1442

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

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

1442 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1442 MCDXLII
Ab urbe condita	2195
Armenian calendar	891 ԹՎ ՊՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6192
Balinese saka calendar	1363–1364
Bengali calendar	848–849
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) 4139 or 3932     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4140 or 3933
Coptic calendar	1158–1159
Discordian calendar	2608
Ethiopian calendar	1434–1435
Hebrew calendar	5202–5203
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1498–1499
- Shaka Samvat	1363–1364
- Kali Yuga	4542–4543
Holocene calendar	11442
Igbo calendar	442–443
Iranian calendar	820–821
Islamic calendar	845–846
Japanese calendar	Kakitsu 2 (嘉吉２年)
Javanese calendar	1357–1358
Julian calendar	1442 MCDXLII
Korean calendar	3775
Minguo calendar	470 before ROC 民前470年
Nanakshahi calendar	−26
Thai solar calendar	1984–1985
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1568 or 1187 or 415     — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1569 or 1188 or 416

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 2 – Alfonso of Aragon proclaims himself King of Naples.
• September – John Hunyadi defeats another army of the Ottoman Empire (70,000 strong), led by Hadım Şehabeddin, Beylerbey (or governor) of Rumelia, near the Ialomița River. Following this, he places Basarab II as ruler of Wallachia.

Date unknown

• The community of Rauma, Finland is granted its town rights.
• The municipality of Juva, Finland is founded.
• The national law of Kristofers landslag is introduced in Sweden.
• After being imprisoned (before September) by the Sultan, Vlad II Dracul is temporarily replaced, as ruler of Wallachia, by his son Mircea II.
• A fourth tower is added to Liverpool Castle in England.
• Jelena Balšić completes writing the Gorički zbornik manuscripts at her church of St. Mary, on the island of Beška in the Serbian Despotate.
• Portuguese sailors first arrive at the Senegal River.

Births

• April 13 – Henry IV of Neuhaus, High Treasurer of Bohemia (1485–1503), Burgrave of Prague Castle (1503–1507) (d. 1507)
• April 15 – John Paston, English noble (d. 1479)
• April 28 – King Edward IV of England, King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 to 3 October 1480 (d. 1483)
• July 3 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
• July 15 – Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman, eldest son of King George of Podebrady (d. 1496)
• September 8 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford (d. 1513)
• September 27 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (d. 1492)
• date unknown
  • Ahmad Zarruq, Moroccan scholar and Sufi sheikh (d. 1493)
  • Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian archbishop (d. 1521)
  • Vannozza dei Cattanei, mistress of Pope Alexander VI

Deaths

• August 29 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
• September 25 – Robert de Morley, 6th Baron Morley, Lord of Morley Saint Botolph (b. 1418)
• October 18 – Infante João of Portugal (b. 1400)
• November 14 – Yolande of Aragon, politically active French noblewoman (b. 1384)
• December 18 – Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371)
• December 19 – Elizabeth of Luxembourg (b. 1409)
• date unknown
  • Al-Maqrizi, Egyptian Arab historian
  • Ahmed Shah, Sultan of Gujarat
  • Nguyễn Trãi, Vietnamese Confucian scholar.