1320

Events

• 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)

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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