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1246| 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. | | 1246 | Holy Roman Empire, Sicily [political events] | The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II suppresses a revolt in Sicily and deports its last Muslim inhabitants to Lucera, Italy. | | 1 January 1246 | Provence, France [political events] | Provence becomes part of France with the marriage of Beatrice, heiress of Count Raymond Berengar IV (who died in 1245), to Charles, count of Anjou, the brother of King Louis IX of France. | | 8 August 1246 | Mongol Empire [political events] | Guyuk, son of the late Great Khan Ogedai, is elected great khan of the Mongols; he receives Pope Innocent IV's envoy. |
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