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1282| 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. | | 21 March 1282 | England [wars] | David ap Gruffydd, brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales, begins a widespread Welsh revolt against King Edward I of England by capturing Hawarden Castle. A Welsh ‘parliament’ soon commits the Welsh to war. | | 25 April 1282 | England [political events] | The Welsh revolt against King Edward I of England collapses with the surrender of Harlech Castle to the English. | | 11 December 1282 | Byzantine Empire [administration] | The Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus dies. He is succeeded by his son, Andronicus II Palaeologus, who immediately renounces the reunion of the Greek church with Rome. |
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