1120
| Years |
|---|
| Millennium |
| 2nd millennium |
| Centuries |
| Decades |
| Years |
| Gregorian calendar | 1120 MCXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1873 |
| Armenian calendar | 569 ԹՎ ՇԿԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5870 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1041–1042 |
| 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 | 1041–1042 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4220–4221 |
| 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) |
| Javanese calendar | 1025–1026 |
| Julian calendar | 1120 MCXX |
| Korean calendar | 3453 |
| Minguo calendar | 792 before ROC 民前792年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −348 |
| Seleucid era | 1431/1432 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1662–1663 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 1246 or 865 or 93 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Rat) 1247 or 866 or 94 |
1120 (MCXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1120th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 120th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 12th century, and the 1st year of the 1120s decade. As of the start of 1120, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
Events
By place
Asia
- The Song Dynasty governor of the seaport of Quanzhou, Fujian, China, reports the population of his city has reached 500,000.
- 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 defeat the Almoravid army.
- November 25 – The White Ship is wrecked in the English Channel, resulting in the death of the son of King Henry I of England.
- 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.
Births
- November 28 – Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
- 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)