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Name |
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Issues/Designs |
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Colombo Museum founding |
1877 |
— |
- ... 100th |
| |
Colombo Public Library opening |
1980 |
— |
- ... |
| |
Colombo Tea Auctions |
1884 |
— |
- 100th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Colombo Y.M.C.A. founding |
1882 |
— |
- 100th Anniversary of ... |
| |
common bottlenose dolphin |
— |
— |
syns. Black Sea bottle-nosed dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Tursiops truncatus ponticus |
| |
Common thresher |
— |
— |
syns. Alopias vulpinus |
| |
Commonwealth Day |
— |
— |
- ... 1983 |
| |
Commonwealth Games Federation General Assembly |
2007 |
— |
- ... |
| |
Commonwealth Heads of government Meeting 2013 |
2013 |
— |
- ... |
| |
41st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference |
1995 |
— |
- ... |
| |
58th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference |
2012 |
— |
- ... |
| |
7th Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting |
2008 |
— |
- ... |
| |
Cardinal Thomas Cooray |
— |
— |
d - Cardinal ..as Cooray 1989 |
| |
Cottonia peduncularis |
— |
— |
d - Cottonia ..uncularis 1994 |
| |
crested goshawk |
— |
— |
d - crested goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus 2003 syns. Accipiter trivirgatus |
| |
Cricket in Sri Lanka |
1832 |
— |
- 160th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Cyrtodactylus frenatus |
— |
— |
d - Cyrtodact.. frenatus 1997 |
| |
Dambegoda Bodhisattva Statue |
— |
— |
d - Dambegoda..va Statue 2013 |
| |
Deepavali |
— |
— |
- ... 2015 |
| |
Deepavali Festival |
— |
— |
- ... 2003 |
| |
Dendrobium maccarthiae |
— |
— |
d - Dendrobiu..ccarthiae 1994 |
| |
Department of Agriculture founding |
1912 |
— |
- Centenary of the ... |
| |
Department of Archaeology founding |
1890 |
— |
- 100th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Department of Immigration and Emigration founding |
1950 |
— |
- 50th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Department of Inland Revenue founding |
1932 |
— |
- 50th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Department of Meteorology founding |
1948 |
— |
- 50th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Rukmani Devi |
— |
— |
d - Rukmani Devi 1990 |
| |
Dhamma Schools Movement founding |
1895 |
— |
- 100th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Thalalle Siri Dhammananda |
— |
— |
d - Thalalle ..ammananda 2005 |
| |
Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala birth |
1864 |
— |
- 150th Anniversary of Birth of ... |
| |
diagram |
— |
— |
d - diagram 2006 |
| |
Arthur V. Dias birth |
1886 |
— |
- 100th Anniversary of the Birth of ... |
| |
Diocesan Council - Diocese of Colombo founding |
1885 |
— |
- 125th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Discovery of America by Columbus |
1492 |
— |
- 500th Anniversary of ... |
| |
diving |
— |
— |
d - diving 1996 |
| |
Drukpa Pada Yatra |
— |
— |
d - Drukpa Pada Yatra 2013 |
| |
dull-blue flycatcher |
— |
— |
syns. Dusky-Blue Flycatcher, Muscicapa sordida |
| |
Earth |
— |
— |
d - Earth 2014 |
| |
Department of Elections founding |
1955 |
— |
- 60th Anniversary of the Department of Elections |
| |
Election of Sirimavo Banadaranaike as Prime Minister |
1995 |
— |
- ... |
| |
elephant |
— |
— |
d (2) - elephant (2013) 2013, Herd of elephant 2007 dt - elephants (1998) 1998, etc (4) |
| |
Elephant Flag |
— |
— |
d - Elephant Flag 1980 |
| |
Elephas maximus ceylonensis |
— |
— |
d - Elephas m..ylonensis 1986, etc (8) |
| |
Emperor Angelfish |
— |
— |
syns. Holacanthus imperator, imperial angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator |
| |
Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus |
— |
— |
d (2) - Black-necked Stork (Ephippior..asiaticus) 2016, Ephippior..asiaticus 2003 |
| |
Etroplus suratensis |
— |
— |
d - Etroplus suratensis 1972 |
| |
Eurema blanda |
— |
— |
d - Three-spot grass yellow Eurema blanda 1999 syns. Three-spot grass yellow |
| |
Europa stamps |
1956 |
— |
- ... 50th |
| |
Exacum trinervium |
— |
— |
syns. Binara flower |
| |
Excise Department (Sri Lanka) |
1913 |
— |
- Centenary of Excise Department |
| |
Sir Razik Fareed |
— |
— |
d - Sir Razik Fareed 1988 |
| |
Favites flexuosa |
— |
— |
d - Favites flexuosa 2000 |
| |
M.J.C. Fernando |
— |
— |
d - M.J.C. Fernando 2010 |
| |
First Postage Stamp of Sri Lanka |
1857 |
— |
- 150th Anniversary of the ... |
| |
First Postage Stamps (Sri Lanka) |
1957 |
— |
- 25th Anniversary of First Postage Stamps |
| |
First Youth Olympic Games |
2010 |
— |
- ... |
| |
flag of Sri Lanka |
— |
— |
d - flag of Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa, houses 2002 |
| |
Gamini Fonseka |
— |
— |
d - Gamini Fonseka 2012 |
| |
Malini Fonseka |
— |
— |
d - Malini Fonseka 2012 |
| |
forest conservation |
— |
— |
- ... |
| |
forestry agency founding |
1887 |
— |
- ... 100th |
| |
Free Distribution of School Text Books |
1979 |
— |
- 10th Anniversary of ... |
| |
French Revolution |
1789 |
— |
start |
| |
friend-in-need society founding |
1837 |
— |
- ... 150th |
| |
Fulvous Whistling Duck |
— |
— |
d - Fulvous W..ling Duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) 2016 syns. Dendrocygna bicolor |
| |
Galle Face Hotel |
— |
— |
d - Galle Face Hotel 2012 |
| |
Galle Lighthouse |
— |
— |
d - Galle Lighthouse 1996 |
| |
Galloperdix bicalcarata |
— |
— |
d - Galloperd..calcarata 1979 |
| |
Gam Udawa and Opening of Janasaviya Centre, Pallekele founding |
1978 |
— |
- 12th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Gam Udawa founding |
1978 |
— |
- 10th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Gam Udawa Movement |
1978 |
— |
(2) - 13th Anniversary of ..., 14th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Mahatma Gandhi death |
1948 |
— |
- 40th Anniversary of the Death of ... |
| |
Garrulax cinereifrons |
— |
— |
d - Garrulax ..ereifrons 1993 |
| |
Gemini |
— |
— |
d - Gemini (2007 Sri Lanka) 2007 syns. tweeling |
| |
General Post Office, Colombo opening |
1895 |
— |
- 100th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Girl Guide |
— |
— |
d - Girl Guide 1977 |
| |
globe |
— |
— |
d - globe on Buddhist flag 1972 |
| |
Dr. Gnanaprakasar |
— |
— |
d - Dr. Gnanaprakasar 1981 |
| |
Goddess Tara |
— |
— |
d - Goddess Tara 1977 |
| |
golden palm civet |
— |
— |
syns. Golden Palm Cat, Paradoxurus zeylonensis |
| |
Gonapinuwala Saralankara College opening |
1903 |
— |
- 100th Anniversary of ... |
| |
Sir Oliver Goonetilleke death |
1978 |
— |
- 4th Anniversary of the Death of ... |
| |
Vivienne Goonewardene |
— |
— |
d - Vivienne ..newardene 1997 |
| |
William Gopallawa |
— |
— |
d - William Gopallawa 1998 |
| |
Gordonia speciosa |
— |
— |
d - Gordonia speciosa 2016 |
| |
Gracula ptilogenys |
— |
— |
d - Gracula ptilogenys 1993 |
| |
Greater Flamingo |
— |
— |
d - Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) 2016 syns. Phoenicopterus roseus |
| |
green bee-eater |
— |
— |
syns. Little Green Bee-eater, Merops orientalis |
| |
Dr. Samuel Fisk Green |
— |
— |
d - Dr. Samue..isk Green 1998 |
| |
green-billed coucal |
— |
— |
syns. Centropus chlororhynchos, Ceylon coucal |
| |
grey heron |
— |
— |
syns. Ardea cinerea, Ardea cinerea firasa |
| |
C.V. Gunaratne |
— |
— |
d - C.V. Gunaratne 2016 |
| |
Mrs. Kusuma Gunawardena birth |
1912 |
— |
- Centenary of Birth of ... |
| |
Philip Gunawardhane death |
1972 |
— |
- 10th Anniversary of the Death of ... |
| |
Sree Narayana Gurudev |
— |
— |
d - Sree Nara..a Gurudev 2009 |
| |
Habenaria acuminata |
— |
— |
d - Habenaria acuminata 2016 |
| |
Habenaria crinifera |
— |
— |
d - Habenaria crinifera 1994 |
| |
Halley's Comet |
— |
— |
- ... syns. Comet Halley, Comet of Halley, Halleys Comet |
| |
Edmond Halley |
1656 |
— |
Edmund birth d - Edmond Halley (1986 Sri Lanka) 1986 syns. Halley, Edmund Halley |
| |
Hameed Al Husseinie College |
— |
— |
d - Hameed Al..e College 2009 |
