island bordering the south of maritime Southeast Asia and the north of the Australian continental plate
6 dated entries naming Timor, drawn from 6 separate years between 1512 CE and 2021 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
1512António de Abreu discovers Timor Island, and reaches the Banda Islands, Ambon Island and Seram.source
1515The Portuguese are the first Europeans to land in Timor island, as the first settlers arrive to the north coast of Madeira Island, there establishing Saint George.source
18th century
1749November 9 – Battle of Penfui on Timor: A large Topass army is defeated by a numerically inferior Dutch East India Company.source
1789July 14 – Survivors of the mutiny on the Bounty, including Captain William Bligh and 18 others, reach Timor after a nearly 4000 mi km journey in an open boat.source
19th century
1859The island of Timor is divided between Portugal and the Netherlands.source
21st century
2021April 4 – More than 270 people are killed in Indonesia and East Timor after Cyclone Seroja strikes East Nusa Tenggara and the island of Timor.source