📍 Place
Colombo
👑 Capital of 4 kingdoms and empires · 9 events here
The large dot is this place; small dots are places within 80 km.
Through time
👑 Ruled from here
1597 – 1658Portuguese CeylonCapital: Colombo1658 – 1796Dutch CeylonCapital: Colombo1796 – 1948British CeylonCapital: Colombo1948 – 1972Dominion of CeylonCapital: Colombo
What happened here within 25 km
- 1412 Parakramabahu VI unifies Sri Lanka from Kotte · Kingdom of Kotte
- 1505 Portuguese reach Sri Lanka · Kingdom of Kotte
- 1656 ⚔ Dutch take Colombo from the Portuguese · Dutch Ceylon
- 1796 ⚔ British take coastal Ceylon from the Dutch · British Ceylon
- 1948 Ceylon becomes independent · Dominion of Ceylon
- 1956 Sinhala Only Act · Dominion of Ceylon
- 1972 Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka · Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
- 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Accord · Republic of India
- 2022 Sri Lankan economic crisis and Aragalaya protests · Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka