542
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| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 510s 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s 570s |
| Years: | 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 |
| 542 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 542 DXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1295 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1302 – -1301 |
| Berber calendar | 1492 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1086 |
| Burmese calendar | -96 |
| Chinese calendar | 3178/3238-11-29 (辛酉年十一月廿九日) — to —
3179/3239-12-9(壬戌年十二月初九日) |
| Coptic calendar | 258 – 259 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 534 – 535 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4302 – 4303 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 597 – 598 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 464 – 465 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3643 – 3644 |
| Holocene calendar | 10542 |
| Iranian calendar | 80 BP – 79 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 83 BH – 81 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2875 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1085 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By Place
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- An outbreak of the plague kills at least 230,000 in Constantinople (before they stopped counting) and perhaps two million or more in the rest of the Empire. This was the "Justinianic plague." Emperor Justinian, the renewer of the greatness of Rome's empire and patron of the world's greatest religious building, the Hagia Sophia, contracted the disease and recovered to rule for another twenty years, unlike his enemy the king of Persia, who perished from plague the same winter.
[edit] Europe
- Ostrogoth king Totila reconquers Naples, Benevento, and other parts of Italy.
- Childebert I captures Pamplona and besieges Zaragoza.
