1342

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The year 1342 is a common year starting on a Tuesday.

Events

May-June: arrival in Beijing by Caffa, Sarai and Almaligh of the Franciscan legate of Pope John of Marignol (end in 1347).
August 19: Jean de Marignol is received in court by the great Khan Toghan Tèmur.
October: Coronation of Constantine IV of Armenia. The Hetoumian dynasty was extinguished in Armenian Cilicia, for lack of male heir, upon the death of Leo V. Guy of Lusignan, son of the sister of King Hethium II, Zabel, and of Amaury, brother of the king of Cyprus Henry II, ascended to the throne under the name of Constantine IV of Armenia. Guy de Lusignan will be murdered by Armenians, hostile to the installation of the Catholic Church in the country (1344). Léon VI, his nephew, will succeed him (1374).

The Muslim Bengal was independent (end of 1576). It establishes diplomatic relations with China. The port of Chittagong becomes an important trading centre with the Far East.
The Tenryūji-bune, two ships chartered by the Tenryū-ji, a Kyoto temple, traveled to China. Trade relations between Japan and China are almost officially resumed.

In Japan, publications began by the monasteries of the Five Mountains.

Europe

22 January:
Pierre (1311-1356) became Duke of Bourbon.
Jacques (1314-1362) became Count of the Marche.
Mid-May: seat and take of Rennes by Charles de Blois. Bertrand du Guesclin began his military career in the service of Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany.
May 19: Peter Roger, former bishop of Rouen became pope under the name of Clement VI (end of the pontificate in 1352). He developed to the extreme centralization and pontifical taxation.

May 20: An English expedition landed in Brest led by Wauthier de Masny. In June, she helped Jeanne of Flanders besieged by Charles de Blois in Hennebont
June:
lift of the seat of Hennebont.
Byzantine Empire: Beginning of the Zelot revolution in Thessaloniki, which massacred the nobles (1345) and formed a popular government that supported John V Paleologist and the regent empress (end 1349). Similar uprisings against the aristocracy are taking place in Verria and Andrinople.
July 6: Lucca is conquered by Pisa.
July 21st: The reign of Louis of Anjou, the Great King of Hungary (until 1382).
14 August: Robert III of Artois arrived in Brittany at the head of English troops.
8 September: dictatorship of Gautier VI de Brienne in Florence (end 1343).
September 15th: Louis was crowned king of Sicily at Palermo at the age of five. Joint regency of his mother Elizabeth de Carinthia and his uncle Jean de Randazzo.
17 - 23 October, War of Succession of Brittany: landing of King Edward III of England at Brest. He seats Vannes.

Krach of Florentine banking companies (1342-1346). The Dell'Antella, Cocchi, Perondali, Bonaccorsi, Corsini, Da Uzzano and Castellani went bankrupt in 1342