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Landmark Oceania archaeological

Wairau Bar

1280 CE – 1400 CE · 120 years

New Zealand's most significant early Polynesian settlement site, with burials containing moa eggs, adzes, and whale tooth pendants

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Wairau Bar on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1279 CE)
  2. Māori (1300 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Maoris (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Māori (1650 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. New Zealand (UK) (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. New Zealand (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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Wars of Majapahit

1293 CE – 1527 CE

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Komodo Island

3000 BCE – still standing

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Tasmanian hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1715 CE

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Uluru (Ayers Rock)

3000 BCE – still standing

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Māori

Attested 1279 CE – 1900 CE

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Milford Sound

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1280 CE and 1400 CE.

1293 CE Wars of Majapahit 1280 CE Wieliczka Salt Mine 1282 CE War of the Sicilian Vespers 1296 CE Wars of Scottish Independence 1296 CE Anglo–Scottish Wars

And in the rest of the world

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