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1511| 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. | | 1510–1512 | Denmark-Norway, Spanish Netherlands [wars] | King John I of Denmark-Norway, allied with the county of Holland, fights a war with and defeats the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, which has dominated Baltic trade for 350 years. By the Treaty of Malmö, navigation of the Sund is controlled from Copenhagen. | | 1511 | Portugal, Ayutthaya [exploration] | Portuguese navigators, spreading through the Sunda Islands and the South China Sea after their recent conquest of Malacca in Malaysia, reach the Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya. | | 1511 | France [fiction] | The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus publishes the prose satire Encomium moriae/In Praise of Folly in Paris, France. Written in Latin, it is translated into French and German in 1520, and English in 1549. | | 1511 | Italy [musical instruments] | The violin is in existence by this time – it is first mentioned in an inventory from Ferrara in Italy. | | 1511 | Italy, Rome [painting] | The Italian artist Raphael paints The School of Philosophy, a fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, Rome, Italy. | | 5 October 1511 | Papal States, Venice, Spain, France, Italy [political events] | Pope Julius II forms a ‘Holy League’ with Venice and King Ferdinand I of Aragon, on the pretext of preserving church unity, in reality to drive the French out of Italy. Ferdinand is to acquire the Spanish kingdom of Navarre, the Pope to recover the Italian cities of Bologna and Ferrara. | | 17 November 1511 | England, Spain, France [political events] | King Henry VIII of England, having joined the Holy League of the papacy, Venice, and Spain against France on 13 November, augments it with an offensive alliance with Spain. |
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