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1242| 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. | | 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. | | 1242 | Mongol Empire, Russia [Mongol conquests (1206–1405)] | Batu withdraws the Mongol army from central Europe in the spring in order to return to the Mongol capital, Karakorum, to elect the late Great Khan Ogedai's successor: a four-year interregnum follows. Batu now organizes the Mongol territories in Russia as a semi-autonomous state, known as The Khanate of the Golden Horde (supposedly named after the colour of the khan's tent). | | 21 July 1242 | England, France, Toulouse [wars] | King Henry III of England retreats to Saintes after he is defeated by King Louis IX of France at Taillebourg, France. Louis suppresses the revolt of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, and the Lusignans. |
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