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Name: malacca sultanate

Type: Cluster

Start: 1401 AD

End: 1826 AD

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The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Malacca Sultanate
  • Malacca Sultanate (Great Britain)
  • Establishment


  • January 1401: The Malacca Sultanate extended its authority over the island and Singapore became a part of the Malacca Sultanate.
  • Chronology


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    1. Capture of Malacca (1511)


    Was the Portuguese capture of Malacca in 1511.

  • August 1511: The Portuguese captured Malacca.

  • 2. Conquests of Iskandar Muda


    Expansion during the rule of Iskandar Muda in the Aceh Sultanate.

  • January 1608: Alauddin Riayat Shah ibn Firman Shah conquered Pahang, a tin-producing region of the Malayan Peninsula.
  • January 1630: Aceh conquers the region of Kedah.
  • January 1630: Expansion of the Sultanate of Aceh by 1630.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1452: Kelantan, a territory in present-day Malaysia, fell under the power of the Siamese Kingdom in the 15th century. In 1451, it was conquered by the Malacca Sultanate, a powerful maritime empire in Southeast Asia.

  • January 1455: Around the middle of the 15th century, the Old Pahang Kingdom was brought into the orbit of Melaka Sultanate.

  • January 1471: On his royal visit to Majapahit, Mansur Shah was also accompanied by his knights. At that time, Majapahit was already at a declining state and found itself unable to overcome on the rising power of the Malay sultanate. After a display of Malaccan military prowess in his court, the king of Majapahit, afraid of losing more territories, had agreed to marry off his daughter, Raden Galuh Cendera Kirana to Sultan Mansur Shah and relinquished control over Indragiri, Jambi, Tungkal and Siantan to Malacca.

  • January 1471: The sultanate has its origin as a vassal to Melaka, with its first Sultan was a Melakan prince, Muhammad Shah, himself the grandson of Dewa Sura, the last pre-Melakan ruler of Pahang.

  • January 1481: Many territories in Peninsular Malaysia and eastern Sumatra and the surrounding islands were conquered by Mansur Shah and Alauddin Riayat Shah of Malacca.

  • January 1481: Mansur Shah was the Sultan of Malacca Sultanate from 1459 to 1477. He was known for his aggressive expansionist policies, which led to the annexation of territories like Kampar and Siak in 1480. Kampar and Siak were important strategic locations that further strengthened the Malacca Sultanate's influence in the region.

  • January 1507: By about 1500, the Malacca Sultanate reached its maximum territorial extent. Its city of Malacca was the capital of a great Malay empire, the chief centre of trade in Indian cloth, Chinese porcelain and silk and Malay spices, and the headquarters of Muslim activity in the Malay Archipelago.

  • January 1512: Following the Portuguese conquest of Malacca in 1511, Kelantan dissolved into several petty fiefdoms.

  • January 1521: Ali Mughayat Syah, the sultante of Aceh, began campaigns to extend his control over northern Sumatra in 1520. His conquests included Deli, Pedir, and Pasai.

  • January 1529: When the Sultanate of Malacca empire fell to Portugal in 1511, Sultan Mahmud Syah I retreated to Kampar, Sumatra, and died there in 1528. He left behind two princes named Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah II and Sultan Muzaffar Syah. The former went on to establish the Sultanate of Johor. Muzaffar Syah was invited to rule Perak: he became the first sultan of Perak.

  • January 1529: The Johor Sultanate (Malay: Kesultanan Johor or کسلطانن جوهر‎; also called the Sultanate of Johor, Johor-Riau, Johor-Riau-Lingga, or the Johor Empire) was founded by Malaccan Sultan Mahmud Shah's son, Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah II in 1528.

  • January 1565: The 16th century witnessed the rise of Burma, which under an aggressive dynasty had overrun Chiang Mai and Laos and made war on Ayutthaya. With the decline of Ayutthaya's hegemony in this period, Patani may became independent temporarily.

  • January 1602: In the beginning of the 17th-century, Palembang became one of the centers of Islam in Indonesia. The sultanate of Kraton Kuto Gawang was founded in the area by Ki Gede ing Suro, a nobleman from the Demak Sultanate.

  • March 1825: Malacca is relinquished by treaty to Great Britain.

  • August 1826: On 14 Aug 1826, Prince of Wales Island Colony became part of the Straits Settlements. The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories in Southeast Asia.

  • Disestablishment


  • August 1826: On 14 Aug 1826, Prince of Wales Island Colony became part of the Straits Settlements. The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories in Southeast Asia.
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