Editing 1342 (section)

== Events ==
=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 21]]&ndash;[[June 27]] &ndash; [[An-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt]], rules prior to being deposed by his half-brother [[As-Salih Ismail, Sultan of Egypt|As-Salih Ismail]].
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Pope Clement VI]] succeeds [[Pope Benedict XII]], as the 198th [[Pope]].
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Louis I of Hungary|Louis I]] becomes king of [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]].
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Battle of Zava]]: Mu'izz al-Din Husayn defeats the [[Sarbadars]].
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[St. Mary Magdalene's flood]] is the worst such event on record for central Europe.<ref>{{Citation| title =Das verflixte "Genua-Tief"| publisher =[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]]| date =2008-08-25| url =http://www.nzz.ch/2005/08/25/il/articleD31CG.html| access-date =2016-02-12| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20111230134322/http://www.nzz.ch/2005/08/25/il/articleD31CG.html| archive-date =2011-12-30}}</ref>
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Louis, King of Sicily|Louis "the Child"]], age 4, succeeds his father, [[Peter II of Sicily|Peter II]], as king of [[Sicily]] and [[Duchy of Athens|duke of Athens]]; he is crowned on September 15 in [[Palermo Cathedral]].
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[John III of Trebizond]] (John III Comnenus) becomes [[Empire of Trebizond|emperor of Trebizond]].

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* Guy de Lusignan becomes [[Constantine II, King of Armenia]] (Gosdantin, Կոստանդին Բ).
* The [[List of Greek Orthodox patriarchs of Antioch|Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch]] is transferred to [[Damascus]], under Ignatius II.
* [[Kitzbühel]] becomes part of [[German Tyrol|Tyrol]].
* [[Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347]] &ndash; The [[Zealots of Thessalonica|Zealots]] seize power in [[Thessalonica]], expelling its aristocrats and declaring themselves in favour of the regency.