| 01/14 | Tamil Thai Pongal Day. |
| 01/31/96 | Colombo blast kills nearly 100 people, injures 1400. LTTE believed responsible. |
| 02/04/48 | Independence Day. |
| 05/01/93 | Assassination of President Ranasinghe Premadasa. |
| 05/13/97 | Government offensive begins to establish land link with Jaffna. |
| 05/14/85 | Tamil separatists kill more than 150 people in an attack on a Buddhist shrine at Anuradhapura. |
| 05/22/72 | Republic Day. Also known as National Heroes' Day. |
| 05/24 | Birth of Buddha. |
| 06/13/90 | The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) launch a renewed offensive against Sri Lankan government forces by storming at least 24 police stations in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. Several hundred police officers are taken hostage and a number of them later killed. |
| 07/20/86 | Sinhalese rioting. |
| 07/23/85 | The killing of 13 Sri Lankan soldiers in an ambush by Tamil militants touches off widespread anti-Tamil violence that leaves as many as 2000 Tamils dead and 100,000 homeless. |
| 07/29/87 | Indo-Sri Lankan peace accords. |
| 08/18/87 | Grenade attack on Sri Lankan parliament. One legislator is killed. |
| 09/04/92 | Dasain (Hindu) Festival. |
| 10/17/95 | Government offensive of the north begins. |
| 11/24/54 | LTTE founder's birthday. Prabhakaran birthday is marked by the LTTE as "Heroes Week," which also commemorates LTTE members who have died in battle. |
| 12/05/95 | Jaffna falls to government forces. |
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