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1304| 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. | | 1304 | Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, Holy Roman Empire [political events] | A revolt in Hungary causes King Ladislas (Wenceslas) IV of Hungary to return to Bohemia. The Holy Roman Emperor Albert I invades Bohemia but retires on failing to take Kutná Hora. King Wenceslas II of Bohemia is then expelled from Poland and King Wladyslaw restored. | | 20 July 1304 | Tuscany [births and deaths] | Petrarch (Petrarca), Italian poet whose work was a major influence on the growth of Renaissance poetry, born in Arezzo, Tuscany (–1374). |
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