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1179| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. | | 1163–1220 | France [churches and temples] | The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France is constructed. | | 1179 | Central America [wars] | The Toltec city of Chichén Itzá on the Yucatán peninsula of Central America, built entirely on alignments with the rising and setting of the Sun and Venus, is sacked and burnt by the Mayapán king Hunac Ceel. | | 24 June 1179 | Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, Germany [political events] | Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, is put under the ban of the Holy Roman Empire for failing to appear before Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa to answer charges of oppressive rule in Saxony. | | 17 September 1179 | Germany [births and deaths] | Hildegard von Bingen, German Benedictine abbess, philosopher, mystic, and musician, dies in Rupertsberg, near Bingen, Germany (c. 81). |
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