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1288| 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. | | 1288 | Poland [political events] | Leszek III the Black, Grand Prince of Poland, dies without issue. There are several candidates for the succession. The Mongol raids into Poland (since 1282) now cease. | | 1288 | Middle East [tools] | The Jewish astronomer Jacob ben Makir ibn Tibbon writes a Hebrew treatise on the construction and use of an instrument called the quadrant. This is a considerably simpler device than the astrolabe for making astronomical measurements. | | 2 February 1288 | Papal States, Italy, Ilkhanate, Persia [administration] | Jerome of Ascoli is elected Pope Nicholas IV. He soon receives an ambassador from the Ilkhan Arghun of Persia, who has been visiting the European kings to organize a joint crusade against Egypt. |
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