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Portuguese arrive in Ceylon which attracts European's intrests

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Dutch arrive and take over Ceylon and forces Portuguese to leave

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Britain arrives at Ceylon and start to take over the island

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Football team formed / established

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Sri Lanka and British worked together to train farmers and to simplify produce distribution.

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Ceylon declares independence

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Indian Tamil plantations and it's workers are deprived of citizenship and are disenfranchised

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First Volleyball sports team is formed/created

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More than 100 Tamil people are killed in a spread of violence. They tried to protest about new laws.

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Opposition United National Party wins a lot of elections and tries to reverse socialism.

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Ceylon changes it's republic's name to Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka's official/primary religion is now Buddhism

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The first Cricket sports team is created

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Tamil Tigers are formed to try and make Sri Lanka into a independent Tamil state.

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Terrorists kill nearly 300 Sinhalese

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Tamil people prepare and young tamil people come together to fight against Sri Lankan government

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Peace Talks are ongoing to prevent war

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Tsunami hits and over 300,000 people are killed and the community is suffering to try and work together to repair what has been lost

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Sri Lankan government and Tamil people make a commitment to ceasefire.

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LTTE defeated