1320

Years: 1317 1318 1319 - 1320 - 1321 1322 1323

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

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

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)

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)

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