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1351| 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. | | c. 1340–c. 1370 | Wales [poetry] | Welsh writer Dafydd ap Gwilym writes a body of poems – mostly love lyrics and nature poems – which are the highpoint of Welsh Medieval literature. | | 1351 | China [revolution] | The Chinese government provokes large-scale revolts by impressing labour to rebuild dykes along the Yellow River, and loses control of much of central China. | | c. 1351 | Italy [poetry] | Italian writer Francesco Petrarch (Petrarca) begins arranging his many poems so that they form a coherent whole (he constantly revised his works). Many are love poems addressed to Laura, a woman he knew only from a distance, falling into two separate categories: Rime in vita di Laura/Poems During Laura's Life and Rime in morte di Laura/Poems After Laura's Death. | | 27 March 1351 | France, England [Hundred Years War (1337–1453)] | The ‘Battle of the Thirty’ is fought between thirty English champions and the same number of Bretons and others of the Montfort party, in an attempt to end the dispute over the occupancy of the duchy of Brittany. The English party lose. |
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