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1252| 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. | | 1252 | Champa, Dai Viet [wars] | King Jaya Parmesvaravarman II of Champa (corresponding roughly to modern southern Vietnam) is killed during an invasion from Dai Viet (modern Northern Vietnam, also known as Annam). Both states make peace, bringing 30 years of inconclusive warfare to a close. | | 25 March 1252 | Holy Roman Empire, Germany [political events] | William, Count of Holland, is again elected Holy Roman Emperor. Pope Innocent IV directs the Germans to accept him, following the death of the previous papal candidate, Henry Raspe of Thuringia, in 1247. |
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