Trincomalee which is a natural deep-water harbour that has attracted seafarers like Marco Polo, Ptolemy and Sea Traders from China and East Asia since ancient times.

As such Trincomalee has served as an entrance to a western invader from Calcutta.

The Sri Lanka Army has its Security Forces Headquarters-East in Trincomalee.

The Eastern University of Sri Lanka, which has its main campus in Batticaloa, also has a campus in Trincomalee.

SLMM has its Headquarters in Colombo, and has six District Offices ( DO ) in the North and East: Mannar, Jaffna, Trincomalee, Batticaloa, Ampara and Vavuniya, as well as a Liaison Office in Kilinochchi.

In the northeast and the southwest, where the coast cuts across the stratification of the crystalline rocks, rocky cliffs, bays, and offshore islands can be found ; these conditions have created one of the world's best natural harbors at Trincomalee on the northeast coast, and a smaller rock harbor at Galle on the southwestern coast.

Another group, often termed East Coast Veddas, is found in coastal areas of the Eastern Province, between Batticaloa and Trincomalee.

* 1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee ( present-day Sri Lanka ) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

* Trincomalee, 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.

The money was amongst other things used to build a school in Marathenkerny, Sri Lanka and to rebuild the area of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.

Japanese forces captured Malaya ( now Malaysia ), Singapore and the Dutch East Indies forcing the remaining British warships to withdraw to Trincomalee, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) and in February, 1942 they were reconstituted into the British Eastern Fleet.

* Hoods Tower Naval Museum, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

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

Fremantle left the Swan River Colony on 25 August 1829, heading towards the British Army base of Trincomalee, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) where he was based the next couple of years.

The fleet withdrew first to Java and, following the Fall of Singapore, to Trincomalee, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ).

* Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese: around Batticaloa and Trincomalee ( Portuguese Burghers ) and Puttalam ( Kaffirs ).

Trincomalee ( Tirukōṇamalai, Trikuṇāmalaya ) is a major port city in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka and lies on the east coast of the island, about 113 miles south of Jaffna.

Sri Lankan naval ship at Trincomalee

Trincomalee War Cemetery, is one of the six commonwealth war cemeteries in Sri Lanka, it is maintained by Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence on behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

In the aftermath of the 2004 Asian Tsunami, Trincomalee was a focal point for relief efforts on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka.

Trincomalee is sacred to both Sri Lankan Tamils and Sinhalese people.

Trincomalee is on the eastern end of the A6 and A12 highways in Sri Lanka, as well as the northern end of the A15.

The Naval and Maritime Academy of the Sri Lanka Navy and the Air Force Academy of the Sri Lanka Air Force is situated in Trincomalee.

The Sri Lankan race psarodes is sometimes considered a distinct species although it is said to intergrade with jaffnense near Puttalam, Kekirawa and Trincomalee.

* AH44, 107 km ( 67 miles ); Dambulla, Sri Lanka ( on AH43 ) to Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

The intention had been to operate from Trincomalee, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ).

He then was ordered to Hong Kong and three years later moved to Trincomalee on Ceylon ( now called Sri Lanka ).

This corroborates Tirumular's Tirumandhiram, which describes him as hailing from Then Kailasam ( Koneswaram temple, Trincomalee ), and he famously visited the Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, where he wrote the Charana Shrungarahita Stotram on Nataraja.

Although the country gained independence, the British Royal Navy remained stationed at Trincomalee until 1956.

The railways connect the main cities of Kandy, Galle, Matara, Anuradhapura, Gampaha, Negombo, Kurunegala, Avissawella, Kalutara, Polonnaruwa, Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Badulla, Gampola, Nawalapitiya, Matale, Vavuniya, Puttalam and Chilaw with the Capital Colombo.

The destruction of the Koneswaram temple of Trincomalee in 1624 and Ketheeswaram temple accompanied an extensive campaign of destruction of five hundred Hindu shrines, the Saraswathi Mahal Library and forced conversion to Roman Catholicism in the Tamil country conducted by the Portuguese upon their conquest of the Jaffna kingdom.

The country witnessed battles of the Thirty Years ' War and general hostilities of the Eighty Years ' War ; Phillip II and III of Portugal and later the Dutch and English used forts built from the destroyed temples, including Fort Fredrick in Trincomalee, to fight sea battles with the Dutch, Danish, the French and English which saw the beginning of the loss of the sovereign Tamil nation-state on the island.

* August 25 – British forces capture Trincomalee in Ceylon.

In early 1782 British Admiral Sir Edward Hughes captured Trincomalee on the eastern coast of Ceylon, considered to be the finest harbour in the Bay of Bengal.

In August the French re-captured Trincomalee, and Suffren fought Hughes to a standstill in a naval battle several days later.

the pagoda was called " Giri-hadu-Saya " in present day Trincomalee.

The ancient Koneswaram temple of Trincomalee is heralded as " Dakshina Kailasam "/" Then Kailasam " ( Kailash of the South ) because it lies on exactly the same longitude as Mount Kailash and due to its pre-eminence in Saivite belief.

The fleet was founded when Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser struck his flag at Trincomalee as Commander-in-Chief of the British Eastern Fleet and hoisted it in the gunboat HMS Tarantula as Commander-in-Chief British Pacific Fleet.

The BPF operated against targets in Sumatra, gaining experience until early 1945, when it departed Trincomalee for Sydney.

When Admiral Somerville inspected the base at Trincomalee, its deficiencies were clear to him.

* HMS Naiad ( 1783 ) was the French corvette Naiade, which, a 64-gun third-rate, captured off Trincomalee on the night of 11 April 1783.

Between 1851 and 1856 he served in Ceylon, stationed at Trincomalee, where he provided distinguished assistance in designing the harbour.

" Chief Justice Sir Alexander Johnston wrote a detailed account on Yala in 1806 after travelling from Trincomalee to Hambantota.