1442
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1410s 1420s 1430s – 1440s – 1450s 1460s 1470s |
| Years: | 1439 1440 1441 – 1442 – 1443 1444 1445 |
| 1442 by topic |
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| State leaders - Sovereign states |
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| 1442 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1442 MCDXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2195 |
| Armenian calendar | 891 ԹՎ ՊՂԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6192 |
| Bengali calendar | 849 |
| Berber calendar | 2392 |
| English Regnal year | 20 Hen. 6 – 21 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1986 |
| Burmese calendar | 804 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6950–6951 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4138 or 4078 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4139 or 4079 |
| Coptic calendar | 1158–1159 |
| Discordian calendar | 2608 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1434–1435 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5202–5203 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1498–1499 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1364–1365 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4543–4544 |
| Holocene calendar | 11442 |
| Igbo calendar | 442–443 |
| Iranian calendar | 820–821 |
| Islamic calendar | 845–846 |
| Japanese calendar | Kakitsu 2 (嘉吉２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1442 MCDXLII |
| Korean calendar | 3775 |
| Minguo calendar | 470 before ROC 民前470年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1984–1985 |
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Year 1442 (MCDXLII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- March 18–25 – Battle of Hermannstadt: John Hunyadi defeats an army of the Ottoman Empire 80,000 strong, led by Mesid Bey of Vidin, near Sibiu in Transylvania.
- June 12 – Alfonso of Aragon is crowned as King of Naples.
Date unknown
- The community of Rauma, Finland is granted its town rights.
- The municipality of Juva, Finland is founded.
- Vlad II Dracul is temporarily replaced as ruler of Wallachia by his son Mircea.
- A fourth tower is added to Liverpool Castle.
- Jelena Balšić completes writing the Gorički zbornik manuscripts at her church of St. Mary on the island of Beška in the Serbian Despotate.
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)
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