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1294| 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. | | 1294 | Ethiopia [political events] | King Yagba-Siyon of Ethiopia dies. This is followed by a long period of civil war, resulting in the institution of the royal prison at Mount Gishen. | | 1294 | Mongol Empire [births and deaths] | Kublai Khan, Mongol general, grandson of Genghis Khan, conqueror of China and first emperor of the Yüan dynasty 1294, dies (c. 79). | | 1294 | China [administration] | Following the death of Kublai Khan, great khan and Mongol (Yuan) emperor of China, he is succeeded by his grandson, Temür. | | 1 January 1294 | England, France [political events] | King Edward I of England responds to his summons, by proxy, to the Parlement of Paris to answer for attacks by Anglo-Gascons on French seamen, and agrees to surrender castles in Gascony during an enquiry. The consequent French seizure of Gascony leads to war between the two countries. | | 24 August 1294 | England, Holy Roman Empire, France [treaties] | In the Treaty of Nuremberg, King Edward I of England and the Holy Roman Emperor Adolf I of Nassau make an alliance against France. | | 23 December 1294 | Papal States, Italy [administration] | Benedict Gaetani is elected Pope Boniface VIII. |
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