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1420| 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. 1420 | Flanders [painting] | The Flemish artist brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck develop the technique of painting using oils as a medium to hold the pigment. | | 25 March 1420 | Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire [wars] | In the first battle of the Hussite Wars, the extremist antipapal Taborites, led by John Žiška, defeat the Bohemian Catholics at Sudomer, Bohemia. | | 14 July 1420 | Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire [wars] | In the Hussite Wars, the extremist antipapal Taborites, led by John Žiška, defeat a crusading army led by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, King of Hungary and Bohemia, on the Vitkow, now Ziška's Hill, outside Prague, Bohemia. The ‘Four Articles of Prague’ defining the principles common to the Hussites are now published. | | 1 November 1420 | Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire [wars] | The Hussites again defeat the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, King of Hungary and Bohemia, under the Heights of Vyšehrad, near Prague, Bohemia: the first anti-Hussite crusade fails. Four further unsuccessful crusades follow. |
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