1320

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

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.

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)

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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
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