1342

Events 
 May – Pope Clement VI becomes pope
 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 moved to Damascus while Ignatius II is king
 Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol
 Louis I becomes king of Hungary
 The Vijayanagara Empire is created in South India

 Births 
 January 15 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (died 1404)
 November 10 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (died 1408)
 Leo VI of Armenia
 Avignon Pope Clement VII (died 1394)
 Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (died 1373)
 Julian of Norwich, English mystic (died 1413)

 Deaths 
 January 29 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1279)
 April 24 – Pope Benedict XII
 July 16 – King Charles I of Hungary
 November 29 – Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (born 1270)
 Al-Jaldaki, Persian physician and alchemist
 William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros
 Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (born 1270)