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1494| 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. | | 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. | | 1494 | Germany [poetry] | The German humanist and poet Sebastian Brandt publishes Das Narrenshiff/The Ship of Fools, a verse satire on human folly. It is soon widely translated. The illustrations for the first edition are by the German artist Albrecht Dürer. | | 1494 | Holy Roman Empire, Germany [companies and organizations] | The German Fugger merchant family establishes its first public company with a capital of 53,385 gulden, the sum being doubled in 1496 when the bishop of Brixen becomes a partner in the company. | | 7 June 1494 | Spain, Portugal [treaties] | Under the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain and Portugal amend the earlier papal rulings on the division of the New World. Portugal is to have all lands east of a longitudinal line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde, and Spain is to have the rest. | | 1 September 1494 | Italy, France [wars] | King Charles VIII of France invades Italy in order to claim the throne of Naples, Italy. He crosses the Alps and arrives in Turin, Italy, a week later. | | November 1494 | Turkey [births and deaths] | Süleyman I the Magnificent or the Law Giver, Ottoman sultan 1520–66, whose reign saw imperial expansion in Europe and the Middle East, and major achievements in Ottoman administration and culture, born (–1566). | | 17 November 1494 | Italy, Florence [political events] | King Charles VIII of France enters Florence, Italy, where a popular revolution influenced by the messianic Dominican friar Savonarola expels Piero de' Medici, who had supported Ferrante of Naples. Florence returns to a republican government. | | December 1494 | Spain [wars] | Alfonso Fernandez de Lugo leads a Spanish invading force to victory in battle against the native Guanche at La Laguna in Tenerife, the Canary Islands, securing the island for Spain. |
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