1042

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1042 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1042
MXLII
Ab urbe condita 1795
Armenian calendar 491
ԹՎ ՆՂԱ
Assyrian calendar 5792
Balinese saka calendar 963–964
Bengali calendar 449
Berber calendar 1992
English Regnal year N/A
Buddhist calendar 1586
Burmese calendar 404
Byzantine calendar 6550–6551
Chinese calendar 辛巳年 (Metal  Snake)
3739 or 3532
     to 
壬午年 (Water  Horse)
3740 or 3533
Coptic calendar 758–759
Discordian calendar 2208
Ethiopian calendar 1034–1035
Hebrew calendar 4802–4803
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1098–1099
 - Shaka Samvat 963–964
 - Kali Yuga 4142–4143
Holocene calendar 11042
Igbo calendar 42–43
Iranian calendar 420–421
Islamic calendar 433–434
Japanese calendar Chōkyū 3
(長久3年)
Javanese calendar 945–946
Julian calendar 1042
MXLII
Korean calendar 3375
Minguo calendar 870 before ROC
民前870年
Nanakshahi calendar −426
Seleucid era 1353/1354 AG
Thai solar calendar 1584–1585
Tibetan calendar 阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
1168 or 787 or 15
     to 
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
1169 or 788 or 16
Christ Pantocrator flanked by Empress Zoe and Emperor Constantine IX (left). Empress Zoe mosaic Hagia Sophia.jpg
Christ Pantocrator flanked by Empress Zoë and Emperor Constantine IX (left).

Year 1042 ( MXLII ) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Byzantine Empire

  • April 19 Emperor Michael V Kalaphates banishes his adoptive mother and co-ruler Zoë, for plotting to poison him, to the island of Principo. His announcement as sole emperor leads to a popular revolt.
  • April 20 Zoë is proclaimed as empress at an assembly in Hagia Sophia, along with her sister Theodora, as co-ruler. Michael V flees to the monastery of Stoudios, but is arrested, blinded and castrated.
  • Zoë recalls Synodianos, governor of the Catepanate of Italy, and replaces him with George Maniakes (the disgraced head of the Sicilian campaign). All of Apulia is in the hands of the Lombard rebels.
  • June 11 Zoë marries her third husband, a Byzantine bureaucrat who ascends as co-emperor Constantine IX at Constantinople. Theodora agrees to surrender her co-emperorship.
  • Summer George Maniakes goes on a march through Apulia, plundering the towns that have declared for the Lombard rebels. Constantine IX recalls Maniakes to Constantinople.
  • George Maniakes revolts against Constantine IX and is declared emperor by his troops. He captures Pardos who has landed with an army at Otranto to take over his command.
  • Byzantine–Arab War: The Byzantines reconquer the fortress city of Edessa (modern Turkey), returning it to Christian hands, after 400 years of Islamic rule (approximate date).
  • Duklja secures its independence from the Byzantine Empire.

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References

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  2. "The Chronicle of Novgorod" (PDF). London Offices of the Society. 1914. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022.