820
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Heads of State
Year of the Metal Rat庚子(at the beginning of Earth Pig己亥)
Era of Diocletian: 536/537 ( year November )
Syria: 1131/32 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- December 25: Leo V is murdered, Michael II is Byzantine Emperor.
Science, Religion and Culture
- Earliest known mention of the Abbey Library of St. Gallen
Born
- Nicholas I, Pope († 867 )
- To 820: Photios I, Patriarch of Constantinople Opel († 891 )
Died
- December 25: Leo V, Byzantine Emperor and general (* 775)
- Remedius, Bishop of Chur
- Ash- Shafi ʿ ī, Islamic scholar (* 767 )
- Tang Xianzong, Chinese Emperor