1142
-End of the reign of Emperor Sutoku, emperor of Japan
-Emperor Konoe ascends to the throne of Japan
-Henry the Lion becomes Duke of Saxony
-The Empress Maud, granted Oakley, Buckinghamshire church, with its chapels of Brill, Boarstall and Addingrove to the monks of St. Frideswide's Priory, in Oxford.
-Possible formation of the Iroquois Confederacy.
..So not a very interesting year then