1505 Portuguese arrive in Ceylon ( one Tamil kingdom, Two sinhala kingdoms were there )
1619 Tamil sovereignty ends when Portuguese defeats the Tamil king and annex the Jaffna kingdom.
1796 British arrive in Ceylon.
1833 For the first time in over 2,500 years of its recorded history, the entire island of Ceylon is brought under a single administration based on the recommendations of the Colebrook-Cameron Report.
1948 The British leave and Ceylon becomes a self-governing dominion with a government dominated by the Sinhalese elite assuming power
more than a million Tamil plantation workers of Indian origin disenfranchised and stateless. --------------------------------
1951 First convention of the Federal Party (FP), declaring its intention to campaign for a federal structure of governance, and for regional autonomy for Tamils living in North and East.
1956- Sinhala only Act passed in Parliament.. Anti -Tamil Riots kills many Tamils..
1958 Prime Minister Bandaranaike and FP leader Chelvanayagam sign a pact to give federal powers to Tamils
Pact scrapped after a WEEK...
1967 Janata Vimukthi Peramuna formed...Anti INDIA PARTY...
1972 A small youth group named Tamil New Tigers (TNT) is formed in the Jaffna peninsula to fight for Tamil rights by a 17-year-old high school student from Valvettiturai named Prabhaharan
1976 TUF is renamed Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and passes the "Vaddukoddai resolution"
