1342: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Events

• May - Pope Clement VI elected
• John III Comnenus becomes emperor of Trebizond
• Louis becomes king of Sicily and duke of Athens
• Constantine IV becomes king of Armenia
• Patriarch of Antioch transferred to Damascus under Ignatius II
• Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol
• Louis I becomes king of Hungary

• January 15 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy
• November 10 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland
• Leo VI of Armenia

• April 24 - Pope Benedict XII
• July 16 - Charles I of Hungary
• November 29 - Michael of Cesena
• Marsilius of Padua
• Margaret de Clare