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Aim: We aim to estimate the age and reddening parameters of alreadyidentified star clusters within the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in aconsistent way using available photometric data, classify them based on theirmass and strength, and study their spatio- temporal distribution.  Methods: We have used a semi-automated quantitative method, developed in thefirst paper of this series (Paper I), to estimate the cluster parameters usingthe V and I band photometric data from the Optical Gravitational LensingExperiment (OGLE) III survey.  Results: We estimated parameters of 179 star clusters (17 newlyparameterised) and classified them into 4 groups. We present an online catalogof parameters, and cleaned and isochrone-fitted Color Magnitude Diagrams of 179clusters. We compiled age information of 468 clusters by combining previousstudies with our catalog, to study their spatio-temporal distribution. Most ofthe clusters located in the southern part of the SMC are in the age range 600Myr-1.25 Gyr, whereas, the clusters younger than 100 Myr are mostly found inthe northern SMC, with the central SMC showing continuous cluster formation.The peak of the cluster age distribution is identified at 130 Myr, very similarto the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in Paper I.  Conclusion: We suggest that the burst of cluster formation at 130 Myr is dueto the most recent LMC-SMC interaction. 90% of the studied sample is found tohave mass <1700 M_sun, suggesting that the SMC is dominated by low massclusters. There is a tentative evidence for compact clusters in the LMC whencompared to those in the Galaxy and the SMC. A progressive shifting of clusterlocation from the South to North of the SMC is identified in last 600 Myr. Thedetails of spatio-temporal distribution of clusters presented in two videos inthis study can be used as a tool to constrain details of the recent LMC-SMCinteractions.

Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds - II. Age-Dating, Classification and Spatio-Temporal Distribution of the SMC Clusters