1120

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1090s  1100s  1110s  – 1120s –  1130s  1140s  1150s
Years:	1117 1118 1119 – 1120 – 1121 1122 1123

1120 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1120 in poetry

1120 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1120 MCXX
Ab urbe condita	1873
Armenian calendar	569 ԹՎ ՇԿԹ
Assyrian calendar	5870
Bengali calendar	527
Berber calendar	2070
English Regnal year	20 Hen. 1 – 21 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1664
Burmese calendar	482
Byzantine calendar	6628–6629
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3816 or 3756     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3817 or 3757
Coptic calendar	836–837
Discordian calendar	2286
Ethiopian calendar	1112–1113
Hebrew calendar	4880–4881
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1176–1177
- Shaka Samvat	1042–1043
- Kali Yuga	4221–4222
Holocene calendar	11120
Igbo calendar	120–121
Iranian calendar	498–499
Islamic calendar	513–514
Japanese calendar	Gen'ei 3 / Hōan 1 (保安元年)
Julian calendar	1120 MCXX
Korean calendar	3453
Minguo calendar	792 before ROC 民前792年
Seleucid era	1431/1432 AG
Thai solar calendar	1662–1663

Jurchen translation of the Chinese couplet, Ming wang shen de, si yi xian bin ("明王慎德.四夷咸宾": "When a wise king is heedful of virtue, foreigners from all quarters come as guests")

Year 1120 (MCXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• The Song Dynasty governor of the bustling seaport of Quanzhou, Fujian, China, reports that the population of his city has reached 500,000 residents.
• August–September (the eighth month of the Chinese calendar) – Wanyan Xiyin completes the design of the first version of the Jurchen script

Europe

• January 16 – The Council of Nablus is held in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• June 17 – At the Battle of Cutanda, the Aragonese troops of Alfonso I crush the Almoravid army.^[1]
• November 25 – Sinking of the White Ship in the English Channel off Barfleur. King Henry I of England's only legitimate son, William Adelin, is among 300, many of them Anglo-Norman nobility, who drown.
• Walcher of Malvern creates a system of measurement for the earth using degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude.
• Construction begins on Llandaff Cathedral in Wales.
• Foundation of Freiburg in Breisgau.
• Under admirals Abu Abd Allah ibn Maymum of Almeria and Isa ibn Mayum of Sevilla, the Almoravid fleet attacks the Christian kingdom of Galicia.^[2]
• The Pseudo-Ingulf's Croyland Chronicle records Cornwall as a nation distinct from England.

Births

• Ioveta of Bethany, daughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem
• Louis VII of France (d. 1180)

Deaths

• November 25 – William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (sinking of the White Ship) (b. 1103)
• September 3 – Gerard Thom (The Blessed Gerard), founder of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c. 1040)
• Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (b. 1094)

References

1. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 86.
2. Picard, C. (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.