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Around 400 bce, Khmer and Indian people began trading. This would then go on to influence Khmer culture and religion since Hinduism and Buddhism came from the Indians.
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Around 500 bce, Khmer people started using iron to make weaponry and tools.
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1177-78
Cham Kingdom invades Much of the Khmer Empires eastern territory. -
1181-1219
Jayavarman VII defeats the Chams and expands the Khmer Empire to its furthest extent to incorporate much of modern day Laos, Thailand and Burma. -
1243-98
Rule of Jayavarman VII. He renounces Buddhism and orders that Buddhist temples and realted images are to be destroyed, and that Hinduism is to become the main religion. -
Around 1200, the Empire began to fall since the empire was so big, paying all of the people including military was a big ask – at the time King Jayavarman VII was King.
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Buddhism grows in importances and once again becomes the main religion of the Khmer Empire.
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1431
Thai army attacks Angkhor.
1432
Khmers abandoned Angkhor. -
Khmer ruler relocates the captial to Phnom Penh
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Siamese (Thai) King attacks and defeats Khmer King
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Japanese draw plan of Angkor Wat
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Vietnamese armies attack Khmer forces in the Mekong River and defeat the Khmer. The approximate borders of modern Cambodia are now determined.
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Major restoration of Angkor Wat occurs
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Jayavarman II declares in dependence from Java, proclaims that he is the "Devine King" of Kamuja
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Reign of King Yasovarman I (The Leper King)
