Burma

5/19 — The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma.

1/22 — Das Ava-Reich fällt an die Taungoo-Dynastie im heutigen Birma.

1/18 — King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Mingyi Swa of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.

3/5 — First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.

3/21 — Zweiter Weltkrieg: Britische Truppen befreien Mandalay, Birma.

7/19 — Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.

1/4 — Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

3/2 — In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.

10/9 — Rangoon bombing: Attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.

7/23 — General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.

7/20 — Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.

5/30 — Massaker von Depayin: Mindestens 70 mit der National League for Democracy verbundene Personen werden von einer von der Regierung gesponserten Mobs in Birma getötet. Aung San Suu Kyi floh von der Szene, wurde aber kurz darauf verhaftet.

5/2 — Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.

11/11 — Ein starkes Erdbeben mit der Stärke 6.8 erschüttert den Norden Birmaniens und tötet mindestens 26 Menschen.

3/22 — Nach einem Brand, der ein Lager mit birmanischen Flüchtlingen in der Nähe von Ban Mae, Thailand, zerstört, werden mindestens 37 Menschen getötet und 200 verletzt.

4/24 — Pe Maung Tin, Burma-based scholar and educator (d. 1973)