1242
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1210s 1220s 1230s – 1240s – 1250s 1260s 1270s |
| Years: | 1239 1240 1241 – 1242 – 1243 1244 1245 |
| 1242 by topic | |
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| 1242 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1242 MCCXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1995 |
| Armenian calendar | 691 ԹՎ ՈՂԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5992 |
| Bengali calendar | 649 |
| Berber calendar | 2192 |
| English Regnal year | 26 Hen. 3 – 27 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1786 |
| Burmese calendar | 604 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6750–6751 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3938 or 3878 — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3939 or 3879 |
| Coptic calendar | 958–959 |
| Discordian calendar | 2408 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1234–1235 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5002–5003 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1298–1299 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1164–1165 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4343–4344 |
| Holocene calendar | 11242 |
| Igbo calendar | 242–243 |
| Iranian calendar | 620–621 |
| Islamic calendar | 639–640 |
| Japanese calendar | Ninji 3 (仁治３年) |
| Julian calendar | 1242 MCCXLII |
| Korean calendar | 3575 |
| Minguo calendar | 670 before ROC 民前670年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1784–1785 |
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Year 1242 (MCCXLII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Africa
- In Maghrib, after a string of successes against the fast declining Almohads, Abu Zakariya, the first Hafsid ruler of Ifriqiya conquers the Kingdom of Tlemcen.[1]
Asia
- Emperor Go-Saga ascends to the throne of Japan.
- Batu Khan establishes the Golden Horde at Sarai.
- The Mongols invade the Seljuk sultanate.
Europe
- April 5 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
- Cleves, Germany is chartered as a city.
- Kiel, Germany is chartered as a town.
- The archbishop of Wiesbaden conquers the city from the House of Nassau.
- The king Sancho II of Portugal conquers the cities of Tavira, Alvor and Paderne in his continuing effort against the Muslims, known as Reconquista.[2]
- Mongol invasions
- German colonists arrive in Bratislava after the Mongols failed to conquer the city.
- The Mongols of the Golden Horde devastate Volga Bulgaria, and force the nation to pay tribute.
- A French goldsmith working in Budapest named Guillaume Boucher is captured by the Mongols and taken to Karakorum.
- The Golden Bull is issued by King Béla IV to inhabitants of Gradec (today's Zagreb) and Samobor in Croatia, during the Mongol invasion of Europe. By this golden bull King Bela IV proclaim a free royal city.
- Croats stop the Mongolian invasion after the battle of Grobnicko Polje
By topic
Science
- Timeline of medicine and medical technology: Ibn Nafis suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and describes the lesser circulation of blood.
Religion
- The diocese of Warmia, Poland is created.
Births
- July 24 – Blessed Christina von Stommeln, Roman Catholic mystic, ecstatic, and stigmatic (died 1312)
- December 15 – Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (d. 1274)
- date unknown
- Patrick IV, Earl of March (d. 1289)
- George Pachymeres, Byzantine historian
- Beatrice of Castile, wife of King Afonso III of Portugal
- Töregene was the 1st great Khatun of the Mongol empire (d. 1246)
Deaths
- February 10
- Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
- Saint Verdiana, Italian recluse (born 1182)
- March 26 – William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
- July 14 – Hōjō Yasutoki, regent of Japan (b. 1183)
- October 7 – Emperor Juntoku of Japan (b. 1197)
- December 9 – Richard le Gras, Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham
- date unknown
- Archambaud VIII of Bourbon, ruler of Bourbonnais
- Da'ud Abu al-Fadl, Karaite Jewish physician in Egypt (born 1161)
References
- ↑ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.38.
- ↑ Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.