Timeline of Sri Lankan history

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.

Pre 90th century BC

YearDateEvents
500,000 BCHuman inhabitant in Sri Lanka[1]

19th century AD

YearDateEvent
1803First Kandyan War: British forces attack the Kingdom of Kandy after the King's Adigar Pilimatalawe defected.
18152 MarchKandyan Convention: The Kingdom of Kandy is ceded to the British in an agreement signed between British Governor Sir Robert Brownrigg and the Kandyan cheifs.
1817Great Rebellion of 1817–1818: The Kandyans rebel against British rule.
1833Colebrooke–Cameron Commission: Legal and economic reforms proposed, first manifestation of constitutional government. Legislative Council of Ceylon established.
1848Matale rebellion: Peasant revolt against imposition of taxes.
1864Rāmañña Nikāya established.

20th century AD

YearDateEvent
19151915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots
1931Donoughmore Commission: Established universal franchise in Ceylon, and the State Council of Ceylon was elected.
19484 FebruaryIndependence is gained as the Dominion of Ceylon.
19581958 anti-Tamil pogrom
19711971 JVP insurrection: Marxist insurrection conducted by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna against the government of Sri Lanka.
1972Sri Lanka becomes a republic.

Notes

    References

    1. Deraniyagala, Siran U. "Pre and Protohistoric settlement in Sri Lanka". International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. XIII U. I. S. P. P. Congress Proceedings- Forli, 8–14 September 1996. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
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