1020
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This article is about the year 1020. For the number (and other uses), see 1020 (number).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 990s 1000s 1010s – 1020s – 1030s 1040s 1050s |
| Years: | 1017 1018 1019 – 1020 – 1021 1022 1023 |
| 1020 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1020 MXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1773 |
| Armenian calendar | 469 ԹՎ ՆԿԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5770 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -824–-823 |
| Bengali calendar | 427 |
| Berber calendar | 1970 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1564 |
| Burmese calendar | 382 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6528–6529 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十二月初四日 (3656/3716-12-4) — to —
庚申年十二月十五日(3657/3717-12-15) |
| Coptic calendar | 736–737 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1012–1013 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4780–4781 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1076–1077 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 942–943 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4121–4122 |
| Holocene calendar | 11020 |
| Iranian calendar | 398–399 |
| Islamic calendar | 410–411 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3353 |
| Minguo calendar | 892 before ROC 民前892年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1563 |
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Year 1020 (MXX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- Goryeo and the Liao Dynasty exchange embassies following a seven-year territorial dispute.
- The massive Kandariya Mahadeva Hindu Temple is completed in the Chandela capital of Khajuraho.
[edit] Europe
- The city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is founded.
- Henry II of Germany conducts his third Italian military campaign .
- Canute the Great codifies the laws of England.
[edit] Births
- Harold II of England (approximate)
- Empress Agnes of Poitou, regent of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1077)
- Zhang Zai, Song Dynasty Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher and cosmologist (d. 1077)
- Su Song, famous Song Dynasty Chinese scientist and engineer (d. 1101)
[edit] Deaths
- June 12 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Ferdowsi Tousi, Persian epic poet (b. 935)
- Leif Ericson, Icelandic explorer
- Fan Kuan, Chinese landscape painter
