Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades: 910s  920s  930s  – 940s –  950s  960s  970s
Years: 939 940 941 – 942 – 943 944 945
942 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
942 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 942
CMXLII
Ab urbe condita 1695
Armenian calendar 391
ԹՎ ՅՂԱ
Bahá'í calendar -902 – -901
Bengali calendar 349
Berber calendar 1892
Buddhist calendar 1486
Burmese calendar 304
Byzantine calendar 6450 – 6451
Chinese calendar 辛丑年十二月十二日
(3578/3638-12-12) 壬寅年十一月廿一日
(3579/3639-11-21)
Coptic calendar 658 – 659
Ethiopian calendar 934 – 935
Hebrew calendar 4702 – 4703
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 997 – 998
 - Shaka Samvat 864 – 865
 - Kali Yuga 4043 – 4044
Holocene calendar 10942
Iranian calendar 320 – 321
Islamic calendar 330 – 331
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 3275
Thai solar calendar 1485

Events

By place

Asia

• Kaminarimon, the eight-pillared gate to Japan's Kinryuzan Sensouji Temple, is erected.
• The Chavda Kingdom is overthrown in Gujarat, India.

Europe

• Hywel Dda, king of Deheubarth, annexes Gwynedd to become ruler of most of Wales.

By topic

Religion

• October 30—Pope Marinus II succeeds Pope Stephen VIII as the 128th pope.

Births

• Pampa, Kannada poet in India
• Edgar of England (approximate date)
• Genshin (源信), influential Tendai scholar

Deaths

• Pope Stephen VIII
• King Idwal Foel of Gwynedd
• December 17 – William I of Normandy
• Gaozu of Later Jin, founder of the Later Jin Dynasty in China (b. 892)
• Liu Yan of the Southern Han Kingdom