1. Incumbents

2. Events

3. Notes

4. References

The following lists events that happened during 1981 in Sri Lanka.

Incumbents

• President: J. R. Jayewardene

Events

• An mob of Sinhalese origin went on a rampage on the nights of May 31 to June 1, 1981, torching the Jaffna Public Library in an arson attack. It was one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm in the 20th century.^[1]
• The England cricket team toured Sri Lanka in February 1982. The tour included two One Day International (ODI) matches and one Test match.
• Sri Lanka had obtained Full Member status of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1981, making them the eighth Test playing nation.^[2]

Notes

a. {{note label|a|a|none}} Gunaratna, Rohan. (1998). Pg.353, Sri Lanka's Ethnic Crisis and National Security, Colombo: South Asian Network on Conflict Research. {{ISBN|955-8093-00-9}}

References

• The Ballad of Mona Lisa
• The Ballad of Narayama (disambiguation)
• The Ballad of Nessie
• The Ballad Of Nessie
• The Ballad of Nora Lee
• The Ballad of Oliver Cromwell
• The ballad of peckham rye
• The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly
• The ballad of peter pumpkinhead
• The Ballad of Purple St. James
• The Ballad of Resurrection Joe and Rosa Whore
• The Ballad of Rodger Young
• The Ballad of Roger Young
• The Ballad of Ronnie Drew
• The ballad of sally rose
• The Ballad of Serenity
• The ballad of stuffed trigger
• The Ballad of the Cheerful (but slightly Sarcastic) Jesus
• The Ballad of the Daltons and other stories(Lucky Luke)
• The ballad of the fallen
• The ballad of the flexible bullet
• The ballad of the red shoes
• The ballad of the sad cafe
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
• The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe