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1212| 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. | | c. 1200–c. 1230 | South America [political events] | Manco Capac founds the Inca state in the Cuzco Valley, Peru. | | 1202–1304 | Flanders [civic and commercial buildings] | The Cloth Hall at Ypres, in Flanders (now part of Belgium), one of the finest Gothic secular buildings of the late Middle Ages, is built. It is destroyed in 1915. | | 1212 | France, Germany, Holy Roman Empire [Christianity] | Nicholas, a boy from the Rhineland, Germany, launches the ‘Children's Crusade’ in Cologne, Germany. Thousands of children from France and the Rhineland set out for the Holy Land in the hope of overcoming the Muslims through their faith. Many are sold into slavery, and the rest die on the journey. | | 16 July 1212 | Castile, Spain, Navarre, Aragon [Reconquista of Spain (711–1492)] | The Spanish kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, and Pedro II of Aragon and a few crusaders win a decisive victory over the Almohads at Las Navas de Tolosa. Muslim power in Spain is permanently broken. | | 19 November 1212 | Germany, France, England, Holy Roman Empire [treaties] | By the Treaty of Toul, Frederick II, Duke of Hohenstaufen, King of Sicily, and King Philip II of France make an alliance against King John of England and the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV. |
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