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1380| 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. | | 1380 | Germany [births and deaths] | Thomas à Kempis (original name Thomas Hemerken), theologian to whom the highly influential De imitatione Christi/On the Imitation of Christ is attributed, born in Kempen, near Düsseldorf, Germany (–1471). | | 1380 | Italy [churches and temples] | The Cathedral of Siena is completed in Italy. It is one of the finest examples of Italian Gothic. | | 1380 | China [law and government] | While suppressing a conspiracy, Hung-wu, Ming emperor of China, abolishes the office of prime minister and the central chancellery, thereby introducing a new system in which Chinese emperors assume personal and autocratic rule. | | 8 September 1380 | Russia [Mongol conquests (1206–1405)] | Dmitri III of Moscow, Russia, Grand Duke of Vladimir, leads the Russians to victory over the ‘Golden Horde’ at Kulikovo Pole, on the upper River Don, Russia. The supremacy of Moscow in Russia is thus confirmed. | | 16 September 1380 | France [births and deaths] | Charles V the Wise, king of France 1364–80, who led France to recovery after the first phase of the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453), dies in Nogent-sur-Marne, France (42). |
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