1320

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Centuries:	13th century - 14th century - 15th century
Decades:	1290s  1300s  1310s  - 1320s -  1330s  1340s  1350s
Years:	1317 1318 1319 - 1320 - 1321 1322 1323

1320 in topic:

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Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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

[edit] Events of 1320

• January 20 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
• April 6 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
• 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.

1320 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1320 MCCCXX
Ab urbe condita	2073
Armenian calendar	769 ԹՎ ՉԿԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-524 – -523
Berber calendar	2270
Buddhist calendar	1864
Burmese calendar	682
Chinese calendar	3956/4016-11-21 (己未年十一月廿一日) — to — 3957/4017-12-2 (庚申年十二月初二日)
Coptic calendar	1036 – 1037
Ethiopian calendar	1312 – 1313
Hebrew calendar	5080 – 5081
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1375 – 1376
- Shaka Samvat	1242 – 1243
- Kali Yuga	4421 – 4422
Holocene calendar	11320
Iranian calendar	698 – 699
Islamic calendar	719 – 720
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3653
Thai solar calendar	1863
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[edit] 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. 1292)
  • 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, Grand Khan of the Mongol Empire (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)

Also see Category:1320 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 12 - John Dalderby, Bishop of Lincoln
• January 21 - Árni Helgason, Icelandic bishop (born c. 1260)
• March 1 - Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Emperor Renzong of Yuan (born 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)
  • Jan Muskata, Bishop of Krakow (b. 1250)
  • 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
• Li Kan, a famous artist

Also see Category:1320 deaths.