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1360| 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. | | 1360 | Central Asia [Mongol conquests (1206–1405)] | Timur Leng (Tamerlane), the great khan, begins his conquest of Transoxiana (modern Uzbekistan), the region in which he was born, with the seizure of Kesh, near Samarkand, from Ilyas Khoja, the governor of the region for the khanate of Kashgar. | | c. 1360 | England [poetry] | English writer William Langland writes his long religious allegory The Vision of Piers Plowman. A longer version appears in the 1370s. | | 1360 | Germany, Holy Roman Empire [churches and temples] | The Cathedral of Freiburg in Germany is completed. | | 8 May 1360 | France, England [Hundred Years War (1337–1453)] | King Edward III of England concludes the preliminary terms of a treaty of peace with France at Brétigny, France, later to be confirmed in the Treaty of Calais. It gives Edward full sovereignty of Gascony and other debatable lands, as well as territory in the north of France. In return he renounces his claim to the throne of France. | | 24 October 1360 | France, England [Hundred Years War (1337–1453)] | The Treaty of Calais confirms the terms made between England and France at Brétigny, France. |
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