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1276| 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. | | 1276 | China [Mongol conquests (1206–1405)] | Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor of China, takes Hangzhou, the Song dynasty capital, after a failed attempt by the empress dowager to achieve an accommodation with the Mongols. | | 1276 | Russia [political events] | Vasili, Grand Duke of Vladimir, Russia, dies. The throne is assigned to his nephew, Dmitri I, the eldest living son of the former Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky, by Mangu-Temur, Khan of the ‘Golden Horde’. | | 21 January 1276 | Papal States, Italy [administration] | Peter of Tarantaise is elected Pope Innocent V. | | 14 June 1276 | China [administration] | Shih, the seven-year-old half-brother of the captured Chinese Song emperor, is enthroned. | | 11 July 1276 | Papal States, Italy [administration] | Ottobuono Fieschi is elected Pope Adrian V after the death of Pope Innocent V. | | 8 September 1276 | Papal States, Italy [administration] | Peter Juliani of Portugal is elected Pope John XXI. | | 25 November 1276 | Germany, Austria, Holy Roman Empire, Bohemia, Moravia [treaties] | Following King Rudolf I of Germany's siege of Vienna and a revolt in Bohemia, King Ottokar II of Bohemia, by the Treaty of Vienna, surrenders Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and all his other lands except Bohemia and Moravia, for which he does homage to Rudolf. Rudolf then makes Vienna the capital of his Habsburg lands. |
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