AD 442

"442 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 442 BC.

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	420s 430s 440s 450s 460s
Years:	439 440 441 442 443 444 445
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442 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 442
CDXLII

Ab urbe condita 1195

Assyrian calendar 5192

Balinese saka calendar 363–364

Bengali calendar −152 – −151

Berber calendar 1392

Buddhist calendar 986

Burmese calendar −196

Byzantine calendar 5950–5951

Chinese calendar 辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
3139 or 2932
— to —
壬午年 (Water Horse)
3140 or 2933

Coptic calendar 158–159

Discordian calendar 1608

Ethiopian calendar 434–435

Hebrew calendar 4202–4203

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 498–499

- Shaka Samvat 363–364

- Kali Yuga 3542–3543

Holocene calendar 10442

Iranian calendar 180 BP – 179 BP

Islamic calendar 186 BH – 185 BH

Javanese calendar 326–327

Julian calendar 442
CDXLII

Korean calendar 2775

Minguo calendar 1470 before ROC
民前1470年

Nanakshahi calendar −1026

Seleucid era 753/754 AG

Thai solar calendar 984–985

Tibetan calendar 阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
568 or 187 or −585
— to —
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
569 or 188 or −584

Year 442 (CDXLII ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dioscorus and Eudoxius (or, less frequently, year 1195 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 442 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Europe

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Valentinian III forms a marriage proposal for his eldest daughter Eudocia and Genseric's son Huneric. He is already married to a Visigoth princess, and Genseric decides to free him of his obligations by accusing her of trying to poison him. He leaves her mutilated - her ears and nose are cut off - and sends her back to her father Theodoric I, in Toulouse (Gaul).^{[citation needed ]}
The Huns, on a military campaign along the Danube and the Great Morava, destroy the city of Naissus (modern Serbia). They have mastered siege technology and are able to capture fortified cities. The Roman Senate agrees to pay Attila a tribute of 700 pounds of gold per year.

Africa

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End of the Vandal War (439-442): Emperor Valentinian III signs a peace treaty with King Genseric, and recognises the Vandal Kingdom. He grants him sovereignty over most of Africa. Genseric gives back Sicily and Mauretania (Algeria and Morocco). This marks the end of the Vandal migrations; they settle in North Africa, with Carthage as their capital.