📜 Chronicle Lab

World History Archive

Follow the rise, rivalry, and legacy of historic states with a map-first archive built for students, researchers, and curious readers. Explore 191 documented rulers across 18 kingdoms.

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Rulers and dynastic records

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Kingdom profiles with context

⌛ 2000+

Years of connected timelines

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Featured Rulers

A rotating spotlight updates daily to surface influential rulers from different regions and eras.

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Sri Lanka

King Lanja Tissa

119–109 BCE

Lanja Tissa (119–109 BCE) governed during a period of internal court faction balancing after rapid turnover. His decade suggests adequate consolidatio...

Sri Lanka

King Kulasekhara

1255–1284 CE

Kulasekhara ruled Jaffna for 29 years, consolidating the Tamil kingdom's administration. He built Hindu temples, managed trade with South India, and p...

Sri Lanka

King Chandamukha Siva

43–52 CE

Chandamukha Siva (43–52 CE) reigned during a quieter mid-1st century CE interval. Textual sources imply steady maintenance of Buddhist establishments ...

Sri Lanka

King Kittisena

524 CE

Kittisena (524 CE) ruled momentarily, his reign lasting less than a year. The brevity indicates succession instability or health-related turnover. Lim...

Sri Lanka

King Dathopa Tissa I

614–623 CE

Dathopa Tissa I (614–623 CE) governed for nine years, maintaining administrative and religious continuity. His reign focused on irrigation maintenance...

Sri Lanka

King Vijaya Kumara

251–252 CE

Vijaya Kumara (251–252 CE) held an ephemeral one-year reign. The speed of succession indicates either elite contestation or health-related turnover. H...

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Historical Kingdoms

Compare how power expanded, fractured, and transformed across major kingdoms and empires.

Sri Lanka

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Tambapanni

Earliest recorded settlement under Vijaya, also known as Thammanna Nuwara.

Sri Lanka

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Upatissa Nuwara

Interim capital after Vijaya period

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Anuradhapura Kingdom

First major kingdom; irrigation & Buddhist center

India

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Maurya Empire

Emperor Ashoka sent his son, Mahinda Thero, and later his daughter, Sanghamitta Theri, to Sri Lanka to introduce Buddhism.

Sri Lanka

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Kelaniya Kingdom

A provincial kingdom with deep mythological and Buddhist significance. It was the capital of King Kelanitissa and the birthplace of Vihara Maha Devi.

Sri Lanka

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Ruhuna

Founded around 200 BC by Prince Mahanaga after a dispute with his brother, King Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura. Located in the south of Sri Lanka, it became a crucial center for Sinhalese culture and a base of resistance against invaders. Key cities included Magama and Tissamaharama.

Sri Lanka

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