History timeline
Myanmar
15 periods and events, 200 BCE – today.
Periods and events
| When | Period or event | Kind | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200 BCE – 1050 | Pyu city-states骠国城邦 Early Buddhist urban culture of the Irrawaddy valley, such as Sri Ksetra. | Other | Source |
| 849 – 1297 | Pagan Kingdom蒲甘王朝 First unified Burmese kingdom; Anawrahta adopts Theravada Buddhism and thousands of temples rise at Bagan. | Dynasty or era | Source |
| 1277 – 1287 | First Mongol invasion第一次元缅战争 Yuan armies break Pagan, which fragments into rival states. | War | Source |
| 1287 – 1555 | Ava and Hanthawaddy kingdoms阿瓦与勃固王国 Burman Ava in the north and Mon Hanthawaddy in the south fight the Forty Years' War. | Dynasty or era | Source |
| 1510 – 1752 | Toungoo dynasty东吁王朝 Bayinnaung builds the largest empire in Southeast Asian history. | Dynasty or era | Source |
| 1752 – 1885 | Konbaung dynasty贡榜王朝 Alaungpaya reunifies Burma; it sacks Ayutthaya in 1767 and repels Qing invasions. | Dynasty or era | Source |
| 1824 – 1826 | First Anglo-Burmese War第一次英缅战争 Burma cedes Assam, Manipur, Arakan and Tenasserim to British India. | War | Source |
| 1885 – 1948 | British Burma英属缅甸 After the Third Anglo-Burmese War King Thibaw is exiled; Burma is a province of British India until 1937. | Colonial | Source |
| 1942 – 1945 | Japanese occupation日本占领 | Colonial | Source |
| 1947 | Assassination of Aung San昂山遇刺 The independence leader is killed with most of his cabinet months before independence. | Politics | Source |
| 1948 – today | Internal conflict缅甸内战 Communist and ethnic armed insurgencies; one of the world's longest-running civil wars. | War | Source |
| 1948 | Independence独立 The Union of Burma becomes independent as a republic outside the Commonwealth. | Politics | Source |
| 1962 – 1988 | Ne Win and the Burmese Way to Socialism奈温与“缅甸式社会主义” A military coup leads to one-party socialist rule and isolation. | Politics | Source |
| 1988 | 8888 Uprising8888民主运动 Nationwide pro-democracy protests are crushed by the military; Aung San Suu Kyi emerges as leader. | Movement | Source |
| 1988 – 2011 | Military junta (SLORC/SPDC)军政府（恢复法律与秩序委员会／和平与发展委员会） Renames the country Myanmar in 1989 and ignores the NLD's 1990 election victory. | Politics | Source |