Early Kingdoms of Java

Name: Early Kingdoms of Java
Start: 1006

Type Event Region Indonesia Time 1006

Around 1006 CE, the Medang kingdom of central Java was devastated by a Srivijayan expedition and the eruption of Mount Merapi;…

Timeline

1006Medang capital · JavaA Srivijayan fleet campaigned against Java while Mount Merapi erupted on a large scale; this double catastrophe severely damaged the Medang capital and brought the kingdom's ruling system to the brink of collapse.
1006–1019Eastern Java · JavaKing Dharmawangsa was killed in the fighting, and royal descendants and nobles fled eastward; Java's political center shifted from the central Yogyakarta plain to East Java, where Airlangga eventually restored unified order in the mid-11th century.

Nagarakretagama（爪哇史颂） — Mpu Prapanca (1365)
Early Kingdoms of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula — Paul Michel Munoz (2006)