1120

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.

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")

1120 in other calendars

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

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.^[1]
• 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.^[2]

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)