⚔ Battle · ★ Major
Sri Lankan civil war begins
1983 – present · 📍 Jaffna
Where it happened.
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 1979 ⚔ Soviet intervention in Afghanistan · Afghanistan
- 1984 Assassination of Indira Gandhi · Republic of India
- 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy · Republic of India
- 1984 ⚔ Operation Blue Star · Republic of India
- 1984 Rakesh Sharma flies to space · Republic of India
- 1985 SAARC founded at Dhaka
- 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Accord · Republic of India
- 1991 Economic liberalisation · Republic of India
Alive at the time
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1890 – 1988
'Frontier Gandhi' who led the Khudai Khidmatgars
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay1903 – 1988
Freedom fighter who revived Indian handicrafts
J. R. D. Tata1904 – 1993
Founded Tata Airlines, India's first airline, in 1932
Aruna Asaf Ali1909 – 1996
Hoisted the Congress flag at Gowalia Tank on 9 August 1942
Mother Teresa1910 – 1997
Nobel Peace laureate who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata
Faiz Ahmad Faiz1911 – 1984
Urdu poet of 'Hum Dekhenge'
Tenzing Norgay1914 – 1986
Summited Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953
Rani Gaidinliu1915 – 1993
Naga spiritual and political leader who resisted British rule
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🗂 Era 1
- Modern IndiaPart of this era
⏳ Periods 1
- Republic of IndiaBelongs to this period
🏛 Kingdoms & empires 8
- Kingdom of Nepal 1816 – 2008Existed at the same time (36 years)
- Kingdom of Bhutan 1907 – presentExisted at the same time (54 years)
- Republic of India 1950 – presentExisted at the same time (54 years)
- Republic of Maldives 1968 – presentExisted at the same time (54 years)
- Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1971 – presentExisted at the same time (54 years)
- People's Republic of Bangladesh 1971 – presentExisted at the same time (54 years)
- Afghanistan 1973 – presentExisted at the same time (53 years)
- Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal 2008 – presentExisted at the same time (18 years)
👑 Rulers 6
- J. R. Jayewardene 1978 – 1989Ruled it
- Chandrika Kumaratunga 1994 – 2005Ruled it
- Mahinda Rajapaksa 2005 – 2015Ruled it
- Maithripala Sirisena 2015 – 2019Ruled it
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa 2019 – 2022Ruled it
- Ranil Wickremesinghe 2022 – 2024Ruled it
⚔ Events 4
- Sri Lankan civil war begins 1983Happened in it
- End of the Sri Lankan civil war 2009Happened in it
- Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka 1972Happened in it
- Sri Lankan economic crisis and Aragalaya protests 2022Happened in it
🔧 Technology 3
- Chandrayaan-1 22 October 2008Made or discovered in this time
- Mars Orbiter Mission 5 November 2013Made or discovered in this time
- UPI: instant digital payments 25 August 2016Made or discovered in this time
📚 Books 1
- A History of Sri Lanka K. M. de SilvaRecommended reading