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1272| 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. | | 1272 | Spain [scientific publications] | The Alfonsine Tables are completed and published by two Jewish astronomers working for King Alfonso X of Castile. They will be used to calculate planetary positions and eclipses for the next three centuries. | | 20 November 1272 | England [political events] | Edward Plantagenet, the son of the late King Henry III, is proclaimed king of England by hereditary right. |
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