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1271| 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. | | 1271 | Hungary, Bulgaria [political events] | King Stephen V of Hungary makes Bulgaria a tributary state. | | 21 August 1271 | Toulouse, France [political events] | Alfonse of Poitiers dies. His nephew, King Philip III of France, thus inherits the counties of Poitou and Toulouse, which are absorbed into the royal domain. Philip presents the Comtât Venaissin, east of the River Rhône, to the papacy. | | 1 September 1271 | Papal States, Italy [administration] | Tedald Visconti of Piacenza is elected Pope Gregory X. |
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