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1502| 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. | | 1502 | China, Ming Empire [births and deaths] | Mi-lu, the female ‘bandit’ who has led the Lolo people's rebellion in the Chinese provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan for three years, is finally pursued to her death. | | 1502 | Italy [churches and temples] | The Tempietto, a small chapel in Rome, Italy, designed by the Italian architect Donato Bramante, is completed. It is widely seen as the perfect expression of the new classicism of Italian Renaissance architecture. | | 1502 | Mexico, Aztec Empire [information technology] | Spanish printer Juan Pablos sets up a printing press in Mexico and produces the first printed book in the Americas, Christian Doctrine in the Mexican and Castilian Language. | | 1502 | France, Italy [religious music] | The first book of masses by the French composer Josquin des Prés is published by the Italian music printer Ottaviano dei Petrucci. Others follow in 1512 and 1516. | | 1502 | North Africa, Songhai [wars] | The Songhai emperor Muhammad I Askia completes his conquests of the Mossi people of Yatenga and the Tuaregs of Aïr in northwest Africa. | | 2 March 1502 | Holy Roman Empire [administration] | The imperial arch-chancellor Berthold of Henneberg is forced to resign by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, ending the effective rule of the Reichsregiment (imperial council). | | 19 June 1502 | England, Holy Roman Empire [political events] | King Henry VII of England agrees to pay the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I £10,000 towards his proposed crusade in return for the denial of asylum to English rebels, particularly the Earl of Suffolk, a Yorkist claimant to the throne (confirmed 28 July). |
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