What the records say
- When
- 21 Aug 1678
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 7.19° S, 111.34° E
Placed at the middle of the 2 places it links.
Summary
On the island of Java in modern-day Indonesia, the Kediri campaign begins as Mataram Sultanate and Dutch East India Company (VOC) forces under the command of VOC Captain François Tack begin marching from Jepara toward Kediri to suppress the Trunajaya rebellion that had driven out the Mataram Sultan. They are joined by two other columns of troops over the next fortnight.
1678 Kediri campaign
Dutch-Mataram campaign in Java
In a campaign that took place from August to December 1678 in Kediri during the Trunajaya rebellion, the forces of the Mataram Sultanate, led by Amangkurat II, and of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), led by Anthonio Hurdt, marched inland into eastern Java against Trunajaya's forces.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “поход на Кедири”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page