Some historians speculate that the Thet people mentioned in the Burmese Chronicles might be the Chins.

( Burmese Chronicles report the kings of Pateikkaya as Indian though the ethnicity of the subjects is not explicitly cited.

In 1724, U Kala wrote the Maha yazawin gyi ( The Great Chronicles ), covering Burmese history until 1711.

A successor king, King Mindon Min appointed a committee of Burmese scholars from 1867 to 1869 to create the Dutiya maha yazawin dawgyi ( The Second Great Royal Chronicles ).

The Siamese " Chronicles of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya " record that already in 1592, 500 Japanese troops under the King of Siam helped defeat an invading Burmese army.

* Maung Htin Aung: Burmese History Before 1287: A Defense of the Chronicles, Oxford 1970

Burmese chronicles also claim Kengtung and Chiang Mai.

Similarly, Pu Gale in 1939 wrote Kabya Pyatthana ( literally: The Half-Caste Problem ), censored Burmese women for enabling half-caste phenomenon, with the claim, " a Burmese woman ’ s degenerative intercourse with an Indian threatened a spiraling destruction of Burmese society.

Recent studies in 2007 based on feline DNA showed that there are very few genetic differences between the Singapura and Burmese, adding support to the claim that the Singapura is not a natural breed.

After the Battles of Plassey ( 1757 ) and Buxar ( 1764 ) which established British dominion over East India, the Anglo-Mysore wars ( 1766-1799 ), the Anglo-Maratha Wars ( 1775-1818 ), and finally the Anglo-Sikh Wars ( 1845-1849 ) consolidated the British claim over South Asia, resulting in the British Empire in India, though resistance among various groups such as the Afghans and the Burmese would last well into the 1880s.

Hall and Gordon Luce however claim that civilisation of the Irrawaddy Valley could not have been possible before the 4th century, thus, attributing the founding of Sri Ksetra to 638, from which the current Burmese Kawza Era begins.

The AFPFL was a coalition of widely divergent political parties including primarily Communists, Socialists, and the Burma National Army ( BNA ) led by Gen. Aung San, and, as the subsequent civil war in Burma demonstrated, no single group or individual could claim to lead it effectively as a whole ; many to this day however believe that if Aung San had lived the course of modern Burmese history would have been very different, for he was the one leader that could unite the numerous and diverse ethnic minorities as well as the fractious and disparate political groups.

( Indeed, the Burmese chronicles claim that the founding kings of Tagaung were descended from no less than the Sakya clan of the Buddha himself.

The Burmese chronicles claim the Burmans founded the fortified city of Pagan ( Bagan ) in 849 but the oldest radiocarbon dated evidence at Pagan ( old walls ) points to 980 CE while the main walls point to circa 1020 CE, just 24 years earlier than the beginning of the reign of Anawrahta, the founder of Pagan Empire.

The success and longevity of Pagan's dominance over the Irrawaddy valley laid the foundation for the ascent of Burmese language and culture, the spread of Burman ethnicity in Upper Burma.

Prince Anu recognized the suzerainty of the Siamese and assisted the Thai armies in their campaigns against the Burmese.

The Siamese used the Burmese preoccupation with China to recover their lost territories by 1770, and in addition, went on to capture much of Lan Na by 1776, ending over two centuries of Burmese suzerainty over the region.

The nominal suzerainty of Cachar and Jaintia came at a heavy price: the Burmese army had suffered heavy casualties.

* The other track between Katha and Bhamo ( 152 km ) is also under construction, which will be played main roll over the Burmese – Chinese border.

The resuscitation of the Sinhalese Sangha after the destructive effects of the Chola conquest owned a great deal to Bhikkus from upper Burma sent over for this purpose by the Burmese King at the request of Vijayabahu I.

Tensions exist between the two countries due to border disputes and the presence of over 270, 000 Burmese Muslim refugees ( known as Rohingya ) in Bangladesh, however.

Invited by Sal and Bugs to the beach after going on an illegal trek with the founders over the Burmese border.

The southern part of the river has often been the setting of conflicts between the Burmese and Thai over political issues.

* 1965: The Burmese government arrests over 700 monks in Hmawbi, near Rangoon, for refusing to accept government rule.

* 1980: The Burmese military government asserts authority over the sangha, and violence against monks continues through the decade.

Militarily Siam was able to successfully repel Burmese invasions and exerted control over Laos and Cambodia and Vietnam.

On November 6, 1767, having mastered 5, 000 troops and all in fine spirits, Taksin sailed up the Chao Phraya River and seized Thonburi opposite present day Bangkok, executing the Thai governor, Thong-in, whom the Burmese had placed over it.

Besides King Taksin, who had organized his force in the south-eastern provinces, Prince Teppipit, King Boromakot's son, who had been unsuccessful in a diversionary action against the Burmese in 1766, had set himself up as the ruler of Phimai holding sway over the eastern provinces including Nakhon Ratchasima or Khorat, while the Governor of Phitsanulok, whose first name was Ruang ( Thai: เร ื อง ), had proclaimed himself independent, with the territory under his control extending to the province of Nakhon Sawan.

During the 16th century, the Burmese ruled over parts of Siam.

What has come to be known as the U Thant Crisis — the student-led protests over the shabby treatment of U Thant by the Ne Win government — was crushed by the Burmese government.

Thakin Nu, the Socialist leader, was now asked to form a new cabinet, and he presided over Burmese independence on January 4, 1948.

On 23 March 1976, over 100 students were arrested for holding a peaceful ceremony ( Hmaing yabyei ) to mark the centenary of the birth of Thakin Kodaw Hmaing who was the greatest Burmese poet and writer and nationalist leader of the 20th.

When she first meets Flory, he falls in love because he values white women over Burmese women.

However his activities are curtailed by his wife who is ever watching " like a cat over a bloody mousehole " because ever since she returned after leaving him alone one day to find himself surrounded by three naked Burmese girls, she does not trust him alone.

( In Burmese Days Orwell defines the memsahib as " yellow and thin, scandal mongering over cocktails-living twenty years in the country without learning a word of the language.

Judson, who already knew Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, immediately began studying the Burmese grammar but took over three years learning to speak it.

In the first Burmese War, Lawrence and his battery formed part of the Chittagong column which General Morrison led over the jungle-covered hills of Arakan, until fever decimated them, and Lawrence found himself back in Britain, wasted by a disease that never completely left him.

From the time of the first Burmese – Siamese War ( 1548 – 49 ), the region had been afflicted by Burmese and Thai imposition of corvée labor, slave raids and the forced migration of entire communities to replenish their manpower.

For the first time in history, the Burmese language and culture came to predominate the entire Irrawaddy valley, with the Mon language and ethnicity completely eclipsed by 1830.

While most of the English club members, specifically Ellis and Mr. Lackersteen, have a strong distaste for the Burmese natives, viewing their entire race as “ black, stinking swine ”, there is a sense of opposition to the racism by other Club members, like Flory and Mr. Macgregor to a certain extent.

By 1823, ten years after his arrival, membership of the little church had grown to 18, and Judson had finally finished the first draft of his translation of the entire text of the New Testament in Burmese.

Between trips, he worked unceasingly at his lifelong goal of translating the entire Bible into Burmese.

* Burmese Bible, as well as portions published before the entire text was translated

Indeed, the British would make two more wars — much easier wars — against the much weaker Burmese in 1852 and 1885, and swallow up the entire country by 1885.

At first he proposed to convert the entire front into one giant Chindit mission by breaking up the whole of the 14th Army into Long-Range Penetration units, presumably in the expectation that the Japanese would follow them around the Burmese jungle in an effort to wipe them out.

The entire Chin Hills came under the authority of Burmese kingdoms between 1555 and 1559 when King Bayinnaung of Toungoo Dynasty conquered all of Upper Burma and its surrounding regions — stretching from the eastern and northern Shan states to the western Chin Hills and Manipur.

It was also the work of this council to approve the entire Tripitaka inscribed for posterity on seven hundred and twenty-nine marble slabs in the Burmese script before its recitation.

Since the Burmilla inherits its colour ranges from two different breeds, there is also the possibility of the entire Burmese spectrum of colours ( black, Brown, Blue, Chocolate, Lilac and all the O gene range, both in Burmese Expression and in Full Expression.

In early 1756, the Burmese army defeated the Manipuri army, and ransacked the entire country, which the Manipuris call the First Devastation.

Luang Prabang resisted but Thihapate's forces easily captured the city in March 1765, giving the Burmese complete control of Siam's entire northern border.

The Burmese forces finally breached the city's defenses on 7 April 1767, and sacked the entire city.

For the first time in history, the Burmese language and culture came to predominate the entire Irrawaddy valley, with the Mon language and ethnicity completely eclipsed by 1830.

The entire population of the circles were Arakanese ; and the subordinate rulers to the Arakanese king, were Burmese descendants who called themselves " Marma " in the Arakanese language.