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1359| 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. | | 1359 | Italy, Florence [sculpture] | Italian artist Orcagna (Andrea di Cione) sculpts the Tabernacle in the shrine of Orsanmichele in Florence, Italy. A complex, richly decorated work, it has been made to house Bernardo Daddi's Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels (1347). | | 1359 | Russia [Mongol conquests (1206–1405)] | Berdibeg, Khan of the ‘Golden Horde’, is murdered and is succeeded by his brother Kulpa. This initiates the ‘great troubles’, a period of turmoil within the ‘Horde’. |
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