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Conflict Oceania

Wars of Majapahit

1293 CE – 1527 CE · 234 years

The Majapahit Empire unified most of the Indonesian archipelago under Gajah Mada's oath of Palapa. At its height it controlled Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and parts of the Malay Peninsula — the largest pre-colonial Southeast Asian empire.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Majapahit Empire
  • Srivijaya remnants, rival Javanese kingdoms

Key moments

Defining events in the Wars of Majapahit.

  1. 1293 Mongol invasion of Java repulsed
  2. 1331–1364 Gajah Mada's campaigns
  3. 1527 Fall of Majapahit to Demak

Elsewhere in Oceania at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Attested 1492 CE – 2026 CE

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Great Barrier Reef

3000 BCE – still standing

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Kediri

Attested 1279 CE – 1400 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Komodo Island

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1815 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1293 CE and 1527 CE.

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And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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