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

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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".
  • 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

    • References

    1320 Wikipedia
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