742

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	710s 720s 730s – 740s – 750s 760s 770s
Years:	739 740 741 – 742 – 743 744 745

742 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

Chinese poet Li Po is presented before the emperor and given a position in the Imperial court (approximate date).
Artabasdus is Byzantine Emperor until the capital is stormed by Constantine V, who regains control and resumes the suppression of image-worship.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang begins to favor Taoism over Buddhism, adopting the new reign title Tianbao ('Heavenly Treasures') to indicate his divine mandate.
For the municipal census of the Chinese capital city Chang'an and its metropolitan area of Jingzhou Fu (including small towns in the vicinity), the New Book of Tang records that in this year there are 362,921 registered families with 1,960,188 persons.
In China, the total number of enlisted troops in the Tang armies has risen to about half a million due to Emperor Xuanzong's earlier reforms.
China's population reaches approximately 50 million.

Liutprand, King of the Lombards, absorbs the independent duchies of Spoleto and Benevento into his kingdom.

Saint Sturm establishes the abbey of Fulda. (or 744?)
After a forty-year vacancy, Stephen becomes Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch at the suggestion of Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.
Chrodegang, chancellor of Charles Martel, is appointed bishop of Metz and embarks on a reorganisation of the Frankish church.