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1430| 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. | | 1430 | Ottoman Empire [births and deaths] | Selim I, Ottoman sultan (1512–20), who extended the Ottoman empire to Egypt, Syria, and the Hejaz, born in Amasya, Ottoman Empire (–1520). | | c. 1430 | Italy [sculpture] | The Italian artist Donatello (Donato di Niccolò) sculpts his bronze David, the first free-standing, life-sized nude of the Renaissance. Suggested dates for this work vary widely from 1430 to 1460. | | 1430 | Europe [weapons] | New metallurgical techniques for making plate iron and steel lead to innovations in military equipment. Metal plate armour becomes standard for European knights , and ‘Mad Marjorie’, a huge 5-m/16-ft cast-iron cannon, is constructed. | | c. 1430 | Ethiopia [administration] | King Yeshaq of Ethiopia dies. A succession crisis follows. | | 23 May 1430 | France, England [Hundred Years War (1337–1453)] | Burgundian troops capture the French military leader Joan of Arc as she attempts to prevent the fall of the town of Compiègne, France. She is sold to the English for 10,000 livres tournois. |
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