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1293| 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. | | 1293 | Serbia [Mongol conquests (1206–1405)] | The Mongols, under Nogay, Khan of the ‘Nogay Horde’ (between the Dnieper and Danube rivers), invade Serbia. King Stephen Uroš becomes Nogay's vassal. | | 1293 | Russia [wars] | Tokhta, Khan of the ‘Golden Horde’, ravages Russia, including Vladimir and Moscow, in re-establishing Andrew as grand duke in place of Dmitri I, the vassal of Nogay, Khan of ‘the Nogay Horde’ (between the Dnieper and Danube rivers). | | 5 July 1293 | Papal States, Italy [administration] | Peter, the hermit of Monte Murrone, is elected Pope Celestine V. |
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