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1528| 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. | | 1528 | France [palaces] | The development of the Palace of Fontainebleau begins in France. In both its structure and its lavish decoration, the palace becomes the centrepiece of King Francis I of France's artistic programme, which is to import Italian Renaissance styles. | | 1528 | Songhai [political events] | The Songhai ruler Muhammad I Askia is deposed by his eldest son Askia Musa after the assassination of his general, Yaya; he lives another 11 years to, see his empire wracked by the succession wars of his sons. | | 1528 | Mexico, New Spain [religious freedom] | The Inquisition claims its first victims in the New World when two Jews (one of them a companion of the conquistador Hernán Cortés) are burnt at the stake in Mexico. | | 1528 | Italy [social theory] | Italian writer Baldassare Castiglione publishes Il libro del cortegiano/The Book of the Courtier. Setting out the accomplishments of the ideal Renaissance courtier, it has a profound effect on manners throughout Europe. An English translation, by Thomas Moby, is published in 1561. | | 1528 | Holy Roman Empire, Spanish Netherlands [wars] | Continuing its campaigns against the Habsburgs and the county of Holland, the marauding army of Charles of Egmont, Duke of Guelders, under ‘Black’ Maarten van Roosem, sacks The Hague. | | January 1528 | India, Mogul Empire [Mughal conquest of India (1526–1707)] | The Afghan Mogul leader Babur leads the storm of Chanderi, the last important centre of Rajput resistance to his rule in India; he then turns towards Bengal. | | 6 April 1528 | Germany [births and deaths] | Albrecht Dürer, considered to be the greatest German painter and printmaker of the Renaissance, dies in Nuremberg, Germany (56). | | June 1528 | England, Spanish Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire [economic conditions] | The economic crisis and distress in England, caused by war with the Habsburgs, leads to incipient rebellion, riots in Kent, and a general refusal to fight; the Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, is obliged to make a truce with Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Habsburg regent of the Netherlands. |
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