State · 1469 – 1815

Kingdom of Kandy

A state of 1469 – 1815 — 346 years in South Asia. It replaced Kingdom of Kotte and Kingdom of Sitawaka. It was replaced by British Ceylon. The atlas records 10 things within it — wars and battles 2 · people 8. Its line of rulers holds 14 people. Its own article says it was conquered by British Empire.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 346 years; 1469 – 1815
Rulers: 14; the King of Kandy
Within it: 10; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Kingdom of Kotte · replaces · 1412 – 1597
Kingdom of Sitawaka · replaces · 1521 – 1594

After it

British Ceylon · replaced by

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by British Empire, 1815. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The kingdom was absorbed into the British Empire as a protectorate following the Kandyan Convention of 1815, and definitively lost its autonomy following the Uva Rebellion of 1817.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of King of Kandy - the office this state names as its head of state.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Sena Sammatha Wickramabahu of Kandy	1469 – 1511	42 years	ending not on record
Jayaweera Astana of Kandy	1511 – 1552	41 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Karaliyadde Bandara of Kandy	1552 – 1582	30 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Kusumasana Devi	1581 – 1581	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Rajasinha I	1581 – 1591	10 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Vimaladharmasuriya I	1592 – 1604	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Senarat of Kandy	1604 – 1635	31 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Rajasinha II	1635 – 1687	52 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Vimaladharmasuriya II	1687 – 1707	20 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Vira Narendra Sinha	1707 – 1739	32 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Sri Vijaya Rajasinha of Kandy	1739 – 1747	8 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Kirti Sri Rajasinha	1747 – 1782	35 years	died by accidentWikidata's manner of death
Rajadhi Rajasinha of Kandy	1782 – 1798	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Sri Vikrama Rajasinha	1798 – 1815	17 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article

14 rulers, 14 with terms dated as terms, covering 1469 – 1815. Median reign 25 years. 1 of 13 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedKing of Kandy · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1500 – 15993 rows

Kusumasana Devi · ruler · 1560 – 1613
Rajasinha I · ruler · 1544 – 1593
Vimaladharmasuriya I · ruler · 1550 – 1604

1600 – 16992 rows

Rajasinha II · ruler · 1608 – 1687
Vimaladharmasuriya II · ruler · 1650 – 1707

1700 – 17995 rows · 2 wars and battles

Sri Vikrama Rajasinha · ruler · 1780 – 1832
Battle of Providien · battle · 1782
Battle of Trincomalee · battle · 1782
Vira Narendra Sinha · ruler · 1707 – 1739
Kirti Sri Rajasinha · ruler · 1734 – 1782

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood346 years
stood longer than 77% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median30 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 83% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record14
has more rulers on record than 87% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1434 – 1850, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1642, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1530762 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.