1520: A Majapahit timeline

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Guns of Trowulan aka 1520

Emperor Brawijaya VI

I
On 1520, Majapahit vassal states such as Demak and Brunei already are already in power and would advance further the impending collapse of Majapahit, Girindrawardhana aka Brawijaya VI have been advised on what to do and save the empire, he was told to convert to islam or contact the neighboring states.


Girindrawardhana/Brawijaya VI asks what to do with Demak as he had already tried many things to restore the glory of Majapahit, an advisor told him that the ruler of Demak should be his successor instead since he is a claimant to the Majapahit.


There are many things that he would consider to end the fight between the Demak and the Hindu faction of Majapahit, on the top of this it has been 10 years since the Portuguese sack of Melaka, he considered the Portuguese also a problem to his empire.


Girindrawardhana recognized the line of Demak as his successor, bypassing his own children preventing a civil war between the Hindu Majapahitans and the Muslim Majapahitans, this was the thing that he should and would do.


Girindrawardhana is very much concerned about the drag of the war between the Demak or Muslim factions in Java, because it will affect the recovery of Selurong Province and the Kingdoms within it in the eruption of Pinatubo a couple of decades ago and the fate of Sarawak which is under the influence of the Bruneians.


On 1527 Girindrawardhana ceded Trowulan, the capital of Majapahit and the throne of Majapahit to the ruler of Demak, Sultan Trengana, reigning as Trengana I in order to prevent more strife between the Hindu and Muslim factions of Majapahit, and Demak in Java which is a cadet lineage of the Majapahit and Singhasari royal house, the capital of Majapahit was moved to Demak, this was the step supported by the people, now the enemy of the Majapahitans are the Bruneians and now the Demak has united with Majapahit Hindu faction as a united with the Muslim Demak faction in Majapahit and the Bruneians are alienated from Majapahit.

 

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Ferdinand Magellan

II

March 15: Arrival of Magellan's expedition to one of the Philippine Islands. They headed to Suluan and dropped anchor for a few hours of respite." Suluan is a small island in the province of Eastern Samar. They then next dropped anchor at Homonhon, another small island in the province of Eastern Samar. They were detected by the boats of Rajah Kolambu who was visiting Mazaua, who later guided them to Cebu, on April 7.


April 7: Cebu.


April 27: Death of Magellan participating in the Battle of Mactan. Serrano and Barbosa are voted co-commanders.


May 1: At a local banquet Barbosa and 27 sailors (including Afonso de Góis, the new captain of the Victoria after the election of Barbosa and Serrão) are murdered and Serrao captured, later killed. The three remaining ships escape.


May 2: There are not enough men to handle three ships, thus the worm-infested Concepcion is burned down. Two ships remain: Victoria and Trinidad. Gonzalo Gomez de Espinosa becomes captain of the Victoria. Joao Lopez Carvalho is Captain General. The ships sail to Mindanao and Brunei.


September 21: Carvalho is replaced by Martín Méndez as Captain General, Espinosa becomes captain of the Trinidad and Juan Sebastián Elcano captain of the Victoria.


November 8: Arriving at Tidore in the Moluccas.


December 21: Victoria under the command of Elcano leaves the Moluccas to return home, sailing west towards the Cape of Good Hope. Trinidad remains at Tidore for repairs.


January 25: Victoria reaches Timor and starts to cross the Indian Ocean.


April 6: Trinidad under the command of Espinosa leaves the Moluccas heading home sailing east. After five weeks, Espinosa decides to return to the Moluccas where he and his ship are captured by a Portuguese fleet under Antonio de Brito. But the ship was wrecked during a storm.

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Meanwhile one of the crew leaves his own ship chose to go to Ambon and contact the children of Magellan with his wife in Ambon and inform him of his the death of Magellan the children were shocked about the death and they wanted to take their own revenge, later one of the children of Magellan became a part of the Bruneian court.[1]

[1]One difference from OTL in the Magellan-El Cano.

 

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III

On 1530, the Empire of Majapahit under the islamic rule of Trengana I would restore the Majapahit suzerainty of Selurong and Brunei both the provinces Sarawak and Brunei and the petty kingdoms inside them.


Trengana would want to attack the Bruneians and start a war since the Bruneians are trying to gain influence in Sarawak.


Trengana would attack the Abdul Kahar to secure both Brunei and Selurong as a part of the Majapahit empire with his own troops, the new Muslim Majapahit empire would want to secure their place in their trade with Okinawa and the Satsuma Domain of Nihon.


After the war, Trengana I would visit the provinces of Selurong and Sarawak and reestablish control there, the Kingdoms and cities inside Selurong and Sarawak would continue pay tribute to Majapahit, so does the cities that are direct vassals of Majapahit, the dominant Kingdom in Selurong(the Kingdom of Selurong) would assert its influence and dominance over the city states and other kingdoms in the same province while Brunei would lose its control over Sabah and Manila, the Sulu Sultanate becomes completely independent from Brunei.


Trengana I would reestablish his relations to the Satsuma Daimyo and the Ryukyuans in trading with Japanese, he sent emissaries to the Kingdom of Ryukyu in Okinawa which would continue the long ties between Majapahit and the Satsuma Daimyo and Ryukyu.

 

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IV

The return of Victoria to Spain on 1525 would make Spain learn about the lands in the east like Cebu, Palawan and more of Celebes and Mollucas, El Cano learned about the lands of the Empires of Majapahit as well as Brunei.


There were Maps described by the explorers in the area, the Map described the area belonging to Majapahit, however the area would be different on their return.


On 1526 Peace of Pavia stipulated that Princess Mary, son of Henry VIII will marry Francis I on the condition that Francis supports the divorce of Henry VIII with Catherine of Aragon, because Henry VIII lost any hopes for a son with Catherine of Aragon who is now 41 at this point and Princess Mary is now 10 year old and Henry VIII marries Princess Renee of France, a daughter of Anne of Brittany.


On 1527, Princess Renee of France arrived in England and Catherine of Aragon is advised to retreat to a nunnery to avoid a war between France and England which she followed and thus Henry VIII is married to Renee the following year, while Mary is sent to Calais in order to meet Francis II of France, the two were finally married on 1530, the marriages would create.

 

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V

On 1540 the South of Selurong, the Bruneian influence before the revived Majapahit resubjugated Brunei had lead some people to convert to Islam and for that reason the coastal Kumintang rapidly became Muslim and had good terms with Brunei, on the same time Islam is also spreading on Palawan and more areas of Borneo.


The cities in the Selurong Province of Majapahit would adopt islam, the coastal trading towns of Makabebe[1], Hangunoy[2], Bigan[3] and Faru[4] would adopt islam from Demak, the advance of islam would go from outside to inside the Island, although the Kingdoms of Selurong and Kaboloan were the last to convert to Islam since the religion is new to the Island, the Kingdom of Selurong and the cities that converted into Islam became the Nucleus of the Selurong Sultanate which was established when the ruler of the Kingdom of Selurong became Muslim because the ruler of Selurong became the recognized leader of the Muslims of Selurong, majority of the missionaries are from Brunei, Sumatra and Java but the people of Selurong prefer the Javanese Missionaries, causing more of them to come and Javanese and Acehnese would also migrate to Selurong.



On 1540, the Majapahit Empire had recovered from the chaos caused by almost dissolution of it due to Brunei and Demak, The Empire would benefit from the restored trade to Japan, the Majapahit Empire would also benefit with the trade of Spices with the Portuguese and the fact that one of its vassals, Sunda made a treaty on 1522, however, the Portuguese were starting to set up forts in the Nusa Tengarra islands which would start the trade between Majapahit and Portugal, Christian missionaries would arrive in Bali, Sunda in Java and Nusa Tengarra creating a Christian population in Bali and Nusa Tengarra.

1.OTL Macabebe
2.OTL Hagonoy
3.OTL Vigan
4.OTL Aparri

 

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Margaret of France, Queen of England, wife of Edward VI

VI

Renee of France would marry Henry VIII, the marriage would produce four children, Margaret b. 1528, Edward, Prince of Wales b. 1530, Elizabeth of England b. 1535, Henry b. 1536.

the King, Henry VIII would lose his interest on Renee on 1540, due to his gout and being old, Renee of France and Henry VIII would fight a lot due to their conflicting ideologies.


Eleonore of Austria would marry Frederick II, Elector, Palatinate, due to her refusing the marriage between her to either Francis I France and Charles of Bourbon, she married Frederick II on 1530, giving her two sons, Henry b. 1531 and Maximilian b. 1533


Meanwhile Mary of England, the Daughter of Henry VIII would give birth to two daughters and two son for Francis I, Catherine of France b. 1534 and Eleonore b. 1536, Henry of Angouleme b. 1538, Edouard of Angouleme b. 1541 and Francis of Angouleme b. 1545, Mary of England, would be rivals with Anne de Pisseleu for the attention of King Francis I, this ended on the death 1547, she would remarry to Philip I of Spain on 1549 who had earlier been a widower of Maria Manuela of Portugal, who also has a daughter named Carlota, she would give birth to another son named Philip, who would be Philip b. 1550 III of Spain and Isabella Clara Eugenia b. 1552.


On the death of Catherine of Aragon on 1535, Mary Tudor, the younger the wife of Francis I was able to visit and before the marriage with Philip II of Spain, on her return visit on 1547, she would propose the betrothal between Edward, Prince of Wales and Margaret of France, the younger sister of Madeleine, Queen of Scotland who died giving birth to the future James VI on 1542, when she went to Spain, on her marriage she arranged the marriage of her stepson, Charles, duke of Orleans to Carlota, her stepdaughter with Philip I of Spain, creating the house of Valois- Avis.


Surviving Children of Henry VIII



Henry VIII m. Catherine of Aragon(a) Renee of France(b)

1a. Mary of England, Queen of France and Spain(a) Francis I of France(b) Philip II of Spain

2b. Margaret of England m. Luis, Duke of Beja

3b. Edward VI m. Margaret of France

4b. Elizabeth of England m. Eric XIV of Sweden

5b. Henry of England, duke of York

 

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VII

Due to the Spanish subjugation of the City of Butuan, the Island of Mindanao has a port that is owned by the Spanish or Castillan Crown, since the time of the Spanish expedition of Magellan.


On 1570, the Spanish would make a return Expeditions under Villalobos who would name the Islands as the Philippines and later after Philip II Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, who would be able to successfully regain Cebu and Samar via a blood compacts with Rajah Tupas and Datu Uraw and thus the Spanish rule in Cebu and Butuan would solidify.


In 1569, due to scarcity of food provisions in Cebu, Legazpi transferred to Panay where they were peacefully welcomed by the people in the Kedatuan of Madja-as and they founded a second settlement on the bank of the Panay River, however he failed to subjugate Madja-as which is allied with the Sultanate of Johor-Riau, Madja-as is a Neo-Sri Vijyan stte. In 1570, Legazpi sent his grandson, Juan de Salcedo, who had arrived from Mexico in 1567, to Mindoro to punish the Muslim Moro pirates who had been plundering Panay villages. Salcedo also destroyed forts on the islands of Ilin and Lubang, respectively South and Northwest of Mindoro.


In 1570, having heard of the rich resources in Kumintang, Legazpi dispatched Martín de Goiti to explore the northern region. Landing in Batangas with a force of 120 Spaniards and 600 Visayans from Cebu and Panay islands, de Goiti explored the Pansipit River, which drains Taal Lake, he found about the Two Realms of Kumintang and Selurong, Kumintang is a Bruneian vassal, he returned to Cebu, however he conquered the lowland Minolo to Spain.


Under Demak, Majapahit would be revived in a short time, Demak Kings were replaced by Mataram on 1600 after the reign of the last Demak Emperor, Brawijaya VII, son of Mukmim I and Grandson of Trengana I due to the Demak Kings losing out their male lineage or its extinction, the Vassal countries of Selurong and Brunei had been mostly independent of Majapahit, the areas East of Bali became Portuguese vassals and Ternate became a Portuguese vassal, on 1590, the Kingdoms that were vassals of Majapahit had already become independent but remained allies of Majapahit.


The Island of Sumatra, Aceh Sultanate remained an ally of the Majapahit Empire although they remained independent, the Island of Sumatra became divided between Johor-Riau and Aceh Sultanates, Johor Riau is a Neo Sri Vijayan Kingdom.

 

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VIII

Since 1521, after the death of Magellan, since the surviving family of Magellan was aware of his death on the hands of Lapu-Lapu, the surviving family of Magellan from Ambon, apparently decided to take revenge on their hands.


The Family of Magellan was informed by one of the survivors of the Magellan-ElCano expedition about the death of Magellan and one of the members of his family wanted to take his revenge at his own hands.


One of the sons of Magellan swore to take his revenge against Lapu-Lapu and went to the court of the Bruneian Sultan in order to be close to the area of his own father’s killer and to be at the court of one of the Majapahitan vassals.


The son of Magellan learned to be a sniper and went to the court of Rajah Humabon and on 1540 he had a chance to have LapuLapu Killed at his own hands.


On 1540 the son of Magellan went to the house of LapuLapu and put poison at his food killing LapuLapu.


The feat was celebrated by Rajah Humabon who praised the son of Magellan who was promoted as one of the best warriors of Rajah Humabon.