Eastern Chalukyas
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Were a dynasty that ruled parts of South India between the 7th and 12th centuries.
Establishment
January 617: By about 616, Pulakeshin II and his brother Kubja Vishnuvardhana conquered Vengi from the Vishnukundinas.
Chronology
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Were a series of military expeditions by Kulothunga Chola I in the kingdom of Kalinga.
1.1.Chola invasion of Kalinga (1097)
In 1097, the army of Kalinga invaded the Eastern Chalukya kingdom which was then a vassal of the Chola Empire.
January 1098: In 1097, the army of Kalinga invaded the Eastern Chalukya kingdom which was then a vassal of the Chola Empire.
February 1098: In 1097, the army of Kalinga invaded the Eastern Chalukya kingdom which was then a vassal of the Chola Empire. The invasion was beaten back.
1.2.Chola invasion of Kalinga (1110)
The Chola invasion of Kalinga in 1110 CE was the second and more famous of the two campaigns against the Kingdom of Kalinga undertaken during the reign of Kulothunga Chola I.
January 1111: The Chola invasion of Kalinga in 1110 CE was the second and more famous of the two campaigns against the kingdom of Kalinga undertaken during the reign of Kulothunga Chola I. The forces led by the Pallava chief, Karunakara Tondaiman, achieved an easy victory over the army of Kalinga forcing its king, Anantavarman Chodaganga to flee.
February 1111: The Chola invasion of Kalinga in 1110 CE was the second and more famous of the two campaigns against the kingdom of Kalinga undertaken during the reign of Kulothunga Chola I. The forces led by the Pallava chief, Karunakara Tondaiman, achieved an easy victory over the army of Kalinga forcing its king, Anantavarman Chodaganga to flee.
Expansion during the rule of Simhana II of the Seuna.
January 1207: A 1206 inscription shows that by that year the Yadavas had conquered a part of the present-day Bijapur district.
January 1221: By 1220, Seuna Dynasty ruler Simhana had completed his conquest of the area to the north of the Tungabhadra River.
January 625: The Vishnukundina rule was brought to a close by 624.
January 637: During the reign of Pulakeshin II (r. c. 610-642 CE), the Chalukya kingdom expanded to cover most of the Deccan region in peninsular India.
January 936: The Eastern Chalukyas reach their maximum territorial extent.
January 936: The Chalukyas of Vengi defeated the Rashtrakuta emperor Govinda IV and expanded their territories, achieving the maximal extent of their empire.
January 1001: The Kalachuris of Ratnapura were a central Indian dynasty during 11th and 12th centuries. They ruled parts of present-day Chhattisgarh from their capital at Ratnapura (modern Ratanpur in Bilaspur district). They were an offshoot of the Kalachuris of Tripuri, and ruled as vassals of the parent dynasty for many years. The new branch was established by Kalingaraja around 1000 CE.
January 1006: Kalahandi was the largest of the 26 Feudatory states of Odisha. According to local tradition the state originated with Raja Raghunath Sai of the Naga dynasty beginning to rule the Kalahandi area in 1005, therefore the state's coat of arms had two cobras facing each other.
January 1039: By 1038 AD the Ganga Dynasty reigned over the entire region of Kalinga.
January 1051: Rajendra Chola I conquered Odisha.
January 1051: Rajaraja Chola I and Rajendra Chola I were the greatest rulers of the Chola dynasty, extending it beyond the traditional limits of a Tamil kingdom. At its peak, the Chola Empire stretched from the island of Sri Lanka in the south to the Godavari-Krishna river basin in the north, up to the Konkan coast in Bhatkal, the entire Malabar Coast (the Chea country) in addition to Lakshadweep, and Maldives.
February 1051: Rajendra Chola I occupied Odisha, but left the region after defeating the forces of the Pala Dynasty.
January 1109: After the fall of the Chalukya and Chola empires, the Samantarajas of Kota Vamsa became independent.
January 1164: Early Kakatiya rulers served as feudatories to Rashtrakutas and Western Chalukyas for more than two centuries. They assumed sovereignty under Prataparudra I in 1163 CE by suppressing other Chalukya subordinates in the Telangana region.
January 1241: Ganapati Deva significantly expanded Kakatiya lands during the 1230s when he launched a series of attacks outside the dynasty's traditional Telangana region and thus brought under Kakatiya control the Telugu-speaking lowland delta areas around the Godavari and Krishna rivers.
January 1251: Jatavarman Sundara I ascended the Pandya throne in 1251 CE. He led his army to the Chola country (even as far as Nellore), to Sri Lanka and to south Kerala.
January 1325: Bastar State was founded in the early 14th century, supposedly by a brother of the last ruler of the Kakatiya dynasty proper, Prataparudra II.
Disestablishment
January 1444: Vinayak Dev, a prince from Kashmir whose family claimed descent from the mythical Suryavanshis, established the little kingdom of Nandapur located in the Eastern Ghats in 1443.
