920

This article is about the year 920.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	890s  900s  910s  – 920s –  930s  940s  950s
Years:	917 918 919 – 920 – 921 922 923

920 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

920 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	920 CMXX
Ab urbe condita	1673
Armenian calendar	369 ԹՎ ՅԿԹ
Assyrian calendar	5670
Bahá'í calendar	-924–-923
Bengali calendar	327
Berber calendar	1870
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1464
Burmese calendar	282
Byzantine calendar	6428–6429
Chinese calendar	己卯年十二月初八日 (3556/3616-12-8) — to — 庚辰年十一月十九日 (3557/3617-11-19)
Coptic calendar	636–637
Ethiopian calendar	912–913
Hebrew calendar	4680–4681
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	976–977
- Shaka Samvat	842–843
- Kali Yuga	4021–4022
Holocene calendar	10920
Iranian calendar	298–299
Islamic calendar	307–308
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3253
Minguo calendar	992 before ROC 民前992年
Thai solar calendar	1463

Year 920 (CMXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• The golden age of the Ghana Empire begins in Africa.

Europe

• The Icelandic volcano Katla erupts.
• The Saxons retake East Anglia from the Danes.
• The Welsh ruler Hywel Dda ("Hywel the Good") merges Dyfed and Seisyllwg, establishing a new kingdom known as Deheubarth.
• German king Henry the Fowler conquers Utrecht, which had been in possession of the Vikings for 70 years. The Bishop of Utrecht moves his seat back from Deventer to Utrecht.

Asia

• Abaoji orders the adoption of a written script by the Khitan, resulting in the creation of Khitan "Large Script."

Births

• September 10 – Louis IV of France (d. 954)
• Haakon I of Norway (approximate date; d. 961)
• Dunash ben Labrat, Spanish Jewish commentator (d. 990)