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1353| 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. | | 1353 | England, Flanders [trade] | King Edward III of England transfers the wool staple (the town appointed to be the exclusive wool marketplace) from Bruges, Flanders, to England. | | 1353 | Denmark, Norway, Sweden [births and deaths] | Margaret I, regent of Denmark 1375–97, Norway 1380–89, and Sweden 1388–97, thereafter effective ruler of all three countries through her son Erik VIII, born in Søborg, Denmark (–1412). | | 1353 | Florence [fiction] | Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio completes his Decameron, a collection of tales supposedly told by ten young people living in the country to escape the plague in Florence. It is one of the major prose works of early Italian literature. | | 1353 | Southeast Asia [administration] | Fa Ngum, a Siamese (now Thai) prince who has conquered the Upper Mekong Valley, is proclaimed Chieng Dong Chieng Tong, King of Lan Chang (‘the country of a million elephants’), at Luang Prabang (modern Laos). |
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