Year 842 (DCCCXLII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 842nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 842nd year of the 1st millennium, the 42nd year of the 9th century, and the 3rd year of the 840s decade.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
842 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar842
DCCCXLII
Ab urbe condita1595
Armenian calendar291
ԹՎ ՄՂԱ
Assyrian calendar5592
Balinese saka calendar763–764
Bengali calendar249
Berber calendar1792
Buddhist calendar1386
Burmese calendar204
Byzantine calendar6350–6351
Chinese calendar辛酉年 (Metal Rooster)
3539 or 3332
    — to —
壬戌年 (Water Dog)
3540 or 3333
Coptic calendar558–559
Discordian calendar2008
Ethiopian calendar834–835
Hebrew calendar4602–4603
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat898–899
 - Shaka Samvat763–764
 - Kali Yuga3942–3943
Holocene calendar10842
Iranian calendar220–221
Islamic calendar227–228
Japanese calendarJōwa 9
(承和9年)
Javanese calendar739–740
Julian calendar842
DCCCXLII
Korean calendar3175
Minguo calendar1070 before ROC
民前1070年
Nanakshahi calendar−626
Seleucid era1153/1154 AG
Thai solar calendar1384–1385
Tibetan calendar阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
968 or 587 or −185
    — to —
阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
969 or 588 or −184
Empress Theodora with her son Michael III
Greek icon of Theodora (c. 815 – after 867)

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Byzantine Empire

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Europe

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Britain

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Abbasid Caliphate

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Abbasid dinar of al-Mutasim, he became ill and died on 05–01–842

Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ John Skylitzes, A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811—1057: Translation and Notes, transl. John Wortley, 81note114.
  2. ^ Pierre Riche, The Carolingians: The Family who forged Europe, transl. Michael Idomir Allen, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983), p. 162.