1320

Year 1320 (MCCCXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1300s 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s
Years:	1317 1318 1319 1320 1321 1322 1323

1320 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1320 MCCCXX
Ab urbe condita	2073
Armenian calendar	769 ԹՎ ՉԿԹ
Assyrian calendar	6070
Balinese saka calendar	1241–1242
Bengali calendar	727
Berber calendar	2270
English Regnal year	13 Edw. 2 – 14 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar	1864
Burmese calendar	682
Byzantine calendar	6828–6829
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 4016 or 3956     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4017 or 3957
Coptic calendar	1036–1037
Discordian calendar	2486
Ethiopian calendar	1312–1313
Hebrew calendar	5080–5081
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1376–1377
- Shaka Samvat	1241–1242
- Kali Yuga	4420–4421
Holocene calendar	11320
Igbo calendar	320–321
Iranian calendar	698–699
Islamic calendar	719–720
Japanese calendar	Gen'ō 2 (元応２年)
Javanese calendar	1231–1232
Julian calendar	1320 MCCCXX
Korean calendar	3653
Minguo calendar	592 before ROC 民前592年
Nanakshahi calendar	−148
Thai solar calendar	1862–1863
Tibetan calendar	阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1446 or 1065 or 293     — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1447 or 1066 or 294

Events

January–December

• January 20 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
• April 6 – The Scots reaffirm their independence, by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
• September 9 – Battle of Saint George: The Byzantines under Andronikos Asen ambush and defeat the forces of the Principality of Achaea, securing possession of Arcadia.

Date unknown

• Ghiyas al-Din Tughlaq founds the Tughlaq Dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
• The Venetian Arsenal is rebuilt, as the Arsenal Nuovo.
• The Second Shepherds' Crusade begins.
• Dante's Quaestio de Aqua et Terra is published.
• In England, many horses die of a disease called "Ffarsine".[1]
• The Byzantine governor in the Morea, Andronikos Asen, captures the Frankish castles of Akova, Karytaina and St. George, securing control over Arcadia and Cynuria.

Births

• April 8 – King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
• date unknown
  • Blanka of Namur, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1363)
  • Chen Youliang, founder of the Great Han regime (d. 1363)
  • John Hawkwood, English mercenary (d. 1394)
  • Iolo Goch, Welsh poet (d. 1398)
  • Shams al-Dīn Abū Abd Allāh al-Khalīlī, Arab astronomer (d. 1380)
  • Lalleshwari, Hindu poet (d. 1392)
  • Louis of Taranto (d. 1362)
  • Michael Panaretos, chronicler of Trebizond (d. 1390)
  • Nissim of Gerona, Talmudist and authority in Jewish law (d. 1380)
  • Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1398)
  • Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1346)
  • Ukhaantu Khan, Emperor Huizong of Yuan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (d. 1370)
  • William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester (d. 1404)
• probable
  • Bertrand du Guesclin, Breton knight (d. 1380)
  • King Valdemar IV of Denmark (d. 1375)
  • John Wycliffe, English reformer (d. 1384)
• approximate date
  • Turisanus, Florentine physician

Deaths

• January 12 – John Dalderby, Bishop of Lincoln
• January 21 – Árni Helgason, Icelandic bishop (b. c. 1260)
• February 7 – Jan Muskata, Bishop of Kraków (b. 1250)
• March 1 – Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Emperor Renzong of Yuan (b. 1286)
• May 29 – Pope John VIII of Alexandria, Coptic pope
• July 20 – King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
• October 12 – Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine co-emperor (b. 1277)
• October 31 – Ricold of Monte Croce, Italian Dominican missionary (b. 1242)
• date unknown
  • Blessed Margaret of Castello, patron of the poor, crippled, and unwanted (b. 1287)
  • Qutb ud din Mubarak Shah, last Khilji ruler of India
  • Radulphus Brito, French grammarian
  • Filippo Tesauro, Italian painter (b. 1260)
  • Yasa'ur, Chagatai prince
• probable – Geoffrey of Paris, French chronicler

References

1. Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.