- Africa
Fang and Ndowe of Río Muni
The Fang, a large Bantu people, settled the forests of the mainland enclave of Río Muni, while Ndowe and related coastal peoples — later grouped as Playeros — occupied the shoreline and mediated trade with the interior.
Era: Peoples of the island and the mainland
Sources: History of Equatorial Guinea · Encyclopædia Britannica, Equatorial Guinea · Encyclopedia.com, Equatorial Guinea — Background Note · U.S. Department of State
- Africa
Dyula merchants found northern trading towns
Mandé-speaking Muslim merchants, the Dyula, established trading and Islamic centres such as Kong, Bondoukou, Bouna, and Begho, linking the rainforest to the markets of the Sahel.
Era: The northern savannas, the Dyula, and the Empire of Kong
Sources: History of Ivory Coast · Wikipedia, Kong Empire · Wikipedia, Korhogo · Encyclopædia Britannica
- Oceania
Polynesian voyagers settle Aotearoa
The ancestors of the Māori reached New Zealand from East Polynesia in great voyaging canoes around 1300 CE, making it one of the last large landmasses on Earth to be permanently settled.
Era: The Polynesian voyage and the making of the Māori world
Sources: Pacific voyaging and discovery · NZ History (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), Māori arrival and settlement · Te Ara — The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, New Zealand (country) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Peoples & MigrationThe 14th century
Peoples & Migration in the 14th century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 14th century — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, all of it in 1300. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1300
- Latest
- 1300
- Africa
- 2
- Oceania
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.