1320s

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1290s 1300s 1310s – 1320s – 1330s 1340s 1350s
Years:	1320 1321 1322 1323 1324 1325 1326 1327 1328 1329
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

1320s: events by year

Contents: 1320 1321 1322 1323 1324 1325 1326 1327 1328 1329

January–December

• January 20 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
• April 6 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.

Date unknown

• 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.
• In England many horses die of a disease called "Ffarsine".

January–December

• March 10 – Battle of Burton Bridge:Part of the Despenser War
• March 16 – Battle of Boroughbridge: Edward II of England defeats several rebellious barons.
• June 24 Jews are expelled from France for third time
• September 28 – Battle of Mühldorf: Bavaria defeats Austria.
• October 14 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland

January–December

• August 12 – The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and the Novgorod Republic (Russia) is signed, regulating the border for the first time.
• October 24–October 30 – Edward II of England stays at Liverpool Castle.

Date unknown

• Thomas Aquinas is canonised.
• Lithuania: In the Letters of Gediminas, Vilnius is named as the capital city.
• Remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) are toppled by a series of earthquakes.
• Conflict between Ingeborg of Norway and the regencies of her son in Sweden and Norway, which ends with the deminission of her power.

Date unknown

• Defensor pacis is published by Marsilius of Padua.
• Emperor Kankan Musa I of the Mali Empire arrives in Cairo on his hajj to Mecca, accompanied by an entourage numbering in the thousands and hundreds of pounds of gold. This fantastic display of wealth garners Mali a place on European maps in 1395.

January–December

• January 7 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
• March 13 – Recognized date for the founding of Tenochtitlan on a small island in Lake Texcoco by the Mexica empire at the dawn of the day. The Aztec capital becomes Mexico City in 1521.
• November 15 – Battle of Zappolino: Modena defeats Bologna.

Date unknown

• Volodimir of Halych, last king of Rus (Halych-Volyn Rus) of Romanovichi dynasty, is removed from the throne by his boyars. End of 126 years of the Romanovichi rule in Halych-Volyn
• Muhammad bin Tughluq succeeds his father Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq as Sultan of Delhi.
• Ibn Battuta begins his travels.
• Mansa Musa completes his pilgrimage to Mecca.

January–December

• June 3 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates the border between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• October – Ibn Battuta reaches Mecca.

Date unknown

• Orhan I succeeds Osman I on the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
• The use of the word "cannon" is first recorded in reference to a firearm.
• The foundation of Oriel College, Oxford, the University of Oxford's fifth oldest college, is confirmed by royal charter.
• Formation of the University of Cambridge's second oldest (still surviving) college, Clare College, Cambridge.
• Ingeborg of Norway is deposed from political power in Sweden, and the following year also in Norway.
• A peasant revolt breaks out in Flanders.

January–December

• January 20 – Edward II is deposed by his wife Isabella
• February 1 – Edward III becomes King of England.
• April 6 – Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of poems dedicated to her, which are collected into his Canzoniere ("Song Book"). This is generally considered to be the day the Renaissance began.
• November – Alfonso IV of Aragon begins his reign.

January–December

• May 1 – Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton: England recognises Scotland as an independent nation after the Wars of Scottish Independence.
• May 12 – Nicholas V is consecrated at St Peter's Basilica in Rome by the bishop of Venice.
• May 26 – William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
• May 27 – King Philip VI of France is crowned, founding the Valois Dynasty after the death of King Charles IV of France, who has no sons to inherit.
• August 23 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.

Date unknown

• The Augustiner brewery in Munich is established.

January–December

• February 18 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces (possibly in 1332).
• March 27 – Pope John XXII condemns some teachings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
• April – Antipope Nicholas V is excommunicated by Pope John XXII.
• June 7 – David II becomes King of Scotland.
• June 10 – Braganstown massacre, County Louth, Ireland: over 160 killed.
• June 11 – Ottoman Turks defeat Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Maltepe (Pelekanon)

Date unknown

• Aimone of Savoy becomes Count of Savoy.
• Construction begins on the cathedral of Frombork, Poland.
• Amberg, Germany passes to the Wittelsbach family.
• Michael of Cesena is deposed as General of the Franciscans.
• Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia defeats the Bosnian ban Stephen II Kotromanić.
• Wiesbaden is granted the right of coinage by Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
• Edward III of England pays homage to Philip VI of France for Aquitaine.