1942

Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Declarations Establishments - Publications
Media:	1942 (Events)

1942 was a common year of the Gregorian calendar, the 1942nd year of the Common Era (CE), the 42nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1940s decade. 1942 corresponds to the years 98–99 of the Bahá'í Era (BE) according to the Badi calendar.

Events

• October 16: Marion Lord Maxwell becomes the first Jamaican Bahá’í.
• November 16: Manuel Bergés Chupani becomes probably the first Dominican Bahá’í.
• December 18: After receiving government permission to establish a cemetery the National Spiritual Assembly of Egypt transfers the remains of Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl and Lua Getsinger to the new Bahá’í cemetery.

Establishments

First Local Spiritual Assembly of San Salvador, 1942.

Local Spiritual Assemblies

Americas

• Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
• Havana, Cuba.
• San Salvador, El Salvador.
• Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
• Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
• Puebla, Mexico.
• Montevideo, Uruguay.
• Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Australasia

• Caringbah, NSW, Australia.

Asia

• Hyderabad, India.
• Kotah, India.
• Ujjain, India.
• Kirkuk, Iraq.

Deaths

• May 25: Abdu'l-Jalil Bey Sa'd, Egyptian Bahá’í who was posthumously named a Hand of the Cause.
• July 3: Oswald Whitaker, the first Australian Bahá’í.