This article is about the year 1442.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
Decades: | 1410s 1420s 1430s – 1440s – 1450s 1460s 1470s |
Years: | 1439 1440 1441 – 1442 – 1443 1444 1445 |
1442 by topic |
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Arts and science |
Architecture - Art |
Politics |
State leaders - Sovereign states |
Birth and death categories |
Births - Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments - Disestablishments |
Art and literature |
1442 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1442 MCDXLII |
Ab urbe condita | 2195 |
Armenian calendar | 891 ԹՎ ՊՂԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6192 |
Bengali calendar | 849 |
Berber calendar | 2392 |
English Regnal year | 20 Hen. 6 – 21 Hen. 6 |
Buddhist calendar | 1986 |
Burmese calendar | 804 |
Byzantine calendar | 6950–6951 |
Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4138 or 4078 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4139 or 4079 |
Coptic calendar | 1158–1159 |
Discordian calendar | 2608 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1434–1435 |
Hebrew calendar | 5202–5203 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1498–1499 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1364–1365 |
- Kali Yuga | 4543–4544 |
Holocene calendar | 11442 |
Igbo calendar | 442–443 |
Iranian calendar | 820–821 |
Islamic calendar | 845–846 |
Japanese calendar | Kakitsu 2 (嘉吉2年) |
Julian calendar | 1442 MCDXLII |
Korean calendar | 3775 |
Minguo calendar | 470 before ROC 民前470年 |
Thai solar calendar | 1984–1985 |
Year 1442 (MCDXLII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- March 18–25 – Battle of Hermannstadt: John Hunyadi defeats an army of the Ottoman Empire 80,000 strong, led by Mesid Bey of Vidin, near Sibiu in Transylvania.
- June 2 – Alfonso of Aragon proclaimed himself King of Naples.
Date unknown
- The community of Rauma, Finland is granted its town rights.
- The municipality of Juva, Finland is founded.
- Vlad II Dracul is temporarily replaced as ruler of Wallachia by his son Mircea.
- A fourth tower is added to Liverpool Castle.
- Jelena Balšić completes writing the Gorički zbornik manuscripts at her church of St. Mary on the island of Beška in the Serbian Despotate.
Births
- April 13 – Henry IV of Neuhaus, High Treasurer of Bohemia (1485–1503), Burgrave of Prague Castle (1503–1507) (d. 1507)
- April 15 – John Paston, English noble (d. 1479)
- April 28 – King Edward IV of England, King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470 (d. 1483)
- July 3 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
- July 15 – Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman, eldest son of King George of Podebrady (d. 1496)
- September 8 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford (d. 1513)
- September 27 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (d. 1491)
- date unknown
- Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian archbishop (d. 1521)
- Vannozza dei Cattanei, mistress of Pope Alexander VI
- probable – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (d. 1483)
Deaths
- August 29 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
- October 18 – Infante João of Portugal (b. 1400)
- December 18 – Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371)
- December 26 – Niccolò III d'Este, Marquess of Ferrara (b. 1383)
- date unknown
- Al-Maqrizi, Arab historian
- Ahmed Shah, Sultan of Gujarat