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400
Well developed trade relations between India and Khmer
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. -
500
Use of Iron
Around 500 bce, Khmer people started using iron to make weaponry and tools. -
Nov 26, 1000
1000 CE
1177-78
Cham Kingdom invades Much of the Khmer Empires eastern territory. -
Nov 26, 1100
1100 CE
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. -
Sep 26, 1200
1200 CE
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. -
Nov 30, 1200
Empire's power declines due to it becoming bankrupt
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. -
Nov 26, 1300
1300 CE
Buddhism grows in importances and once again becomes the main religion of the Khmer Empire. -
Nov 26, 1400
1400 CE
1431
Thai army attacks Angkhor.
1432
Khmers abandoned Angkhor. -
Nov 26, 1440
1400 CE
Khmer ruler relocates the captial to Phnom Penh -
1500 CE
Siamese (Thai) King attacks and defeats Khmer King -
1600 CE
Japanese draw plan of Angkor Wat -
1700 CE
Vietnamese armies attack Khmer forces in the Mekong River and defeat the Khmer. The approximate borders of modern Cambodia are now determined. -
1900
Major restoration of Angkor Wat occurs -
Begining of the Khmer Empire
Jayavarman II declares in dependence from Java, proclaims that he is the "Devine King" of Kamuja -
889-910 CE
Reign of King Yasovarman I (The Leper King)
