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1486| 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. 1486 | Roman Empire, Rome, Italy [architecture] | De architectura/On Architecture, a treatise on architecture written by 1st-century BC Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, is printed in Rome, Italy. Versions of the text were known throughout the Middle Ages, but the discovery of a superior manuscript in 1414 renewed interest in classical architecture. This book had a profound effect on the development of Renaissance architecture. | | 1486–1494 | Japan [law and government] | Having expelled rampaging feudal armies, leaders of the insurgent Yamashiro Ikki league (in which the gentry have joined with the peasants) meet at Uji, Japan, to formulate a provisional government for the province. | | 1486 | Europe [magic and the occult] | Malleus maleficarum/The Hammer of Witches, a book accepting the existence and powers of witches, is published. It is written by two Dominican monks, Heinrich Krämer and Jakob Spränger, and authorized by Pope Innocent VIII. It becomes infamous for encouraging witch-hunts throughout Europe over the next few centuries. | | c. 1486 | Italy [painting] | The Italian artist Andrea Mantegna paints The Triumph of Caesar, a series of nine paintings. | | 16 February 1486 | Holy Roman Empire [political events] | The diet at Frankfurt, Germany, elects Maximilian I of Habsburg as king of the Romans, a subsidiary title of the Holy Roman Emperor. His father Frederick III the Holy Roman Emperor relinquishes government to Maximilian, who proclaims a general peace in Germany for ten years. |
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