42

This article is about the year 42. For the number, see 42 (number). For other uses, see 42 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s  20s  30s  – 40s –  50s  60s  70s
Years:	39 40 41 – 42 – 43 44 45

42 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

42 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	42 XLII
Ab urbe condita	795
Assyrian calendar	4792
Bengali calendar	−551
Berber calendar	992
Buddhist calendar	586
Burmese calendar	−596
Byzantine calendar	5550–5551
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2738 or 2678     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2739 or 2679
Coptic calendar	−242 – −241
Discordian calendar	1208
Ethiopian calendar	34–35
Hebrew calendar	3802–3803
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	98–99
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3143–3144
Holocene calendar	10042
Iranian calendar	580 BP – 579 BP
Islamic calendar	598 BH – 597 BH
Julian calendar	42 XLII
Korean calendar	2375
Minguo calendar	1870 before ROC 民前1870年
Seleucid era	353/354 AG
Thai solar calendar	584–585

Year 42 (XLII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Piso (or, less frequently, year 795 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 42 for this year has been used since the Early Middle Ages, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By places

Roman Empire

• Consuls are Emperor Claudius and Gaius Caecina Largus.
• Romans take control of Ceuta, a port city on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar.
• The territories of the current Algeria and Morocco become a Roman province.
• The Dalmatian legate, Furius Camillus Scribonianus, revolts but his troops defect and his rebellion quickly withers.
• Claudius begins construction of Portus, a harbour bearing a lighthouse on the right bank of the Tiber.

Asia

• Suro becomes the first king of Geumgwan Gaya in the Korean Peninsula.
• The Chinese General Ma Yuan represses the rebellions of the Trưng Sisters in Tonkin.

By topic

Religion

• 25 January – Conversion of the Apostle Paul to Christianity. The exact date is not provided in texts, but the Roman Catholic Church has chosen to commemorate this date.

Births

• Herennius Philo (approximate date) (d. 141)
• Pope Sixtus I (d. 124)

Deaths

• Arria
• Gaius Appius Junius Silanus