1120
Calendar year
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")Year 1120 (MCXX ) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
Levant
Europe
England
Asia
Fang La , a Chinese rebel leader, leads an uprising against the Song Dynasty in Qixian Village (modern-day Zhejiang ) in southeast China. He raises an army and captures Hangzhou .
August – September (the eighth month of the Chinese calendar ) – Wanyan Xiyin , a Jurchen nobleman and minister, completes the design of the first version of the Jurchen script .
The flourishing south Chinese coastal city of Quanzhou claims a population of 500,000 citizens, including the hinterland.[ 6]
By topic
Religion
Science
Births
Alfonso of Capua , Italo-Norman nobleman (d. 1144 )
Arnold I of Vaucourt , archbishop of Trier (d. 1183 )
Frederick II of Berg , archbishop of Cologne (d. 1158 )
Fujiwara no Yorinaga , Japanese statesman (d. 1156 )
Gonçalo Mendes de Sousa , Portuguese nobleman (d. 1190 )
Ioveta of Bethany , princess and daughter of Baldwin II
Jaksa Gryfita , Polish nobleman and knight (d. 1176 )
Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon , Arab-Jewish translator
Louis VII (le Jeune ), king of France (d. 1180 )
Philip of Milly , French nobleman and knight (d. 1171 )
Rainald of Dassel , archbishop of Cologne (d. 1167 )
Roger de Mowbray , English nobleman (d. 1188 )
Urban III , pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1187 )
William I ("the Wicked"), king of Sicily (d. 1166 )
Zhao Boju , Chinese landscape painter (d. 1182 )
Deaths
References
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^ John S. Brown (2000). Colombia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture , p. 32. ISBN 0-231-11004-9 .