Khmer (Cambodian) History and Timeline

 

9th century

Year Date Event
802 Jayavarman II declared independence from Srivijaya under the Sailendra, proclaiming himself the divine king of Kambuja.
850 Jayavarman died. His son Jayavarman III succeeded him.
877 Jayavarman III died. He was succeeded by his cousin Indravarman I.
890 Indravarman died. His son Yasovarman succeeded him.

[edit] 10th century

Year Date Event
968 Jayavarman V succeeded Rajendravarman II as ruler of Kambuja, now the Khmer Empire.

[edit] 11th century

Year Date Event
1001 Jayavarman V died. He was succeeded by Udayadityavarman I.
1002 The king died. A civil war ensued between Jayaviravarman and Suryavarman I, both of whom claimed the throne.
1010 Suryavarman became the uncontested king of the Khmer Empire.
1050 Suryavarman died. He was succeeded by Udayadityavarman II, a descendant of Yasovarman's wife.
1066 Udayadityavarman died. Harshavarman III succeeded him.

[edit] 12th century

Year Date Event
1107 Jayavarman VI died. He was succeeded by Dharanindravarman I.
1113 Dharanidravarman died, possibly murdered by his great nephew Suryavarman II who succeeded him.
1132 An attempted invasion of Vietnam was defeated.
1150 Suryavarman died, possibly in a military campaign against the Cham of Central Vietnam. Dharanindravarman II succeeded him.
1160 Dharanindravarman died. He was succeeded by Yasovarman II.
1177 Cham invaders took control of Yasodharapura, the Khmer capital, and executed the king.

[edit] 13th century

Year Date Event
1203 Jayavarman forcibly annexed the south of Champa (today South Central Vietnam).
1219 Jayavarman died. He was succeeded by Indravarman II.
1238 Two Thai chieftains in the city of Sukhothai declared the establishment and independence of the Sukhothai Kingdom.
1243 Indravarman died. Jayavarman VIII succeeded him.
1283 Jayavarman agreed to pay tribute to the Mongol Empire in lieu of suffering invasion.

[edit] 14th century

Year Date Event

[edit] 15th century

Year Date Event
1431 The Thai invaded Angkor.

[edit] 16th century

Year Date Event
1593 King Sattha requested protection from the Spanish governor of the Philippines against the Thai.
1594 The Thai captured the Cambodian capital, Lovek, and installed a military governor there.
Sattha died.
1597 Spain installed a son of King Sattha on the Cambodian throne.
1599 The Spanish soldiers in Cambodia were massacred by Malay mercenaries.

[edit] 17th century

Year Date Event
1623 King Chettha II allowed Vietnamese refugees from the Trịnh-Nguyễn Civil War to settle in Prey Nokor.
1659 A Cambodian civil war was followed by a Vietnamese invasion.
1690 Cambodia was annexed by Vietnam.
1698 An emissary arrived in Prey Nokor to establish Vietnamese administration over the expatriate population.

[edit] 18th century

Year Date Event
1749 The Vietnamese conquered the Mekong Delta (Khmer Cochinchina).
1779 A new Khmer king, Ang Eng, was installed under Thai protection.

[edit] 19th century

Year Date Event
1820 A Khmer revolt took place against Vietnamese rule .
1841 Ang Duong became king.
1851 Cambodia successfully overthrew the Vietnamese occupation.
1860 Ang Duong died. His son Norodom succeeded him.
1863 Faced with a domestic rebellion, Norodom was forced to accept an offer of protection from the French.
1887 October Cambodia was subsumed into the Indochinese Union.
1897 The Résident supérieur was granted the royal powers of tax collection, rule by decree, and appointment of royal officials and crown princes.

[edit] 20th century

Year Date Event
1941 Japanese troops occupied Cambodia.
The king, Sisowath Monivong, died. The French chose his grandson Norodom Sihanouk to succeed him.
1945 After its defeat in World War II, Japan relinquished its Indochinese territories.
1953 November 9 Cambodia officially gained its independence from France.
1955 March 2 King Sihanouk abdicated in favour of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
1963 Aug 27 Cambodia severed ties with South Vietnam.
1970 March 18 General Lon Nol overthrew Sihanouk and established a republic. see Cambodian Campaign
1975 April 17 Cambodian Civil War: The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh and declared the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea.
1977 Dec 31 Cambodia broke relations with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1979 January 7 Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Vietnamese troops captured Phnom Penh. The Khmer Rouge is over.
1989 September 26 The last Vietnamese troops withdrew from Cambodia.
1992 March 16 A United Nations peacekeeping force, the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), began monitoring Cambodia.
1993 May Cambodia held free elections. The Khmer Rouge boycotted them.
September 24 A new constitution was ratified, under which the Cambodian monarchy was restored. Norodom Sihanouk returned to the throne.

[edit] 21st century

Year Date Event
2003 January 18 An Angkor newspaper reported that Suvanant Kongying, a Thai actress, had claimed that Angkor Wat rightfully belonged to Thailand.
January 28 Thai television programs were banned from broadcasting in Cambodia.
January 29 2003 Phnom Penh riots: Nationalist rioters destroyed the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh.
July 7 Cambodian parliamentary election, 2003: Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party won a majority of seats in the National Assembly.
2004 October 14 King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated. His son Norodom Sihamoni was crowned as his successor.

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