* 1915 – Aung San, Burmese general and politician ( d. 1947 )

* The Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi stated, " This poem had inspired my father, Aung San, and his contemporaries during the independent struggle, as it also seemed to have inspired freedom fighters in other places at other times.

* 1947 – The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.

Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.

By granting independence to Burma, the British government gave the new ruler, Aung San, control over areas that were not traditionally controlled by the Bamar.

On the 19th of July 1947, Aung San became Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Burma, a transitional government.

But in July 1947, political rivals assassinated Aung San and several cabinet members.

The Irish Government was still concerned by the continued detention of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

In this visit, the first by a Secretary of State since 1955, Clinton met with the President of Burma, Thein Sein, in the capital Naypyidaw, and later met with democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon.

“ By allowing deals with Burma ’ s state-owned oil company, the U. S. looks like it caved to industry pressure and undercut Aung San Suu Kyi and others in Burma who are promoting government accountability ,” HRW ’ s Business and Human Rights Director Arvind Ganesan said.

Recently, ASEAN did take a stronger tone with Burma, particularly regards to the detention of now-released Aung San Suu Kyi.

However, there were tensions over detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, with Thailand calling for her release.

Border disputes are now coming more prominent and Thailand as disturbed by the imprisonment of Burma ’ s dissident Aung San Suu Kyi.

India is generally friendly with Burma, but is concerned by the flow of tribal refugees and the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Among the Burmese to work at the UN when he was Secretary-General was the young Aung San Suu Kyi.

* 1988 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.

* Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy in Burma wins a majority of seats in the first free elections in 30 years in 1990, yet the Burmese military junta refuses to relinquish power, beginning an ongoing peaceful struggle throughout the 1990s to the present by Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters to demand the end of military rule in Burma.

* General Aung San

** Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar poet, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

** In the Burmese general election, Burma's first multiparty election in 30 years, the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi wins in a landslide, but the State Law and Order Restoration Council nullifies the election results.

The movement became known as Htaung thoun ya byei ayeidawbon ( the ' 1300 Revolution ' named after the Burmese calendar year ), and December 20, the day the first martyr Aung Kyaw fell, commemorated by students as ' Bo Aung Kyaw Day '.

At the first meeting, the AFO represented itself to the British as the provisional government of Burma with Thakin Soe as Chairman and Aung San as a member of its ruling committee.

The first years of Burmese independence were marked by successive insurgencies by the Red Flag Communists led by Thakin Soe, the White Flag Communists led by Thakin Than Tun, the Yèbaw Hpyu ( White-band PVO ) led by Bo La Yaung, a member of the Thirty Comrades, army rebels calling themselves the Revolutionary Burma Army ( RBA ) led by Communist officers Bo Zeya, Bo Yan Aung and Bo Yè Htut — all three of them members of the Thirty Comrades, Arakanese Muslims or the Mujahid, and the Karen National Union ( KNU ).

Judson was imprisoned for 17 months during the war between the United Kingdom and Burma, first at Ava and then at Aung Pinle.

On the 1st August 1944 he was bold enough to speak publicly with contempt of the Japanese brand of independence, and it was clear that, if they did not soon liquidate him, he might prove useful to us ... At our first interview, Aung San began to take rather a high hand ... I pointed out that he was in no position to take the line he had.

Takashi Ozaki ( Japan, 1951-May 14, 2011 ) and Nyima Gyaltsen ( aka " Aung Tse "; Burma ) made the first ascent in 1996.

While often called a political party, the AFPFL was in fact more of a popular front organization comprising many very different political parties held together by the common leadership of first Aung San and then U Nu.

However, the first postwar elections in Burma of April 1947 returned an overwhelming victory for Aung San's Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League ( AFPFL ) organization.

U Saw had attended, with Thakin Nu ( the Socialist leader who became the first Prime Minister of independent Burma as a direct consequence of the untimely death of Aung San and the earlier expulsion of the Communists from the AFPFL ), the first Panglong Conference in March 1946, convened by the Yawnghwe Sawbwa Sao Shwe Thaik to discuss the future of the Shan States ; the Kachin, Chin and Karen representatives were also invited.

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at first opposed the new name " Myanmar ", pointing out the hypocritical justification of inclusiveness put forward by the regime.

( In his memoirs, entitled " Saturday's Son ", translated by U Law Yone and first published in 1974, U Nu claimed that his handover of power was not ' voluntary ' but that a group of Army Officers led by Brigadier Aung Gyi and Brigadier Maung Maung threatened him with a ' straight military coup ' should he refuse to hand over power to Ne Win.

Aung San briefly returned to Burma to enlist twenty-nine young men who went to Japan with him in order to receive military training on Hainan Island, China, and they came to be known as the " Thirty Comrades ".

Another member of the Thirty Comrades, Bohmu Aung, former Minister of Defence, joined later.

The roads running parallel west to east were the Strand Road, Merchant Road, Maha Bandula ( née Dalhousie ) Road, Anawrahta ( Fraser ) Road, and Bogyoke Aung San ( Montgomerie ) Road.

From the United Nations headquarters in New York where he was laid in state, U Thant's body was flown back to Rangoon, but no guard of honour or high-ranking officials were on hand at the airport when the coffin arrived except for U Aung Tun, deputy minister of education, who was subsequently dismissed from office.

In Rangoon student protesters, after successfully picketing the Secretariat, the seat of the colonial government, were charged by the British mounted police wielding batons and killing a Rangoon University student called Aung Kyaw.

Some veterans had been formed into a paramilitary force under Aung San, called the Pyithu yèbaw tat or People's Volunteer Organisation ( PVO ), and were openly drilling in uniform.

The new executive council, which now had increased credibility in the country, began negotiations for Burmese independence, which were concluded successfully in London as the Aung San-Attlee Agreement on January 27, 1947.

were most important negotiators and leaders of the historical pinlon ( panglong ) Conference negotiated with Burma national top leader General Aung San and other top leaders in 1947. All these leaders decided to join together to form the Union of Burma.

The military placed Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest again in September 2000 until May 2002, when her travel restrictions outside of Rangoon were also lifted.

As William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim put it " It was not long before Aung San found that what he meant by independence had little relation to what the Japanese were prepared to give-that he had exchanged an old master for an infinitely more tyrannical new one.

' He became more and more disillusioned with the Japanese, and early in 1943 we got news from Seagrim, a most gallant officer who had remained in the Karen Hills at the ultimate cost of his life, that Aung San's feelings were changing.

U Aung Zan Wai, U Pe Khin, Major Aung, Sir Maung Gyi and Dr. Sein Mya Maung and Myoma U Than Kywe were among the negotiators of the historical Panglong Conference negotiated with Bamar representative General Aung San and other ethnic leaders in 1947.

The following month at the Panglong Conference, when an agreement was signed between Aung San as head of the interim Burmese government and the Shan, Kachin and Chin leaders, the Karen were present only as observers ; the Mon and Arakanese were also absent.

Nu and Aung San were both expelled from the university after an article, Hell Hound Turned Loose, appeared in the union magazine, which was obviously about the University Principal.

Aung San and Nu became members of the nationalist Dobama Asiayone ( We Burmans Association ) which had been formed in 1930 and henceforth gained the prefix Thakin (' Master '), proclaiming they were the true masters of their own land.

* Sarkin Aung Wan-Burmese refugee who saves the squad many times such as the time they were lost in the Vietcong tunnel complex

U Aung Zan Wai, U Pe Khin, Major Aung, Sir Maung Gyi and Dr. Sein Mya Maung and Myoma U Than Kywe were among the negotiators of the historical Panglong Conference negotiated with Bamar representative General Aung San and other ethnic leaders in 1947.

On 29 February 1752 ( full moon of Tabaung 1113 ), as the Hanthawaddy forces were about to breach the outer walls of Ava, Aung Zeya proclaimed himself king with the royal style of Alaungpaya ( the Embryo Buddha ), and founded the Konbaung Dynasty.

The cause of the mutiny was the repressive behavior by the Burmese army commanders, who according to the Burmese historian Htin Aung were " drunk with victory ", and were acting like warlords over the local populace.