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

Events

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By area

Africa

• 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.

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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 Ab lard, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1079)
• Orderic Vitalis, English chronicler (b. 1075)

References

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