Western Chalukya Empire
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Was an empire that ruled most of the western Deccan, South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries.
Establishment
January 974: Tailapa II, a feudatory of the Rashtrakuta ruling from Tardavadi province in modern Bijapur district, declared himself independent and established the Western Chalukya Empire.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 983: With the fall of the Rashtrakutas, their feudatories and related clans in the Deccan and northern India declared independence. The Western Chalukyas annexed Manyakheta.
January 991: Kokalla I appears to have been the first powerful ruler of the Kalachuris of Tripuri dynasty, as he finds regular mentions in the genealogies of the later Kalachuri rulers.
January 999: As a result of this defeat, the Paramaras lost their southern territories to the Chalukyas.
January 1001: Munja's brother Sindhuraja (Paramara Dynasty) defeated the Western Chalukya king Satyashraya, and recovered the southern territories beyond the Narmada river.
January 1039: By 1038 AD the Ganga Dynasty reigned over the entire region of Kalinga.
January 1043: Chalukya emperor Someshvara I invaded Malwa, and sacked its capital Dhara.
February 1043: The Chalukya leave Malwa after sacking its capital, Dhara.
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.
January 1051: The Cholas conquered Rattapadi (territories of the Rashtrakutas, Chalukya country, Talakkad, and Kolar, where the Kolaramma temple still has his portrait statue) in Kannada country.
January 1140: Yashovarman lost control of the Paramara capital Dhara to Jayasimha Siddharaja.
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 1165: The Kalachuris of Kalyani overthrew the Kalyani Chalukyas in the early part of the 12th century.
January 1182: After 1181 CE, the Chalukyas absorbed the Kalachuris of Kalyani.
January 1188: In 1187, Bhillama, a ruler of the Seuna dynasty, defeated Ballala and took control of the former Chalukya capital Kalyani in Basavakalyan. Bhillama declared himself a sovereign ruler of the territory.
January 1188: Bhillama V was the first sovereign ruler of the Seuna (Yadava) dynasty of Deccan region in India. He carved out a principality in present-day Maharashtra by capturing forts in and around the Konkan region.
January 1188: Vishnuvardhana's ambition of creating an independent empire was fulfilled by his grandson Veera Ballala II, who freed the Hoysalas from subordination in 1187-1193.
Disestablishment
January 1190: The overall effort by Someshvara IV to rebuild the Chalukya empire failed and the dynasty was ended by the Seuna rulers who drove Someshvara IV into exile in Banavasi 1189.
