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This is a timeline of Sri Lankan history, comprising important & territorial changes and political & economic events in Sri Lanka and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Sri Lanka .
Sri Lanka Inscriptions Database of Sri Lankan inscriptions; Peace and Conflict Timeline (PACT) – interactive timeline of the Sri Lankan conflict; 1956 – A Year of National and Religious Awakening; Repression of Buddhism in Sri Lanka by the Portuguese (1505–1658) Archived 25 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine; Two volumes of history by J ...
Timeline of Sri Lankan history; Y. List of years in Sri Lanka This page was last edited on 21 August 2024, at 18:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Kingdom played a major role throughout the history of Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1476. [1] The kingdom located in the central part of Sri Lanka managed to remain independent from both the Portuguese and Dutch rule who controlled coastal parts of Sri Lanka; however, it was colonised by the British in 1815. [2]
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The Sinhala kingdom ceased to exist by 1815, following the British takeover.While the Sinhala kingdom is claimed to have existed from 543 BCE to 1815 CE, other political entities claimed to have co-existed in Sri Lanka spanning certain partial periods, including the Jaffna kingdom (which existed 1215–1624 CE), [5] Vanni chieftaincies (which existed from the 12th century to 1803 CE) and the ...
The Sri Lankan military estimates that up to 22,000 LTTE militants were killed in the last three years of the conflict. [31] While Gotabhaya Rajapaksa confirmed that 6,261 personnel of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces had died and 29,551 were wounded during the Eelam War IV since July 2006.
Timeline of Sri Lankan history 1815 in Sri Lanka marks the turn from the Kandyan period to the British Ceylon period , when the Kingdom of Kandy was disestablished and the creation of British Ceylon as the sole polity on the island.