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1356, "year_label": "1356 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Harihara I, founder of the Vijayanagara Empire", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350441440#Deaths", "title": "1356", "revid": 1350441440, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1365, "year_label": "1365 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In modern-day southern India, Bahmani Sultan Mohammed Shah I invades the Vijayanagara Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339848684#Date_unknown", "title": "1365", "revid": 1339848684, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1366, "year_label": "1366 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in modern-day southern India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361982215#Date_unknown", "title": "1366", "revid": 1361982215, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, 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Empire in what are the modern-day Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361962096#July–September", "title": "1404", "revid": 1361962096, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1432, "year_label": "1432 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 13", "text": "February 13 – The 42 ft tall Statue of Gommateshwara is consecrated by King Veera Pandya in the Indian city of Karkala, capital of the Vijayanagara Empire and now part of the Karnataka state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361998124#January–March", "title": "1432", "revid": 1361998124, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1496, "year_label": "1496 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 27", "text": "November 27 – Led by Prince Prataparudra Deva, son of the Emperor Purushottama Deva, the Gajapati Empire (now India's state of Odisha) invades the Vijayanagara Empire (now the Karnataka state) and its armies advance as far as the Penna River, where they are stopped by a force commanded by the Vijayanagara sultan Tuluva Narasa Nayaka, and are turned back.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371631969#October–December", "title": "1496", "revid": 1371631969, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1500, "year_label": "1500 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Medieval India is divided between many kingdoms, including the Delhi Sultanate, Lodi Sultanate, Ahom Kingdom, Vijayanagara Empire, Gajapati Empire, Deccan Sultanates, Chitradurga Kingdom, Garhwal Kingdom, Mysore Kingdom, and the Keladi Kingdom", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364305524#Events", "title": "1500 in India", "revid": 1364305524, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1500, "year_label": "1500 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Vijayanagara in the Vijayanagara Empire had 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"section": "Births", "date": "June 27", "text": "June 27 – Kempe Gowda I feudatory ruler under the Vijayanagara Empire is born (d. 1569)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311477253#Births", "title": "1510 in India", "revid": 1311477253, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1529, "year_label": "1529 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Krishnadevaraya ends his reign as emperor of Vijayanagara Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322943468#Events", "title": "1529 in India", "revid": 1322943468, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1529, "year_label": "1529 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Achyuta Deva Raya, brother of Krishnadevaraya, begins his reign as emperor of Vijayanagara Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322943468#Events", "title": "1529 in India", "revid": 1322943468, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1529, "year_label": "1529 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Krishnadevaraya, emperor of Vijayanagara Empire (born 1471).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322943468#Deaths", "title": "1529 in India", "revid": 1322943468, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1542, "year_label": "1542 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Sadasiva Raya becomes the emperor of Vijayanagara Empire following the killing of his nephew Venkata I (until 1569)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311477336#Events", "title": "1542 in India", "revid": 1311477336, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1542, "year_label": "1542 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Venkata I becomes the emperor of Vijayanagara Empire following the death of his father Achyuta Deva Raya", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311477336#Events", "title": "1542 in India", "revid": 1311477336, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1542, "year_label": "1542 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Achyuta Deva Raya emperor of Vijayanagara Empire (born 1529)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311477336#Deaths", "title": "1542 in India", "revid": 1311477336, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1553, "year_label": "1553 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 17", "text": "February 17 – In India, Timmaraja Wodeyar II becomes the sixth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore (a vassal state of the Vijayanagara Empire), after the death of his father, the Maharaja Chamaraja Wodeyar III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362480437#January–March", "title": "1553", "revid": 1362480437, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1565, "year_label": "1565 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Tirumala Deva Raya becomes king of Vijayanagara Empire following Aliya Rama Raya's death (reigns until 1572)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1223946315#Events", "title": "1565 in India", "revid": 1223946315, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1565, "year_label": "1565 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Aliya Rama Raya progenitor of the Aravidu dynasty of Vijayanagara Empire", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1223946315#Deaths", "title": "1565 in India", "revid": 1223946315, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1565, "year_label": "1565 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – Battle of Talikota: The Vijayanagara Empire, the last Hindu kingdom in South India, is greatly weakened by the Deccan sultanates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323811827#January–March", "title": "1565", "revid": 1323811827, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1569, "year_label": "1569 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Aliya Rama Raya becomes emperor of 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Vijayanagara Empire for the construction of Fort St. George, the first settlement of British India, so founding modern-day Chennai, capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu (celebrated as Madras Day).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360051116#July–September", "title": "1639", "revid": 1360051116, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}