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1506| 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. | | 5 May 1506 | France, Holy Roman Empire [political events] | Revoking the Treaty of Blois of 1504, King Louis XII of France breaks the engagement of his daughter Claude to Archduke Charles (the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V), son of Philip (‘the Handsome’), Duke of Burgundy. The Estates General (parliament) of France has declared that the duchies of Brittany and Burgundy and the county of Blois are inalienable. Claude is betrothed instead to Louis's cousin and heir presumptive, Francis of Angoulême, Duke of Valois, the future King Francis I. | | 21 May 1506 | Spain, Genoa [births and deaths] | Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator and explorer, the first explorer of the New World to achieve long-term historical impact, dies in Valladolid, Spain (54). | | 25 September 1506 | Spain [political events] | When King Philip I ‘the Handsome’ of Castile dies suddenly in Burgos, Spain, his widow, Joanna ‘the Mad’, is forced into a confinement (on the basis of her insanity) that is to last until her death in 1555. The Castilian aristocracy, still hostile to King Ferdinand II of Aragon, appoints Cardinal Ximénez as regent. |
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