942

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	910s 920s 930s – 940s – 950s 960s 970s
Years:	939 940 941 – 942 – 943 944 945

942 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

942 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	942 CMXLII
Ab urbe condita	1695
Armenian calendar	391 ԹՎ ՅՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	5692
Bengali calendar	349
Berber calendar	1892
Buddhist calendar	1486
Burmese calendar	304
Byzantine calendar	6450–6451
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3638 or 3578 — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3639 or 3579
Coptic calendar	658–659
Discordian calendar	2108
Ethiopian calendar	934–935
Hebrew calendar	4702–4703
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	998–999
- Shaka Samvat	864–865
- Kali Yuga	4043–4044
Holocene calendar	10942
Iranian calendar	320–321
Islamic calendar	330–331
Japanese calendar	Tengyō 5 (天慶５年)
Julian calendar	942 CMXLII
Korean calendar	3275
Minguo calendar	970 before ROC 民前970年
Seleucid era	1253/1254 AG
Thai solar calendar	1484–1485

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

Events

Kaminarimon, the eight-pillared gate to Japan's Kinryuzan Sensouji Temple, is erected.
The Chavda Kingdom is overthrown in Gujarat, India.

December 17 – William I, Duke of Normandy, is ambushed by supporters of Arnulf I, Count of Flanders while the two are at a peace conference to settle their differences.
Hywel Dda, king of Deheubarth, annexes Gwynedd and Powys to become ruler of most of Wales.
A Hungarian army attacks the Arabic Spain. They besiege the cities of Lerida, Cerdagna, Huesca, than they capture Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn al Tawil, the ruler of the town Barbastro.