1120
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1090s 1100s 1110s – 1120s – 1130s 1140s 1150s |
| Years: | 1117 1118 1119 – 1120 – 1121 1122 1123 |
| 1120 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1120 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1120 MCXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1873 |
| Armenian calendar | 569 ԹՎ ՇԿԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -724 – -723 |
| Bengali calendar | 527 |
| Berber calendar | 2070 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1664 |
| Burmese calendar | 482 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6628 – 6629 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年十一月廿九日 (3756/3816-11-29) — to —
庚子年十二月初十日(3757/3817-12-10) |
| Coptic calendar | 836 – 837 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1112 – 1113 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4880 – 4881 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1176 – 1177 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1042 – 1043 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4221 – 4222 |
| Holocene calendar | 11120 |
| Iranian calendar | 498 – 499 |
| Islamic calendar | 513 – 514 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3453 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1663 |
Events
- January 16—The Council of Nablus is held in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Jurchen translation of the Chinese couplet, Ming wang shen de, si yi xian bin ("明王慎德.四夷咸宾": "When a wise king is heedful of virtue, foreigners from all quarters come as guests")
- August–September (the eighth month of the Chinese calendar)—Wanyan Xiyin completes the design of the first version of the Jurchen script
- November 25—The White Ship is wrecked in the English Channel, resulting in the death of the son of King Henry I of England.
- Walcher of Malvern creates a system of measurement for the earth using degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude.
- Construction begins on Llandaff Cathedral in Wales.
- The Song Dynasty governor of the bustling seaport of Quanzhou, Fujian, China, reports that the population of his city has reached 500,000 residents.
- The Jin capture Kaifeng, capital of the Song Dynasty.
- Fondation of Freiburg in Breisgau.
Births
- November 28—Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
- Ioveta of Bethany, daughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem
- Louis VII of France (d. 1180)
Deaths
- November 25—William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (sinking of the White Ship) (b. 1103)
- Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (b. 1094)