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1421| 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. | | 1421 | Italy [churches and temples] | Work begins on the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, Italy. The design is by the Italian artist and architect Filippo Brunelleschi, whose aim is to construct the entire church in cubic units – a revolutionary approach that has a profound effect on Italian Renaissance architecture. | | 1421 | Burgundian Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire [natural disasters] | More than 100,000 people die in over 70 Dutch villages when the Zuider Zee floods. | | 1 June 1421 | Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire [political events] | The estates (representatives of the aristocracy, clergy, and commons) of Bohemia and Moravia, meeting at Câslav, renounce the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund as their king and form a government. | | 2 November 1421 | Bohemia, Germany, Holy Roman Empire [wars] | In the Hussite Wars, the Bohemians defeat a second invading crusade by German princes at Saaz, Bohemia. This marks the failure of the second anti-Hussite crusade. |
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