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500
Trading
The Khmer people and the Indians begin trading. -
Period: 500 to
Start and End Dates of Khmer Empire
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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