1320
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 by topic | |
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| 1320 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1320 MCCCXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2073 |
| Armenian calendar | 769 ԹՎ ՉԿԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6070 |
| 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 | 1242–1243 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4421–4422 |
| Holocene calendar | 11320 |
| Igbo calendar | 320–321 |
| Iranian calendar | 698–699 |
| Islamic calendar | 719–720 |
| Japanese calendar | Gen'ō 2 (元応２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1320 MCCCXX |
| Korean calendar | 3653 |
| Minguo calendar | 592 before ROC 民前592年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1862–1863 |
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Year 1320 (MCCCXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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.
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
- 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