** Sinhalese New Year, or Aluth Avurudhu ( Sri Lanka )

** Tamil New Year, or Puthandu ( India's Tamil Nadu state, Sri Lanka )

** Sri Lanka Telecom Inter-Provincial matches

** Sri Lanka ' A ' ( or another team designated by Sri Lanka Cricket ) versus a touring ' A ' team

** Presidents of Sri Lanka

** Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka

** Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer

** A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka.

** Sri Lankan civil war – Battle of Pooneryn: Over 400 Sri Lankan military are killed.

** Sri Chinmoy, Bengali spiritual teacher, poet, artist and athlete who immigrated to the U. S. in 1964 ( d. 2007 )

** Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving The Mother to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.

** T. B. Ilangaratne, Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor and politician ( d. 1992 )

** Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka

** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.

** Central Bank bombing: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 and injuring 1, 400.

** Ranabima Royal College is established in Sri Lanka.

** Ceylon becomes the republic of Sri Lanka under prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, when its new constitution is ratified.

** Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer

** Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Indian guru

** Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( assassinated ) ( d. 2005 )

** Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sri Lanka join the United Nations simultaneously, after several years of moratorium on admitting new members that began during the Korean War.

** The socialist party of Sri Lanka, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, is founded.

** A Spanish-facilitated ceasefire begins in Sri Lanka.

** Sri Lanka Muslim Congress

** The Buddhist areas of Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand are identified as separate from other civilizations, but Huntington believes that they do not constitute a major civilization in the sense of international affairs.

** Bhutan, People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka

** Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill Ocyceros gingalensis

** Naga people ( Sri Lanka )

** The 12th century Khmer temple Angkor Wat contains a dramatic depiction in bas-relief of the Battle of Lanka between Ravana's Rakshasas and Rama's monkeys.

** Languages of Sri Lanka

** The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature:

** Maatu Pongal, celebrated by performing Jallikattu ( Tamil )

** Bhogi ( Tamil )

** Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet ( d. 1921 )

** Jayakanthan, Tamil writer

** Tamil Maanila Congress

** All Ceylon Tamil Congress

** History of Tamil Nadu

** Kezhvaragu ( க ே ழ ் வரக ு), kay. pai ( க ே ப ் ப ை), Aariyam ( ஆர ி யம ்)( Tamil )

** Tamil " Aan "," Pen " " Man, Woman, ( Male, Female )" ( Singular ) – AanKal, Penkal " Two or more Man, Woman ( Males, Females )

** Koozh is a millet porridge commonly sold in Tamil Nadu.

** Karunya University ( Tamil Nadu, India )

** Tamil cuisine

** Tamil cuisine

** Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

** Tamil poetry

** Australian Aboriginal — African — Afrikaans — Algonquian — Arabic — Bengali — Chinese — Czech — Dutch — Etruscan — French — German — Greek — Hawaiian — Hebrew — Hindi — Hungarian — Irish — Italian — Japanese — Korean — Latin — Malay — Malayalam — Maori — Nahuatl — Norwegian — Old Norse — Persian — Polish — Portuguese — Punjabi — Quechua — Russian — Sanskrit — Scots — Scottish Gaelic — Spanish — Swedish — Tamil — Turkic — Ukrainian — Urdu — Yiddish

** the Tamil Language ( Special Provisions ) Act No. 28 of 1958 ( Ceylon ) passed in Ceylon in 1958 allows Tamil in education, public service entrance exams and administration in the Northern and Eastern provinces

** the Official Languages Act of 1987 ( Sri Lanka ) passed in Sri Lanka in 1987 to make Tamil an official language of the country

** In India similar articles of clothing are the in Manipur, dhoti ( or dhuti in West Bengali, veshtti in Tamil, pancha in Telugu, panche in Kannada and Mundu in Malayalam ).