Year in Japan
1542 in Japanese History
7 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Tenbun 天文 (year 11 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Sep 19 Battle of Azukizaka 第一次小豆坂の戦い · Battle — battle of 1542 in which Oda Nobuhide defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto
- Kuki Yoshitaka 九鬼嘉隆 · Samurai — Naval commander
- Hiraiwa Chikayoshi 平岩親吉 · Samurai — daimyo
- Hōjō Ujiteru 北条氏照 · Samurai — Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period; son of daimyo Hōjō Ujiyasu
- Watanabe Moritsuna 渡辺守綱 · Samurai — samurai
- Nakagawa Kiyohide 中川清秀 · Samurai — daimyo
- Toda Kazuaki 戸田一西 · Samurai — Samurai in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Reading the year 1542 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1542 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 11 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".
The year itself is read 1542年 (1542ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 16th century for its neighbours.