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Original: Sri Lanka Vectorization: Zscout370, Mike Rohsopht · Public domain
Polity South Asia

Sinhalese kingdoms

Attested 800 CE – 1500 CE

Series of monarchies in Sri Lanka from 543 BCE to 1815 CE

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Sinhala kingdom on Wikipedia.

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How these dates were made

Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Sinhalese kingdoms appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

800 CE 3 snapshots · 692 years unattested at the widest 1500 CE
800 CE1492 CE1500 CE

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · South Asia

Temples of Bagan

849 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Tibet

Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Ghaznavid Conquests of India

1001 CE – 1030 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Bagan

849 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Sultanate of Delhi

1200 CE – 1526 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Pagan Empire Wars

1044 CE – 1287 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Hampi

1336 CE – 1565 CE

Polity · South Asia

Ghaznavid Emirate

Attested 1000 CE – 1200 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 800 CE and 1500 CE.

800 CE Kedarnath Temple 849 CE Temples of Bagan 849 CE Bagan 850 CE Arunachaleswarar Temple 950 CE Khajuraho Temples 1000 CE Calicut

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Silk Road Trade route · East Asia 200 BCE – 1450 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Charlemagne Figure · Frankish Empire 742 CE – 814 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Flag of Sri LankaOriginal: Sri Lanka Vectorization: Zscout370, Mike Rohsopht · Public domain
  • TibetUniversity of Texas Libraries · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • BaganCorto Maltese 1999 · CC BY 2.0
  • Delhi SultanateMaps created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain. Koba-chan Territorial area: प… · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • HampiiMahesh · CC BY-SA 4.0