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Vijayanagara Empire

Hindu kingdom in Southern India (14th-17th century)

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14th century

  • 1336April 18 (unconfirmed) – Brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya found the Vijayanagara Empire on the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in South India.source
  • 1356Harihara I, founder of the Vijayanagara Empiresource
  • 1365In modern-day southern India, Bahmani Sultan Mohammed Shah I invades the Vijayanagara Empire.source
  • 1366War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in modern-day southern India.source
  • 1377February 24 – In southern India, Harihara II succeeds Bukka Raya I, as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire at its capital, Vijayanagara (now Hampi in Karnataka state).source

15th century

  • 1404Virupaksha Raya succeeds Harihara Raya II, as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in modern-day southern India.source
  • 1404July 27 – In Southern India, Bukka Raya II becomes the new ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in what are the modern-day Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.source
  • 1432February 13 – The 42 ft tall Statue of Gommateshwara is consecrated by King Veera Pandya in the Indian city of Karkala, capital of the Vijayanagara Empire and now part of the Karnataka state.source
  • 1496November 27 – Led by Prince Prataparudra Deva, son of the Emperor Purushottama Deva, the Gajapati Empire (now India's state of Odisha) invades the Vijayanagara Empire (now the Karnataka state) and its armies advance as far as the Penna River, where they are stopped by a force commanded by the Vijayanagara sultan Tuluva Narasa Nayaka, and are turned back.source
  • 1500Medieval India is divided between many kingdoms, including the Delhi Sultanate, Lodi Sultanate, Ahom Kingdom, Vijayanagara Empire, Gajapati Empire, Deccan Sultanates, Chitradurga Kingdom, Garhwal Kingdom, Mysore Kingdom, and the Keladi Kingdomsource
  • 1500Vijayanagara in the Vijayanagara Empire had about 500,000 inhabitants (supporting 0.1% of the global population during 1440–1540), making it the second largest city in the world after Beijing and almost three times the size of Paris.source

16th century

  • 1505Viranarasimha Raya succeeds Narasimha Raya II as king of Vijayanagara Empire (reigns until 1509)source
  • 1505Narasimha Raya II, king of Vijayanagara Empiresource
  • 1509Viranarasimha Raya king of Vijayanagar empiresource
  • 1509July 26 – Krishnadevaraya ascends the throne of the Vijayanagara Empire.source
  • 150926 July – Krishnadevaraya starts his reign as Emperor of the Vijayanagara Empiresource
  • 1510June 27 – Kempe Gowda I feudatory ruler under the Vijayanagara Empire is born (died 1569)source
  • 1529Krishnadevaraya ends his reign as emperor of Vijayanagara Empire.source
  • 1529Achyuta Deva Raya, brother of Krishnadevaraya, begins his reign as emperor of Vijayanagara Empire.source
  • 1529Krishnadevaraya, emperor of Vijayanagara Empire (born 1471).source
  • 1542Sadasiva Raya becomes the emperor of Vijayanagara Empire following the killing of his nephew Venkata I (until 1569)source
  • 1542Venkata I becomes the emperor of Vijayanagara Empire following the death of his father Achyuta Deva Rayasource
  • 1542Achyuta Deva Raya emperor of Vijayanagara Empire (born 1529)source
  • 1553February 17 – In India, Timmaraja Wodeyar II becomes the sixth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore (a vassal state of the Vijayanagara Empire), after the death of his father, the Maharaja Chamaraja Wodeyar III.source
  • 1565Tirumala Deva Raya becomes king of Vijayanagara Empire following Aliya Rama Raya's death (reigns until 1572)source
  • 1565Aliya Rama Raya progenitor of the Aravidu dynasty of Vijayanagara Empiresource
  • 1565January 23 – Battle of Talikota: The Vijayanagara Empire, the last Hindu kingdom in South India, is greatly weakened by the Deccan sultanates.source
  • 1569Aliya Rama Raya becomes emperor of Vijayanagara Empiresource
  • 1569Sadasiva Raya rule as the emperor of Vijayanagara Empire ends with his death (started 1542)source
  • 1569Sadasiva Raya, emperor of Vijayanagara Empiresource

17th century

  • 1639August 22 – The British East India Company buys a strip of land from King Peda Venkata Raya of the Vijayanagara Empire for the construction of Fort St. George, the first settlement of British India, so founding modern-day Chennai, capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu (celebrated as Madras Day).source

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