Timeline of Yangon explained

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

Prior to 19th century

• 6th century CE - Dagon village founded by the Mon people.
• 7th century - Town conquered by King Punnarika of Pegu, renamed "Aramana."
• 1362 - Binnya U raised the height of Shwedagon Pagoda^[1]
• 1364 - Mon Princess Maha Dewi, a sister of King Binnya U became Governor of Dagon.^[2]
• 1413 - Town occupied by Burmans.
• 1415 - Mon Prince Binnya Set became Governor of Dagon.^[3]
• 1460 - Palace built by Mon Queen Shin Sawbu.
• 1484 - Great Bell of Dhammazedi presented.
• 1583 - Italian merchant, Gasparo Balbi visits.^[4]
• 1755 - Dagon captured by Burman King Alaungpaya and renamed "Yangon."
• 1756 - Between 1756 and 1759 Alaungpaya appointed Mon Governor of Yangon, Smim Noradecha (Ma Pu) joins Mon rebellion (approximate date).
• 1768 - Earthquake.
• 1790 - The Mon people (also known as Peguans) in power.
• 1790s - British East India Company factory in business (approximate date).

19th century

• 1823
  • Population: 30,000 (estimate).
  • Guanyin Gumiao Temple built
• 1824 - Battle of Rangoon
• 1825 - British in power.
• 1827 - British occupation ends per Treaty of Yandabo.
• 1841 - King Tharrawaddy in residence; city wall built.
• 1850 - Fire.
• 1852
  • April: Second Anglo-Burmese War begins; British in power.
  • City becomes capital of British Burma.
• 1853 - Port of Rangoon established.
• 1854 - Rangoon Chronicle begins publication.
• 1855
  • A Mon noble named Maung Khaing becomes the first Magistrate of Yangon (Rangoon)
  • Maung Htaw Lay (former Mon governor of Dala) restores Shwedagon Pagoda ^[5]
• 1857 - BI Steam Navigation Company starts Calcutta-Rangoon-Moulmein service.
• 1860 - St. Paul's English High School established.
• 1861 - Kheng Hock Keong built
• 1868 - Irrawaddy Flotilla Company starts Rangoon-Mandalay service.^[6]
• 1872
  • Population: 98,745.
  • Baptist College opens.
• 1874 - 31 July: Municipality constituted.
• 1875 - Fushan Temple built.
• 1876 - City area expanded.
• 1877
  • Railway begins operating.
  • Central Railway Station built.
  • Long Shan Tang Temple built.
• 1878 - Rangoon College established.
• 1879 - City "separated from Hathawaddy District."
• 1881 - Population: 134,176.
• 1882 - Methodist Episcopal Girls School founded.
• 1883
  • Inya Lake created.
  • Twante Canal opens.
• 1887 - Dufferin Hospital opens
• 1888 - Income tax established.
• 1891 - Population: 181,210.
• 1893 - June: Riot.
• 1899
  • General Hospital founded.
  • Saint Mary's Cathedral built.

20th century

• 1901
  • Strand Hotel opens.
  • Population: 234,881.
• 1902 - Secretariat Building constructed.
• 1906 - Victoria Memorial Park and Zoological Gardens opens.
• 1907 - Chaukhtatgyi Buddha Temple built.
• 1911 - High Court building constructed.
• 1912 - Gymkhana Ground (cricket) in use.
• 1913 - Burma Art Club founded (approximate date).
• 1914 - Myanma Alin (New Light of Myanmar) newspaper begins.^[7]
• 1915 - Lim Chin Tsong Palace built (approximate date).
• 1920
  • Myoma National High School founded.
  • Governor's Residence built.
• 1921 - City boundaries expanded.
• 1922 - City incorporated.
• 1926 - Scott's Market built.
• 1927
  • BOC College of Engineering and Mining established.
  • Medical school building constructed.
• 1930
  • Richard Rushall elected as mayor of Rangoon
  • Race riots in Rangoon
  • Earthquake kills over 550 people.
• 1931 - Population: 398,967.
• 1936 - Yangon City Hall built.
• 1937 - City becomes capital of Burma.
• 1938 - Race riots in Rangoon
• 1942 - Japanese occupation begins.
• 1943
  • Biruma Shinbun newspaper begins publication.^[8]
  • 8 November: Bombing destroys Botataung Pagoda.
  • U Wisara Monument erected.
• 1945 - Japanese occupation ends.
• 1947 - Airport built.
• 1948 - 4 January: City becomes capital of the independent Union of Burma.
• 1952
  • National Museum of the Union of Burma opens.
  • Kaba Aye Pagoda built.
• 1953 - Population: 711,520.^[9]
• 1957 - Kyemon newspaper begins publication.
• 1958 - The Botataung newspaper begins publication.
• 1960
  • Population: 1,284,642.
  • Yangon Children's Hospital opens
• 1961
  • May - South Okkalapa Maternal and Child Hospital opens
  • December- 2nd South East Asian Games held
• 1962
  • 7 July - Government guns down student protesters.
  • Bogyoke Aung San Museum established.
• 1963 - Medical College 2 opens
• 1964 - Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL) opens
• 1967 - 26 June: "Anti-Chinese riot."
• 1968 - Planetarium established.
• 1969 - 5th South East Asian Games
• 1972 - Karaweik built
• 1973 - Population: 2,055,365 (approximate).^[10]
• 1974 - Government guns down student protesters following U Thant's death
• 1980 - Maha Wizaya Pagoda built.
• 1983
  • 9 October: Bombing at Martyrs' Mausoleum.
  • Population: 2,513,023.^[11]
• 1984 - New Yangon General Hospital opens
• 1985 - Thuwunna Stadium opens.
• 1988
  • 8 August: 8888 Uprising.
  • State Law and Order Restoration Council headquartered in city.
  • Ko Lay becomes mayor.
• 1989 - City renamed "Yangon."^[12]
• 1990
  • Yangon City Development Committee established.^[13]
  • Bayinnaung Market established
• 1991 - National Theatre of Yangon opens.
• 1992 - Asia World Group conglomerate headquartered in city.
• 1993 - Dagon University opens
• 1994 - Thingangyun Sanpya Hospital opens
• 1996 - Myanmar Securities Exchange established.^[14]
• 1998 - Myanmar Motion Picture Museum established.
• 1999 - Sakura Tower opens.

21st century

• 2001 - Yangon City FM radio begins broadcasting.
• 2002 - Kyauktawgyi Buddha Temple (Yangon) opens.
  • October 1: Birth of Steven Wai Yan
• 2005
  • May: May 2005 Yangon bombings
  • November: National capital relocated from Yangon to Naypyidaw.
• 2007
  • September: Anti-government protests led by monks; crackdown.
  • Yangon International Airport terminal built.
• 2008
  • 2 May: Cyclone Nargis.
  • September: Explosion near City Hall.^[15]
• 2009 - Yangon United Football Club formed.
• 2010
  • 16 April: April 2010 Yangon Thingyan bombings
  • Population: 4,348,000.
• 2011
  • Hla Myint becomes mayor.
  • 2011 Yangon explosion
• 2012
  • February: Shwedagon Pagoda Festival resumes.
  • Yangon Heritage Trust begins
• 2013
  • January: Marathon held.^[16]
  • April: School fire.^[17]
  • December: Some events of 27th Southeast Asian Games take place.
• 2014 - Population: 4,575,155 (2014 census); 5,211,431 (urban agglomeration).
• 2015 - Yangon Stock Exchange begins
• 2017 - Yangon Bus Service begins
• 2020
  • 27 March: first COVID-19 case in Yangon^[18]

See also

• Yangon history
• Yangon City Heritage List
• List of name changes in Yangon
• List of mayors of Yangon
• List of universities and colleges in Yangon
• List of hospitals in Yangon
• List of districts and neighborhoods of Yangon

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• • Book: Wright's Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer . 1881 . Rangoon . https://books.google.com/books?id=HzILAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA5-PA71 . New York.

Published in the 20th century

• Book: Imperial Guide to India, Including Kashmir, Burma and Ceylon . 1904 . . London . https://archive.org/stream/imperialguideto00firgoog#page/n294/mode/2up . Rangoon .
  • • • Development of Rangoon . C. Morgan Webb . Town Planning Review . 10 . UK . 1923 . 1 . 37–42 . 10.3828/tpr.10.1.x422054153188814 . 40101637.
  • Rangoon . 22 . Scott . James George . James George Scott . 1910 . . 1.
• Rangoon: A Study in Urban Geography . O. H. K. Spate . L. W. Trueblood . . 32 . 1942 . 1 . 56–73 . American Geographical Society . 10.2307/210359 . 210359. .
  • Book: Routledge . 9781884964046 . International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania . 1996 . Schellinger and Salkin . UK . Yangon.
• Yangon: The Emergence of a New Spatial Order in Myanmar's Capital City . Than Than Nwe . Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia . 13 . 1998 . 1 . 86–113 . 10.1355/SJ13-1D . 41056978. .
• Rangoon: A Remembrance of Things Past . Mira Kamdar . . 16 . 1999 . 3 . 89–109 . 40209649 .

Published in the 21st century

• Book: Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia . Ooi Keat Gin . ABC-CLIO . 2004 . 1576077705 . Rangoon . Helen James. .
• The State and the City: 1988 and the Transformation of Rangoon . Donald M. Seekins . Pacific Affairs . 78 . 2005. .
• Book: Megacity Yangon . Frauke Kraas . Hartmut Gaese . Mi Mi Kyi . 2006 . Lit Verlag . Berlin . 3825800423 .

External links

• Map of Rangoon, 1912

Notes and References

1. Book: Harvey, G. E.. History of Burma: from the earliest times to March 1824. 1925.
2. Book: Pan Hla, Nai. Razadarit Ayedawbon (in Burmese) (8th printing, 2005 ed.). Armanthit Sarpay. 1968. Yangon. 54.
3. Book: Sithu, Maha. Yazawin Thit. 1798. Kyaw Win; Thein Hlaing (2nd ed.). 1. Yangon. 262.
4. 2003. Voyage to Pegu, and Observations There, Circa 1583. SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research.
5. Book: Oung, Kin. A Twentieth Century Burmese Matriarch. 2007.
6. Web site: Irrawaddy River Cruise, Myanmar (Burma). www.irrawaddyflotilla.com. 2019-09-28.
7. Web site: Myanma Alinn Daily.
8. Web site: Rangoon (Burma) Newspapers . USA . WorldCat . . 29 April 2013.
9. Web site: Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . . New York .
10. Book: Demographic Yearbook 1975 . 1976 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 253–279 . Rangoon .
11. Web site: Historical Background . Yangon City Development Committee . 29 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130225003732/http://www.yangoncity.com.mm/maps/index.asp . 25 February 2013 . dmy-all .
12. News: Burma Profile: Timeline . 6 April 2011 . BBC News . 29 April 2013.
13. Book: Cities And Sustainable Development: Lessons And Experiences from Asia And the Pacific . United Nations Publications . 2003 . 9211203678 .
14. Web site: Burma stock exchange planned by Tokyo bourse . 11 April 2012 . BBC News .
15. Web site: Explosion in Myanmar on anniversary of crackdown . 25 September 2008 . New York Times.
16. Web site: Myanmar hosts first marathon in decades . 27 January 2013 . .
17. Web site: Children killed in Myanmar school fire . 2 April 2013 . Al Jazeera .
18. Web site: 2020-03-26. COVID-19 ရောဂါ... - Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar Facebook. . 2020-08-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20200326205102/https://www.facebook.com/MinistryOfHealthAndSportsMyanmar/posts/3278754752153807 . 26 March 2020 .