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1296| 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. | | 30 March 1296 | England, Scotland [Anglo–Scottish Wars 1296–1371)] | King Edward I of England takes the town of Berwick as he begins his campaign to subdue Scotland. | | 10 July 1296 | Scotland, England [Anglo–Scottish Wars 1296–1371)] | John de Balliol, King of Scotland, surrenders to King Edward I of England and abdicates. | | 8 August 1296 | England, Scotland [Anglo–Scottish Wars 1296–1371)] | King Edward I of England returns from Scotland, bringing ‘the Stone of Destiny’, on which Scottish kings are crowned, as a symbol of his conquest of Scotland, from Scone to Westminster Abbey, London, England. |
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