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1214| 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. | | 27 July 1214 | England, Holy Roman Empire, France, Flanders [wars] | King John of England's allies, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV and the Flemings, are decisively defeated by King Philip II of France at Bouvines, Flanders. By capturing the counts of Flanders and Boulogne, Philip establishes French control there; John is forced to abandon his campaign to recover his French lands; and Otto's cause in the Holy Roman Empire suffers a fatal blow. | | 10 October 1214 | Castile, Spain [political events] | King Alfonso VIII of Castile dies; he is succeeded by his son, Henry I, a minor; civil war follows. | | 15 October 1214 | England [political events] | King John arrives back in England from France to face growing baronial discontent with his demands for money to fund his unsuccessful campaigns. |
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