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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 and 1759 Alaungpaya appointed Mon Governor of Yangon, Smim Noradecha (Ma Pu) joins Mon rebellion (approximate ...
First Anglo-Burmese War. ပထမ အင်္ဂလိပ် မြန်မာ စစ်. Part of Anglo-Burmese Wars. British forces launch an amphibious assault on Rangoon in May 1824. Date. 5 March 1824 – 24 February 1826. (1 year, 11 months, and 19 days) Location. Burma, East Bengal, Assam, Manipur, Cachar and Jaintia.
6 days ago · Rangoon was taken by the British at the outbreak of the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1824 but was restored to Burmese control two years later. The city was taken again in 1852 by the British, who made it the administrative capital of Lower Burma (i.e., the southern part of the country).
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If Myanmar was for decades the black hole in the heart of Asia — a frozen nation in the middle of the most dynamic region on earth — the Secretariat Building is the black hole in the heart of Yangon. The walk there leads through a manic section of the historic downtown, a New World-style grid laid out by the British colonialists in a bid to impose ...
Grand plans for Yangon are being formulated in an urban planning office in City Hall — an edifice that embodies the city’s cosmopolitan traditions and its hopes to reconnect with them today. Completed in 1940, the building opened just before the Japanese invasion that ended Yangon’s reign as the crossroads of Southeast Asia. Situated across the str...
Out on the streets of boomtown Yangon, the best-laid master plans seemed very remote from lived experience. Just one block from City Hall, a makeshift corrugated metal fence surrounded a vacant lot abutting the Traders Hotel. When I first arrived in Yangon, I had assumed it was just another building demolition site. I later learned that, for decade...
Yangon may yet develop smarter than its peer cities in the region, but this transition period will almost certainly go down as an era of lost opportunities. A more benevolent dictatorship could take advantage of the transition by imposing smart growth policies that are easier for authoritarian governments to enact than for democracies. Like India, ...
Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government relocated the administrative functions to the purpose-built capital city of Naypyidaw in north central Myanmar. [6] With over five million people, Yangon is Myanmar's most populous city and its most important commercial centre.
The Colonial Era and the Emergence of Yangon as a Tourist Destination. The foundation for tourism was laid during the British rule in the 19th and 20th centuries, as Yangon was developed into a major port city and an administrative hub.
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The origin of Yangon can be traced back to the time of King Okkalapa who built the city of Okklapa on the present site and the famous Shwedagon Pagoda in the 6th century B.C. From the 11th century, the King became known as Dagon, and the place existed as an obscure fishing village.
