1142

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades: 1110s  1120s  1130s  – 1140s –  1150s  1160s  1170s
Years: 1139 1140 1141 – 1142 – 1143 1144 1145

Year 1142 (MCXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

  • When it was unable to feed its population during a famine, the emir of the great commercial center of Mahdia has to recognize the de facto protectorate of Roger II of Sicily.[1]
  • Failed Norman raid against the city of Tripoli.[2]

Asia

  • Emperor Konoe succeeds Emperor Sutoku on the throne of Japan.

Europe

  • 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.


Births

  • Farid od-Din Mohammad ebn Ebrahim 'Attar, Persian mystical poet (d. 1220)
  • Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1192)

Deaths

  • January 27 – Yue Fei, Chinese military leader (b. 1103)
  • April 21 – Pierre Abélard, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1079)
  • Orderic Vitalis, English chronicler (b. 1075)

References

  1. ↑ Abulafia, David (1985). The Norman kingdom of Africa and the Norman expeditions to Majorca and the Muslim Mediterranean. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-416-6.
  2. ↑ Bresc, Henri (2003). "La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age" (PDF). Retrieved January 17, 2012. {cite journal}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)