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1503| 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. | | 1503 | Florence, Italy, France [painting] | The Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) (Louvre, Paris), a portrait of Lisa di Antonio Maria Gherardini, the wife of a leading Florentine official. It will become one of the best-known paintings in the world. | | 1503 | Portugal, Africa, Brazil [slavery] | The Portuguese send African slaves to Brazil. These are the first Africans to be sent as slaves by Europeans to the New World and the journey marks the start of the Atlantic slave trade. | | 18 August 1503 | Rome [births and deaths] | Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), pope 1492–1503, notorious for his corruption and worldliness, father of Cesare and Lucretia Borgia, dies in Rome, Italy (c. 72). | | 20 August 1503 | Venice, Italy, Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Balkans [treaties] | Venice, Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire conclude a peace. Under the treaty Venice is to abandon Lepanto, Modon, Coron, and Navarino in Morea (the Peloponnese, Greece) and Durazzo in Albania, but retain Cephalonia. Hungary agrees a seven-year truce with the Turks. | | 22 September 1503 | Rome [Christianity] | The Italian churchman Francesco Todeschini is elected Pope Pius III. He is pope for less than a month. | | 22 September - 18 October 1503 | Papal States, Italy, Venice [political events] | After the election of Pope Pius III, rulers deposed by the Borgias return to the cities of the Romagna, Emilia, and Umbria. The Orsini family returns to Rome and Venice invades the Romagna. | | 1 November 1503 | Papal States, Italy [political events] | Giuliano della Rovere is elected Pope Julius II, succeeding Pius III who died on 18 October. He imprisons Cesare Borgia, former captain general of the papal army, to force him to surrender his duchy of Romagna, releasing him upon Borgia's compliance. | | 29 December 1503 | Spain, France, Naples, Italy [wars] | Spanish forces under Gonzalo de Córdoba defeat the French at the Battle of the River Garigliano, completing the Spanish conquest of the kingdom of Naples and domination of southern Italy. |
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