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1100–1532South 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.
1486–1494Japan [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.
1490Italy [science]While visiting Milan, Italy, the Italian scholar and artist Leonardo da Vinci begins to keep notebooks detailing his ideas and inventions. He discovers and describes capillarity, the way in which liquids rise up through small-bore tubes.
6 April 1490Hungary, Holy Roman Empire, Austria [political events]The death of Matthias I Corvinus, king of Hungary, without an heir, leads to the dissolution of his empire, and the Habsburgs, under Maximilian, king of the Romans, recover his conquests in Austria.


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The war of the buccaneers of 1490 was so recent that it could not fail being alluded to; the English pirates had, they said, most shamefully taken their ships while in the roadstead; and the Councillor, before whose eyes the Herostratic* event of 1801 still floated vividly, agreed entirely with the others in abusing the rascally English.
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