Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1410s  1420s  1430s  – 1440s –  1450s  1460s  1470s
Years:	1439 1440 1441 – 1442 – 1443 1444 1445

1442 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

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Year 1442 (MCDXLII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1442

• June 12 – Alfonso of Aragon is crowned at Naples.
• The community of Rauma, Finland is granted its town rights.
• The municipality of Juva, Finland was founded.
• Vlad II Dracul is temporarily replaced as ruler of Wallachia by his son Mircea.
• A fourth tower is added to Liverpool Castle.
• Battle of Sibiu: John Huniady defeats an Ottoman army of 80,000 strong, led by Mezid the Bey of Vidin, near Sibiu.

1442 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1442 MCDXLII
Ab urbe condita	2195
Armenian calendar	891 ԹՎ ՊՂԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-402 – -401
Bengali calendar	849
Berber calendar	2392
Buddhist calendar	1986
Burmese calendar	804
Byzantine calendar	6950 – 6951
Chinese calendar	辛酉年閏十一月十九日 (4078/4138-intercalary 11-19) — to — 壬戌年十一月三十日 (4079/4139-11-30)
Coptic calendar	1158 – 1159
Ethiopian calendar	1434 – 1435
Hebrew calendar	5202 – 5203
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1497 – 1498
- Shaka Samvat	1364 – 1365
- Kali Yuga	4543 – 4544
Holocene calendar	11442
Iranian calendar	820 – 821
Islamic calendar	845 – 846
Japanese calendar	Kakitsu 2 (嘉吉2年)
Korean calendar	3775
Thai solar calendar	1985
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[edit] Births

• April 28 – King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
• July 3 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
• 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)

[edit] 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