High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · War
1042
Ly Thai Tong defeats Champa and captures its king
1042
The Vietnamese emperor launched a devastating campaign against the Cham kingdom to the south, sacking the Cham capital and capturing its king. The victory asserted Ly dynasty dominance over the central Vietnamese coastline and inaugurated a centuries-long process of Vietnamese expansion southward that would eventually absorb the entire Cham civilization.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.