942

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	920s 930s 940s 950s 960s
Years:	939 940 941 942 943 944 945

942 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	942 CMXLII
Ab urbe condita	1695
Armenian calendar	391 ԹՎ ՅՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	5692
Balinese saka calendar	863–864
Bengali calendar	349
Berber calendar	1892
Buddhist calendar	1486
Burmese calendar	304
Byzantine calendar	6450–6451
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal  Ox) 3639 or 3432     — to — 壬寅年 (Water  Tiger) 3640 or 3433
Coptic calendar	658–659
Discordian calendar	2108
Ethiopian calendar	934–935
Hebrew calendar	4702–4703
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	998–999
- Shaka Samvat	863–864
- Kali Yuga	4042–4043
Holocene calendar	10942
Iranian calendar	320–321
Islamic calendar	330–331
Japanese calendar	Tengyō 5 (天慶５年)
Javanese calendar	842–843
Julian calendar	942 CMXLII
Korean calendar	3275
Minguo calendar	970 before ROC 民前970年
Nanakshahi calendar	−526
Seleucid era	1253/1254 AG
Thai solar calendar	1484–1485
Tibetan calendar	阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1068 or 687 or −85     — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1069 or 688 or −84

Pope Marinus II (r. 942–946)

Year 942 ( CMXLII ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Summer – The Hungarians invade Al-Andalus (modern Spain) and besiege the fortress city of Lerida. They devastate Cerdanya and Huesca, and capture Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn al Tawil, Umayyad governor ( wali ) of the town of Barbastro. Lacking food stores and sufficient forage, the Hungarians retreat to the Gothic March. ^[1]
• Battle of Fraxinet: King Hugh of Provence launches an attack on Fraxinet, the Moorish fortress on the Côté d'Azur that had taken control of the Piedmontese valleys. With the assistance of a Byzantine fleet sent by Emperor Romanos I, Hugh lays siege to the Moorish fortress with the help of Hungarian auxiliary troops (Kabars).
• Fall – Hugh of Provence makes a truce with the Moors of Fraxinet, after hearing the news that a Swabian army is about to descend on Italy. He allows the Moors to attack the Alpine passes for his own political ends in his struggle with Berengar of Ivrea. ^[2] The Byzantines cry foul and end their alliance with Hugh.
• December 17 – William I ("Longsword"), duke of Normandy, is ambushed and assassinated by supporters of Arnulf I ("the Great"), count of Flanders, while the two are at a peace conference at Picquigny (on an island on the Somme) to settle their differences. ^[3] William is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Richard.
• Winter – The Hungarians raid Friuli and descend into central Italy. Hugh of Provence grants them a large sum of tribute if they return to the Gothic March or Spain. The Hungarians refuse the offer and raid the countryside of Lazio, destroying the region of Sabina.

England

• King Edmund I moves with his army north to reconquer the Five Boroughs (the five main towns of Danish Mercia) in modern-day East Midlands from the Norse-Irish king Olaf Sigtryggsson. ^[4]
• Idwal Foel, king of Gwynedd, openly rebels against the overlordship of Edmund I. He and Llywelyn ap Merfyn, king of Pows, are killed fighting the English forces.
• Hywel Dda, king of Deheubarth, annexes Gwynedd and Powys, to become the sole ruler of most of Wales.

Asia

• Mularaja, founder of the Chaulukya Dynasty, supplants the last Chavda ruler, Samanta-Simha, in Gujarat (modern India). He founds an independent kingdom with his capital in Anahilapataka (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

• Fall – Pope Stephen VIII tries to negotiate a peace that will end the feud between Alberic II, de facto ruler of Rome, and Hugh of Provence (his stepfather) but he dies after a 3-year reign. Stephen is succeeded by Marinus II as the 128th pope of the Catholic Church.

Births

• March 7 – Mu'ayyad al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Dynasty (d. 983)
• Fujiwara no Tamemitsu, Japanese statesman (d. 992)
• Genshin, Japanese Tendai scholar (d. 1017)
• Liu Chang, emperor of Southern Han (d. 980)
• Sabuktigin, emir of Ghazna (approximate date)
• Sabur ibn Ardashir, Persian statesman (d. 1025)
• Sŏ Hŭi, Korean politician and diplomat (d. 998)
• Sviatoslav I, Grand Prince of Kiev (approximate date)
• Wang, empress of the Song Dynasty (d. 963)

Deaths

• January 21 – An Chongrong, Chinese general (Five Dynasties)
• February 13 – Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, Abbasid de facto regent
• June 10 – Liu Yan, emperor of Southern Han (b. 889)
• July 28 – Shi Jingtang, emperor of Later Jin (b. 892)
• August 24 – Liu, empress dowager of Later Jin
• November 18 – Odo of Cluny, Frankish abbot
• December 17 – William I, duke of Normandy (b.c. 893)
• An Congjin, Chinese general and governor
• Fulk I, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
• Idwal Foel, king of Gwynedd (Wales)
• Llywelyn ap Merfyn, king of Powys (Wales)
• Pietro Participazio, doge of Venice (Italy)
• Saadia Gaon, Jewish philosopher and exegete
• Stephen VIII, pope of the Catholic Church
• Theobald the Elder, Frankish nobleman (b. 854)
• Wigred, bishop of Chester-le-Street (approximate date)
• Wynsige, bishop of Dorchester (approximate date)

References

1. Martínez Díez, Gonzalo (2005). El condado de Castilla, 711–1038: la historia frente a la leyenda. Marcial Pons Historia. pp. 372–73.
2. Liudprand, V, 16–17; R. Hitchcock, Mozarabs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Franham: Ashgate, 2008), p. 42.
3. David Nicholas, Medieval Flanders (Longman Group UK Limited, London, 1992), p. 40.
4. Edmund I (king of England), "Edmund-I" Encyclopædia Britannica.