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Gregorian calendar | 1542 MDXLII |
Ab urbe condita | 2295 |
Armenian calendar | 991 ԹՎ ՋՂԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6292 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1463–1464 |
Bengali calendar | 949 |
Berber calendar | 2492 |
English Regnal year | 33 Hen. 8 – 34 Hen. 8 |
Buddhist calendar | 2086 |
Burmese calendar | 904 |
Byzantine calendar | 7050–7051 |
Chinese calendar | 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4239 or 4032 — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4240 or 4033 |
Coptic calendar | 1258–1259 |
Discordian calendar | 2708 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1534–1535 |
Hebrew calendar | 5302–5303 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1598–1599 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1463–1464 |
- Kali Yuga | 4642–4643 |
Holocene calendar | 11542 |
Igbo calendar | 542–543 |
Iranian calendar | 920–921 |
Islamic calendar | 948–949 |
Japanese calendar | Tenbun11 (天文11年) |
Javanese calendar | 1460–1461 |
Julian calendar | 1542 MDXLII |
Korean calendar | 3875 |
Minguo calendar | 370 before ROC 民前370年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 74 |
Thai solar calendar | 2084–2085 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1668 or 1287 or 515 — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1669 or 1288 or 516 |
Year 1542 (MDXLII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi's men were reinforced by 2900 arquebusiers (2000 from Arabia plus 900 regular Ottoman infantry) and a handful of Ottoman cavalry. Although da Gama managed to escape with a few survivors, he was quickly captured and killed.
On 14 December 1542, James V died in his splendid royal bedchamber at Falkland, the beauty he himself had created no longer enough to pierce the malaise of his profound melancholy. His sole surviving child, Mary, succeeded to the throne.