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1224| 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. | | 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. | | 1224 | Sicily [births and deaths] | St Thomas Aquinas (‘Doctor Angelicus’), Italian Dominican theologian, outstanding medieval scholasticist, author of Summa theologiae/Summary of Theology and Summa contra gentiles/The Main Argument Against the Gentiles, born in Roccasecca, near Aquino, Sicily (–1274). | | January - April 1224 | England [political events] | King Henry III of England recovers control of royal castles that have been held by various barons since the civil war of King John's reign. | | 5 May 1224 | France, England [wars] | King Louis VIII of France declares war on King Henry III of England; he then overruns Poitou and most of Gascony north of the River Garonne. |
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