Timeline of Yangon

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yangon, Myanmar.

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Prior to 19th century
History of Myanmar
(Sri Ksetra Kingdom, Tagaung Kingdom)
  • 6th century CE - Dagon village founded by the Mon people.
  • 7th century - Town conquered by King Punnarika of Pegu, renamed "Aramana."[1]
  • 1362 - Binnya U raised the height of Shwedagon Pagoda[2]
  • 1364 - Mon Princess Maha Dewi, a sister of King Binnya U became Governor of Dagon.[3]
  • 1413 - Town occupied by Burmans.[1]
  • 1415 - Mon Prince Binnya Set became Governor of Dagon.[4]
  • 1460 - Palace built by Mon Queen Shin Sawbu.[5]
  • 1484 - Great Bell of Dhammazedi presented.
  • 1583 - Italian merchant, Gasparo Balbi visits.[6]
  • 1755 - Dagon captured by Burman King Alaungpaya and renamed "Yangon."[7]
  • 1756 - Between 1756-59 Alaungpaya appointed Mon Governor of Yangon, Smim Noradecha (Ma Pu) joins Mon rebellion (approximate date).[8]
  • 1768 - Earthquake.[9]
  • 1790 - The Mon people (also known as Peguans) in power.[5]
  • 1790s - British East India Company factory in business (approximate date).[5]

19th century

20th century
Map of Rangoon, 1911[17]

21st century


See also

References
  1. Smith 1882.
  2. Harvey, G. E. (1925). History of Burma: from the earliest times to March 1824.
  3. Pan Hla, Nai (1968). Razadarit Ayedawbon (in Burmese) (8th printing, 2005 ed.). Yangon: Armanthit Sarpay. p. 54.
  4. Sithu, Maha (1798). Yazawin Thit. 1 (Kyaw Win; Thein Hlaing (2nd ed.) ed.). Yangon. p. 262.
  5. Gazetteer 1908.
  6. "Voyage to Pegu, and Observations There, Circa 1583" (PDF). SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research. 2003.
  7. Nwe 1998.
  8. Roy, Prominent Mon Lineages from Late Ayutthaya to Early Bangkok, Journal of the Siam Society, 2010, p. 208. Roy points out that the Burmese-appointed governor of yangon Ma Pu joined a Mon rebellion in the 1750s. Since he was appointed by the Burmese, it could be between 1755-59.
  9. James 2004.
  10. Morse 1823.
  11. Britannica 1910.
  12. Spate 1942.
  13. Oung, Kin (2007). A Twentieth Century Burmese Matriarch.
  14. "Irrawaddy River Cruise, Myanmar (Burma)". www.irrawaddyflotilla.com. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  15. Balfour 1885.
  16. "Rangoon", Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1893, OCLC 3155661
  17. Murray 1911.
  18. "Myanma Alinn Daily".
  19. Cities And Sustainable Development: Lessons And Experiences from Asia And the Pacific. United Nations Publications. 2003. ISBN 9211203678.
  20. "Rangoon (Burma) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  21. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  22. Jayde Lin Roberts (2013), "Sin Oh Dan Street Lion Dance Competition", in Jeffrey Hou (ed.), Transcultural Cities, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0415631424
  23. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279. Rangoon
  24. "Historical Background". Yangon City Development Committee. Archived from the original on 25 February 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  25. Seekins 2005.
  26. "Burma Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  27. "Burma stock exchange planned by Tokyo bourse". BBC News. 11 April 2012.
  28. "Explosion in Myanmar on anniversary of crackdown". New York Times. 25 September 2008.
  29. "Myanmar hosts first marathon in decades". Al Jazeera. 27 January 2013.
  30. "Children killed in Myanmar school fire". Al Jazeera. 2 April 2013.
  31. "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations

Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
  • Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Rangoon", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
  • "Rangoon". Wright's Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer. New York. 1881.
  • George Smith (1882), "Rangoon", Geography of British India, Political & Physical, London: J. Murray, OCLC 5876009
  • Edward Balfour (1885), "Rangoon", The Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
Published in the 20th century
  • "Rangoon". Imperial Guide to India, Including Kashmir, Burma and Ceylon. London: John Murray. 1904.
  • Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly (1905), "Rangoon", Burma, painted and described, London: Adam and Charles Black, OCLC 5057234
  • "Rangoon City", Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908
  • "Rangoon", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • "Rangoon", A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon (8th ed.), London: John Murray, 1911
  • C. Morgan Webb (1923). "Development of Rangoon". Town Planning Review. UK. 10. JSTOR 40101637.
  • B. R. Pearn (1939), A History of Rangoon, Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press
  • O. H. K. Spate; L. W. Trueblood (1942). "Rangoon: A Study in Urban Geography". Geographical Review. American Geographical Society. 32. JSTOR 210359.
  • Noel F. Singer (1995), Old Rangoon: City of the Shwedagon, Scotland: Paul Stachan - Kiscadale, ISBN 1870838475
  • Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Yangon". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781884964046.
  • Than Than Nwe (1998). "Yangon: The Emergence of a New Spatial Order in Myanmar's Capital City". Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. 13. JSTOR 41056978.
  • Mira Kamdar (1999). "Rangoon: A Remembrance of Things Past". World Policy Journal. 16. JSTOR 40209649.
Published in the 21st century
  • Helen James (2004). "Rangoon". In Ooi Keat Gin (ed.). Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576077705.
  • Donald M. Seekins (2005). "The State and the City: 1988 and the Transformation of Rangoon". Pacific Affairs. 78.
  • Frauke Kraas; Hartmut Gaese; Mi Mi Kyi, eds. (2006). Megacity Yangon. Berlin: Lit Verlag. ISBN 3825800423.

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