This article will look at 15 most famous events that have happened in Indonesia and their significance. 1 The second youth congress A picture of the youth pledge from the second youth congress by Sania Amalia- Wikimedia Indonesia history and timeline Early beginnings. The late 19th - century discovery of hominid remains on Java took the world by storm when they were Indianised kingdoms. Beginning in the second century AD, a number of sophisticated civilisations emerged in Southeast Dutch colonial years. The A full and detailed summary of the pre-independence history of Indonesia presented as a province by province timeline. The Spice Route End Independent Travel & Culture Guides to Indonesia Common historical accounts trace the development of Indonesian nationalist historiography to pre-war anti-colonial, historical-literary works and speeches of early nationalists like Muhammad Yamin, Sanusi Pane, and Sukarno (Reid 1979; Sartono 1982; Abdullah and Surjomihardjo 1985). The Roman historian Pliny the Elder 's Natural History suggests that, in the 1st century ce, Indonesian outriggers were engaged in trade with the east coast of Africa. Indonesian settlements may have existed at that time in Madagascar, an island with distinct Indonesian cultural traits. Here are ten famous historical places in Indonesia which you can visit and feed your curiosity. 1. Borobudur Temple. Borobudur Temple is the most famous and largest Buddhist temple in the world. Located in Magelang, Central Java, this temple is a witness of a great Buddhist kingdom, Ancient Mataram in the 9th century. 1825 The Javanese War begins. The Dutch take Pelambang in Sumatra. 1830 The Dutch win the Javanese War 1894 The Dutch capture Lombok 1905 The Dutch capture Sulawesi 1906 The Dutch conquer Bali 1942 The Japanese invade Indonesia 1945 August Sukarno declares Indonesian independence but the Dutch fight to subdue Indonesia On 6 and 9 August, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On 7 August, the Japanese announced the formation of a Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence(PPKI) to accelerate preparations for establishing an Indonesian government for the whole of the East Indies, not just Java. The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia. History of Indonesia Human history in Indonesia goes back at least 1.5-1.8 million years, as shown by the fossil "Java Man" - a Homo erectus individual discovered in 1891. Archaeological evidence suggests that Homo sapiens had walked across Pleistocene land bridges from the mainland by 45,000 years ago. fTmV.