1320

'Years:' 1317 1318 1319 - 1320 - 1321 1322 1323

'Decades:' 1290s 1300s 1310s - '1320s' - 1330s 1340s 1350s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ January 20 - Dante - Quaestio de Aqua et Terra.

★ 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.

★ Second Shepherds' Crusade.

Births

★ April 8 - King Peter I of Portugal (died 1367)

★ John Hawkwood, English mercenary (died 1394)

★ Ukhaatu Khan, Grand Khan of the Mongol Empire (died 1370)

★ Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (died 1346)

★ Emperor Mingzong of Yuan China (died 1329)

★ Nissim of Gerona, talmudist and authority in Jewish law (died 1380)

★ Michael Panaretos, chronicler of Trebizond (died 1390)

★ Louis of Taranto (died 1362)

★ William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester (died 1404)

★ Bertrand du Guesclin, Hundred Years War (died 1380)

Deaths

★ July 11 - Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)

★ July 20 - King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)

★ Geoffrey of Paris, French chronicler

★ Emperor Renzong of Yuan China

★ Farsi, Persian mathematician and physicist (born 1260)