Polynesians settle New Zealand
Humans reach the last large landmass left unsettled
East Polynesian voyagers in canoes reached New Zealand, the last major landmass to be settled by humans. Their descendants created Māori culture; one of the oldest settlements has been found at Wairau Bar.
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The colossal Taupō eruption of around 232 struck a New Zealand with no people at all: Polynesians would arrive more than a thousand years later.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — 20 years later
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 22 years earlier
Asia
- 1257 Samalas eruption — 23 years earlier
- 1271 Kublai Khan founds the Yuan dynasty — 9 years earlier
- 1271–1295 Travels of Marco Polo — 9 years earlier
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — 1 year later
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — 13 years later
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 65)
- Marco Polo (aged 26)
- Dante Alighieri (aged 15)
- Rudolf I (aged 62)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 41)
- Osman I (aged 22)
- Philip IV the Fair (aged 12)
- Mansa Musa (aged 0)
- Philip III the Bold (aged 35)
- Adolf of Nassau (aged 30)