1042

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1010s  1020s  1030s  – 1040s –  1050s  1060s  1070s
Years:	1039 1040 1041 – 1042 – 1043 1044 1045

1042 by topic

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State leaders

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Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1042 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1042 MXLII
Ab urbe condita	1795
Armenian calendar	491 ԹՎ ՆՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	5792
Bengali calendar	449
Berber calendar	1992
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1586
Burmese calendar	404
Byzantine calendar	6550–6551
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3738 or 3678     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3739 or 3679
Coptic calendar	758–759
Discordian calendar	2208
Ethiopian calendar	1034–1035
Hebrew calendar	4802–4803
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1098–1099
- Shaka Samvat	964–965
- Kali Yuga	4143–4144
Holocene calendar	11042
Igbo calendar	42–43
Iranian calendar	420–421
Islamic calendar	433–434
Japanese calendar	Chōkyū 3 (長久３年)
Julian calendar	1042 MXLII
Korean calendar	3375
Minguo calendar	870 before ROC 民前870年
Seleucid era	1353/1354 AG
Thai solar calendar	1584–1585

Year 1042 (MXLII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• April 18 or April 19 – Emperor Michael V of the Byzantine Empire attempts to remain sole Emperor by sending his adoptive mother and co-ruler Zoe of Byzantium to a monastery.
• April 19 – Michael V of the Byzantine Empire is deposed by popular revolt. Zoe, Empress of the Byzantine Empire with co-rulers since 1028, becomes reigning Empress with her sister Theodora.
• June 8 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England.
• June 11 – Empress Zoe marries for the third time and elevates her husband to the throne as Constantine IX.
• George Maniaces, Byzantine general in Sicily, revolts against Constantine IX.
• Harald III of Norway, at this time leader of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire, returns to Norway, possibly because of his involvement in Maniaces' revolt.
• Magnus I of Norway becomes King of Denmark.
• The Normans in Italy move their capital to Melfi.
• Abad II succeeds his father to the throne of Sevilla.
• Incursions by the Western Xia and the threat of further Liao Dynasty military actions against the Song Dynasty force an increase in tribute payments to the Liao.
• The Almoravids, led by Abdullah Ibn Yasin, invade Morocco.
• Byzantine-Arab Wars: The Byzantines conquer Edessa, returning to Christian hands after 400 years of Islamic rule.

Births

• Pope Urban II (d. 1099)

Deaths

• June 8 – Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England
• August 24 – Michael V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1015)

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