List of wars involving Sri Lanka

• The whole Chola force with the generals retreated.

• Rashtrakuta forces were defeated in kayts
• General sena and Rashtrakutas have an alliance after the defeat

• Anuradhapura Kingdom destroyed by the Chola dynasty
• Rajarata annexed as a Chola province
• Polonnaruwa made as the administrative capital of the Chola in Sri Lanka

• Chola stronghold in Pegu lost to Polonnaruwa
• Pathein and Pegu occupied by the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa
• Angkorian Empire occupies certain parts of Pagan Kingdom
• Grant of land to Sinhalese commanders

• Parakramabahu I and Vira Pandyan conquer the Pandya dynasty
• Rameshwaram occupied by Sinhalese and Pandyan forces

• Pandyan empire conquered by Parakramabahu I and Vira Pandyan of the Pandya dynasty

 

Supported by:
Vijayanagar Empire

• Kotte captures the Jaffna kingdom
• Parakramabahu VI appoints Prince Sapumal as a representative of Kotte in Jaffna

 

• Lascarins

 Kingdom of Kotte

• End of the kingdoms of Kotte, Sitawaka, Jaffna and Raigama
• Establishment then destruction of Portuguese Ceylon
• Sinhalese and Dutch divide territories of the island
• Establishment of Dutch Ceylon

 

 

Supported by:
Thanjavur Nayak kingdom

• Cankili II imprisoned and executed by the Portuguese
• Fall of the Jaffna kingdom

Supported by:
 Crown of Castile
(until 1640)
Kingdom of Cochin
Potiguara Tupis

• Formation of the Dutch Empire
• Portuguese Restoration War
• Portuguese victory in South America and Africa
• Dutch victory in the East

 

•  Dutch East India Company

• French expelled from all occupied territories
• Expansion of Dutch Ceylon, offensives of Rajasinha II repelled

 

•  Dutch East India Company

• Treaty of Batticaloa
• Dutch occupation of Kandy until the Treaty of Batticaloa
• All coastal regions ceded to the Dutch

• Vanni region liberated from Dutch rule

• Kandyan convention signed between the British and the Kandyan chiefs, abolishing the Kandyan monarchy
• Vanni region lost to the British
• End of 2357 years of Sinhalese independence

 

•  British Ceylon

 

•  British Ceylon

 

 South African Republic

Foreign volunteers from:

•  Netherlands
•  German Empire
•  Belgium
• France
•  United States
• Italy
•  Russian Empire
• Russian Poland
• Sweden
•  Denmark

• Treaty of Vereeniging:
  • All Boers to surrender arms and swear allegiance to the Crown
  • Dutch language permitted in education
  • Promise to grant Boer republics self-government
  • £3,000,000 compensation "reconstruction aid" to Afrikaners

•  British Empire
  •  British Ceylon
•  Belgium
•  France
•  Kingdom of Greece
•  Portugal
•  Kingdom of Romania
•  Russian Empire
•  Kingdom of Italy
•  Japan
• United States
•  Kingdom of Serbia
•  Kingdom of Montenegro

•  Austria-Hungary
•  German Empire
• German Empire
•  Ottoman Empire
•  Kingdom of Bulgaria

• Treaty of Versailles:
• German demobilization

Treaties of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Trianon:

• Demise of Austria-Hungary

Russia pulls out in 1917

• Russian Civil War
  • Creation of the Soviet Union
    • Joseph Stalin Rises to power

Creation of League of Nations:

• Mesopotamia ceded from the Ottoman Empire
• Palestine and Jordan ceded from the Ottoman Empire
• Tanganyika ceded from Germany
• Part of Kamerun ceded from Germany
• Part of Togoland ceded from Germany
• German New Guinea ceded to Australia
• German Samoa ceded to New Zealand
• German South-West Africa ceded to South Africa

•  British Empire
  •  British Ceylon
•  France
•  Poland
•  Belgium
•  Netherlands
•  Luxembourg
•  Czechoslovakia
•  Norway
•  Kingdom of Greece
•  Kingdom of Yugoslavia
•  Soviet Union
•  United States
•  Nepal
•  Union of South Africa
•  Brazil
•  China

•  Nazi Germany
•  Kingdom of Italy
•  Hungary
•  Empire of Japan
•  Kingdom of Bulgaria
•  Croatia
•  Kingdom of Romania
•  Manchukuo
•  Mengjiang
•  Finland
•  Thailand
•  Vichy France

• Fall of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan
• Allied military occupations of Germany, Japan, Austria and foundation of the Italian Republic in place of the Kingdom of Italy
• Beginning of the Nuclear Age
• Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War

 

•  British Ceylon

 

•  British Ceylon

• United Front
  • SLFP
  • CCP (Pro-Soviet)
  • LSSP

Military support:
 India
 Pakistan
 Soviet Union

Supported by:
 North Korea (alleged)

• Rebel forces surrender
• Ceylonese government reestablishes control over the island

Supported by:  India (until 1987)

• Decisive victory by the Sri Lankan government
• Rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organisation is wiped out
• Sri Lankan government reestablishes control over entire island
• Tamil National Alliance drops the demand for a separate state

 

 

Pro-government paramilitaries: Eagles of the Central Hills
Black Cats

• Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya
• IUSF

Supported by:  North Korea
PLOTE (until 1988)

• Emergency conditions in South, Western and Central provinces lifted
• Insurgency fails following the fall of the Eastern bloc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supported by:
 Seychelles

•  Houthi movement

• SLNS Gajabahu completes its maiden patrol of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and is set to return to the island.^[1][2]
• Government of Sri Lanka confirms that future patrols would take place.^[3]