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Khmer Empire

By michaelbattista
  • 500

    Trading

    The Khmer people and the Indians begin trading.
  • Period: 500 to

    Start and End Dates of Khmer Empire

  • Period: Jan 1, 770 to Jan 1, 834

    Establishment of Angkor

    Jayarvarman II unifies smaller states to create one large empire. The capital is in the Angkor region near Cambodia.
  • Jan 1, 802

    Jayarvarman enthroned

    Jayarvarman II enthroned as a Devaraja
  • Jan 1, 834

    Khmer Empire Expands

    Khmer Empire expands through trading and taking over land.
  • Period: Jan 1, 834 to Jan 1, 1145

    Khmer Empire and Angkor Wat

    Khmer Empire Expands and Angkor Wat is built. Buddhism becomes important
  • Jan 1, 889

    Angkor develops a main city

    Yasovarman 1 established a new capital city of Angkor, Yasodharapura. The city's central temple was built on Phnom Bakheng, a hill which rises around 60 m above the plain on which Angkor sits.
  • Jan 1, 1122

    Angkor's First Major Temple

    Construction begins of the Hindu temple at Angkor Wat.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1177 to Jan 1, 1178

    Cham Kingdom Invasion

    Cham Kingdom invades a lot of the Eastern part of Angkor
  • Period: Jan 1, 1181 to Jan 1, 1219

    Jayarvarman defeats the Chams

    Jayarvarman VII defeats the Chams and expands the empire to incorporate much of present day Laos, Thailand and Burma
  • Period: to

    Jayarvarman VIII wants a change in Religion

    Jayarvarman Announces that Buddhism should be eliminated and calls for all Buddhist temple and images to be destroyed and Hinduism becomes the main Religion