1142
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| Centuries: | 11th century - 12th century - 13th century |
| Decades: | 1110s 1120s 1130s - 1140s - 1150s 1160s 1170s |
| Years: | 1139 1140 1141 - 1142 - 1143 1144 1145 |
| 1142 by topic | |
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| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Art and literature | |
| 1142 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1142 MCXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1895 |
| Armenian calendar | 591 ԹՎ ՇՂԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -702 – -701 |
| Berber calendar | 2092 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1686 |
| Burmese calendar | 504 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6650 – 6651 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年十二月初三日 (3778/3838-12-3) — to —
壬戌年十二月十三日(3779/3839-12-13) |
| Coptic calendar | 858 – 859 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1134 – 1135 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4902 – 4903 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1197 – 1198 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1064 – 1065 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4243 – 4244 |
| Holocene calendar | 11142 |
| Iranian calendar | 520 – 521 |
| Islamic calendar | 536 – 537 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3475 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1685 |
[edit] Events
- Emperor Konoe succeeds Emperor Sutoku on the throne of Japan.
- Henry the Lion becomes Duke of Saxony.
- The Empress Maud grants Oakley, Buckinghamshire Church, with its chapels of Brill, Boarstall and Addingrove, to the monks of St. Frideswide's Priory, in Oxford.
- August 31 - With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee.
[edit] Births
- Farid od-Din Mohammad ebn Ebrahim 'Attar, Persian mystical poet (d. 1220)
- Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1192)
[edit] Deaths
- January 27 — Yue Fei, Chinese military leader (b. 1103)
- April 21 — Pierre Abélard, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1079)
- date unknown — Orderic Vitalis, English chronicler (b. 1075)
