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1450| 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. 1450 | Netherlands [births and deaths] | Hieronymus Bosch (pseudonym of Jerome van Aeken), highly original Dutch painter, associated with complex and fantastic symbolism and allegory, whose major works include The Temptation of St Antony and The Garden of Earthly Delights, born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Brabant (–1516). | | c. 1450 | Italy [painting] | The Italian artist Piero della Francesca paints The Baptism of Christ. | | c. 1450 | Italy [painting] | The Italian artist Paolo Uccello paints three versions of The Battles of San Romano. | | 3 July - 5 July 1450 | England [political events] | The rebellious peasants of Kent and Sussex, under the Irish rebel leader ‘Jack Cade’, control the English capital, London. | | 29 August 1450 | Denmark-Norway [political events] | The formal union of Denmark and Norway, under King Christian I, is enacted in Bergen, Norway. |
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