The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

* January 5 – Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan political theorist

* January 2 – Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa takes office as the third President of Sri Lanka

The ship from Europe arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 15 January 1897.

Sri Lanka also has some off-season rambutan production in the months of January and February in areas like Bibile, Medagama and Monaragala.

Controversy dogged the tournament before any games were played, however, when Australia and the West Indies refused to send their teams to Sri Lanka following the Central Bank bombing by the Tamil Tigers in January, citing security concerns.

Chaminda Ushantha Vaas Thennakoon ( born January 27th 1974 ) is a former cricket player for Sri Lanka.

* 1998, January 25: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) terrorists commit a deadly suicide attack on Sri Lanka's most sacred Buddhist site and a UNESCO World Heritage centre: the Temple of the Tooth, where Buddha's tooth relic is enshrined.

In October 1997 they bombed the Sri Lankan World Trade Centre and, in January 1998, detonated a truck bomb in Kandy, damaging the Temple of the Tooth, one of the holiest Buddhist shrines in the world.

The organization was born out of a Commonwealth Conference of Foreign Ministers, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in January 1950.

On January 29, 2007, Tan Sri Datuk Tiong released a proposal to merge the three media groups-Sin Chew Media Corporation Berhad ( Malaysia ), Nanyang Press Holdings Berhad ( Malaysia ) and Ming Pao Enterprise Corporation Limited ( Hong Kong ).

In January 2007, Bowden became the youngest umpire to officiate in 100 ODIs during the New Zealand and Sri Lanka match at Hamilton, which corresponded exactly with his first ODI in 1995.

Rock submitted a report about child soldiers in Sri Lanka on January 15, 2007 to the UN.

Ranasinghe Premadasa ( ) ( June 23, 1924 – May 1, 1993 ) was the 3rd President of Sri Lanka from January 2, 1989 to May 1, 1993.

However, Gage instructed him to base the Success in Trincomalee Harbour, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), where he arrived on 4 January 1828.

John Arbuthnot Fisher was born on 25 January 1841 on the Wavenden Estate at Rambodde in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ).

The breeding season for sloth bears varies according to location: in India, they mate in April, May and June, and give birth in December and early January, while in Sri Lanka, it can be done all year.

According to Paramahansa Yogananda in his work the Autobiography of a Yogi, it was on the Kumbha Mela in January 1894 at Allahabad that his Guru Sri Yukteswar met Mahavatar Babaji for the first time.

The ambassador designate of Sri Lanka in Bucharest was Clarence Felician Chinniah until his death in January 2009.

* The Nectar of the Lord's Feet: Final Teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Discourses January – November 1980.

The attack took place on January 31, 1996, Sri Lankan city of Colombo.

The breeding season in southern India is January to April and February to March in Sri Lanka.

In January 2007 the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation celebrated 40 years as a public corporation.

The peak season in southern India is April to May, January to March in Sri Lanka and June in northern India.

* 1996 – 1997: " Pepsi: There's nothing official about it " ( During the Wills World Cup ( cricket ) held in India / Pakistan / Sri Lanka )

Sri Lanka: Collective Identities Revisited ( Colombo-Marga Institute, 1997 ).

Delhi, Sri Satguru Publications, 1997 +

Countries that are at this stage ( Total Fertility Rate of less than 2. 5 in 1997 ) include: United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, all of Europe, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Singapore, Iran, China, Turkey, Thailand and Mauritius.

Expansion led to the opening of the Kuala Lumpur city campus in 1997, followed by campuses in Karachi, Pakistan ( 1998 ), Colombo, Sri Lanka ( 2000 ), Lahore, Pakistan ( 2000 ), Panipat, India ( 2001 ) and Perth, Australia ( 2004 ).

During the Asian financial crisis in 1997, Celcom's owner, Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli suffered a debt crunch, and his shareholding in Celcom was seized by Danaharta, the national asset restructuring company.

The sixth edition was held in Sri Lanka in 1997.

The Kotte Urban Council became the Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte Municipal Council in 1997, with Chandra Silva as the first Mayor.

A state funeral was arranged for Mother Teresa on her deathbed on 5 September 1997, Sri Sathya Sai Baba on his death on 27 April 2011 and for Vilasrao Deshmukh on 15th August, 2012.

* Sri Palataka ( Mr. Escapist ), 1997

* Debut: 1st Test, Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan, Colombo, April 1997.

* Debut: Sri Lanka vs. South Africa, Lahore, November 1997.

Nehra started playing first-class cricket for his hometown, Delhi, in the 1997 / 1998 season and made his Test debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1999 and his ODI debut against Zimbabwe at Harare in 2001.

His final game in a Test match for Pakistan, was as captain in the 1996 – 1997 tour of Sri Lanka, however the team failed to win a match during the series.

He got a second chance at captaincy when, immediately in the next season in 1996 – 1997, he led the Pakistan team for the second time in two Test match against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka, but failed to achieved a win.

On 21 April 1997, in a Test match against Sri Lanka, Ijaz Ahmad was at the crease on 97, when the famous run out attempt by Sri Lankan fielder, Romessh Kaluwitharana, brought ambigouty in the decision.

Mahela Jayawardene is the 69th Sri Lanka Test Cap Lanka Vs India at Colombo 1997.