* Sandaki overthrows Magha II as Mansa of the Mali Empire.

Mari Diata was succeeded by his sons Musa II ( 1374 – 1387 ) and Magha II ( 1387 – 1389 ).

Complex palindromes appear in the 19th canto of the 8th-century epic poem Śiśupāla-vadha by Magha.

In AD 1215, Kalinga Magha, a South Indian with uncertain origins, identified as the founder of the Jaffna kingdom, invaded and captured the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa with a 24, 000 strong army sailed 690 nautical miles on 100 large ships from Kalinga.

The invasion by Magha in the 13th century led to migrations by the Sinhalese to areas not under his control.

* Kalinga Magha from Kalinga Province in India lands in Sri Lanka with a force of 24, 000 men, to capture the city of Polonnaruwa and depose its King, Parakrama Pandya.

In Hindu astronomy, Regulus corresponds to the Nakshatra Magha.

He also began the Magha Puja ( มาฆบ ู ชา ) festival in the full moon of the third lunar month, to celebrate Buddha's announcement of his main principles.

They also went on to form more intimate matrimonial alliances with stronger South Indian kingdoms, until these matrimonial links superseded the local royal lineage and gave rise to the Kalinga invasion by King Kalinga Magha in 1214 and the eventual passing of power into the hands of a Pandyan King following the Arya Chakrawarthi invasion of Sri Lanka in 1284.

Makar Sankranti is celebrated in the Hindu Calendar month of Magha.

In Shimla District of Himachal Pradesh Makar Sankranti is known as Magha Saaja.

Hence this day marks the start of the month of Magha.

On Magha Saaja people wake up early in the morning and take ceremonial dips and shower in the water springs or Baolis.

Out of 2579 half-verses taken from Kalidasa, Magha, Bharavi, and Bilhana, each of the four admissible forms of shloka in the above order claims the following share: 2289, 116, 89, 85.

People celebrate ' Magha Pournami ' ( February ) as a holy day.

As a catalyst for change, Kalinga Magha is arguably one of the most significant rulers in Sri Lankan history.

In this connection two kings are mentioned, Kalinga Magha and Jaya Bahu, who had been in power forty years, apparently reckoned from the time of the military rule after Sahasa Malla.

It is not surprising therefore that this seat of scholarship produced great poets like Magha and astronomers like Brahmagupta.

Ketu is the lord of three nakshatras or lunar mansions: Ashvini, Magha and Mula.

It is the month of Magha and Phalguna or mid January to mid march in the calendar year.

He died on the Vasanta-pancami in the month of Magha.

Pilgrims in large numbers pour forth to Joranda fair held on full-moon day of Magha which falls in January – February every year.

* 484 – Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths.

* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor.

* 1424: Deva Raya II succeeds his father Veera Vijaya Bukka Raya as monarch of the Vijayanagara Empire

* 1446: Mallikarjuna Raya succeeds his father Deva Raya II as monarch of the Vijayanagara Empire

* January 14 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark succeeds her father, King Frederick IX, on the throne of Denmark.

* 590: Gregory the Great succeeds Pope Pelagius II ( who dies of plague ) as the 64th pope.

* October 16 – Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope, resulting in the first Year of Three Popes since 1605.

* December – Murad III succeeds ala lang Selim II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

* May 18 – Peter II succeeds Catherine I as Tsar of Russia.

* 476 BC: Archidamus II succeeds his grandfather Leotychides, who is banished to Tegea, as king of Sparta.

* 450 BC: Perdiccas II succeeds Alexander I as king of Macedonia ( approximate date ).

* Biri II succeeds Kade Alunu as King of the Kanem-Bornu Empire ( now eastern Chad and Nigeria ) and the Empire loses its land in present-day Chad to the Bilala.

* Abd ar-Rahmân II succeeds Musa II as ruler of the Ziyanid Dynasty in present-day western Algeria.

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* Maria II Zaccaria succeeds Peter of Saint Superan as ruler of the Principality of Achaea ( now southern Greece ).

* April – Balša III succeeds his father Đurađ II as ruler of the Principality of Zeta ( now the Republic of Montenegro ).

* Selim I succeeds Bayezid II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

* September 6 – Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

* November 8 – Suleiman II ( 1687 – 1691 ) succeeds the deposed Mehmed IV as Ottoman Emperor.

* June – Ahmed II ( 1691 – 1695 ) succeeds Suleiman II ( 1687 – 1691 ) as emperor of the Ottoman Empire.

* February 6 – Mustafa II ( 1695 – 1703 ) succeeds Ahmed II as Ottoman Emperor.