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:
Decades:
Years:
1320 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1320
MCCCXX
Ab urbe condita2073
Armenian calendar769
ԹՎ ՉԿԹ
Assyrian calendar6070
Balinese saka calendar1241–1242
Bengali calendar727
Berber calendar2270
English Regnal year13 Edw. 2  14 Edw. 2
Buddhist calendar1864
Burmese calendar682
Byzantine calendar6828–6829
Chinese calendar己未年 (Earth Goat)
4016 or 3956
     to 
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
4017 or 3957
Coptic calendar1036–1037
Discordian calendar2486
Ethiopian calendar1312–1313
Hebrew calendar5080–5081
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1376–1377
 - Shaka Samvat1241–1242
 - Kali Yuga4420–4421
Holocene calendar11320
Igbo calendar320–321
Iranian calendar698–699
Islamic calendar719–720
Japanese calendarGen'ō 2
(元応2年)
Javanese calendar1231–1232
Julian calendar1320
MCCCXX
Korean calendar3653
Minguo calendar592 before ROC
民前592年
Nanakshahi calendar−148
Thai solar calendar1862–1863
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

JanuaryDecember

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[2]
  • 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.
  2. Childs, Wendy R. (February 3, 2005). Vita Edwardi Secundi. Clarendon Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-19-151530-9.
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