* 1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

The Chao Phraya valley in what is now Central Thailand had once been the home of Mon Dvaravati culture, which prevailed from the 7th century to the 10th century.

Later on, many more Dvaravati sites were discovered throughout the Chao Phraya valley.

The eastern parts of the Chao Phraya valley were subjected to a more Khmer and Hindu influence as the inscriptions are found in Khmer and Sanskrit.

The period saw the Khmer domination over a large portion of Chao Phraya basin and the Isan.

on the upper Chao Phraya valley.

In the 12th century, the Tai Po Khuns of the upper Chao Phraya coalesced around the Po Khun of Sukhothai-an important Khmer outpost.

With the weakened Khmer authority, Po Khun Si Nau Namthom of Sukhothai gained the autonomy of upper Chao Phraya valley.

Lavo became the entrepôt of Khmer culture and power of the Chao Phraya river basin.

The city briefly dominated the area under King Ramkhamhaeng, who established the Thai alphabet, but after his death in 1365, Sukothai fell into decline and became subject to another emerging Thai state: the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the lower Chao Phraya area.

After the Ayutthaya kingdom had emerged and expanded its influence from the Chao Phraya valley, Sukhothai was finally subdued.

In the same year he founded the new capital city at Bangkok, across the Chao Phraya river from Thonburi, Taksin's capital.

By the 12th century AD, a number of loosely connected rice-growing and trading states flourished in the upper Chao Phraya Valley.

The central plain is a lowland area drained by the Chao Phraya River and its tributaries, the country's principal river system, which feeds into the delta at the head of the Bay of Bangkok.

The Chao Phraya system drains about one-third of the nation's territory.

Together, the Chao Phraya and Mekong systems sustain Thailand's agricultural economy by supporting wet-rice cultivation and providing waterways for the transport of goods and people.

The Ping River and the Nan River unite to form the Chao Phraya River.

The terrain of the region is dominated by the Chao Phraya and its tributaries and by the cultivated paddy fields.

Metropolitan Bangkok, the focal point of trade, transport, and industrial activity, is situated on the southern edge of the region at the head of the Gulf of Thailand and includes part of the delta of the Chao Phraya BTS

In Bangkok, the Chao Phraya River is a major transportation artery, with ferries, water taxis ( the Chao Phraya Express ) and long-tailed boats.

Ferry service between hundreds of islands and the mainland is available, as well as across navigable rivers, such as Chao Phraya and Mae Khong ( Mekong ).

Examples are the Ayutthaya Kingdom, based on the Chao Phraya River delta and the Khmer Empire on the Tonle Sap.

* The rebellion of Huang Chao in China begins, weakening the strength of the already declining Tang Dynasty.

When a Chao begins to grow up, it will eventually go into a cocoon stage in which it will transform.

* The Chinese rebel Huang Chao besieges the southern Chinese seaport at Guangzhou and slaughters much of its inhabitants of native Chinese and foreigners from around the world.

Before the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act, President George W. Bush met with Senator Paul Sarbanes, U. S. Secretary of Labor | Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room ( White House ) | Blue Room at the White House on July 30, 2002

Ban Chao was created the Marquess of Dingyuan ( 定遠侯, i. e., " the Marquess who stabilized faraway places ") for his services to the Han Empire and returned to the capital Loyang at the age of 70 years old and died there in the year 102.

Though his live performances in the U. S. are infrequent, Chao played a handful of dates there in 2006, including a headlining show at Lollapalooza 2006 in Chicago, IL.

Manu Chao also appeared at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland to a sellout crowd on June 23, 2007.

Chao also studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, and Columbia University.

In July and August 2003, Chao and her colleagues, Treasury Secretary John W. Snow and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, took a bus across the country on their Jobs and Growth Tour, aimed at promoting the benefits of the Bush Administration's tax cuts.

A report by the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform alleged that Chao and other White House officials campaigned for Republican candidates at taxpayer expense.

* Elaine Chao history at Department of Labor

According to the most widely accepted version of its origin, the Siamese state based at Ayutthaya in the valley of the Chao Phraya River rose from the earlier, nearby kingdoms of Lavo ( at that time still under the Khmer control ) and Suphannaphoom ( Suvarnabhumi ).

The expanse of the Chao Phraya and Tha Chin Rivers and their distributaries, starting at the point at which the distributaries diverge, together with the land amid the triangle formed by the outermost and innermost distributary, form the Chao Phraya Delta.

In 2005, even Disney acknowledged feng shui as an important part of Chinese culture by shifting the main gate to Hong Kong Disneyland by twelve degrees in their building plans, among many other actions suggested by the master planner of architecture and design at Walt Disney Imagineering, Wing Chao, in an effort to incorporate local culture into the theme park.

The northern tip of the gulf is the Bay of Bangkok at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River.

Only at the greater depths does water with a higher salinity ( 3. 4 %) flow into the gulf from the South China sea and fills the central depression below a depth of 50 m. The main rivers which empty into the gulf are the Chao Phraya ( including its distributary Tha Chin River ), Mae Klong and Bang Pakong Rivers at the Bay of Bangkok, and to a lesser degree the Tapi River into Bandon Bay in the southwest of the gulf.

With the aid of an Annamite army, Prince Talana was prepared to take his stand against the Thai forces at Phnom Penh, but before any fighting started, serious disturbances which had broken out in Siam made Somdej Chao Phraya Mahakasatsuek decide on a hasty return to Thonburi, after handing the command of the army to Chao Phraya Surasih.

* Ma Ping, general of Han Dynasty, father of Ma Teng, grandfather of Ma Chao ( b. 126 )

The principal tributaries of the Chao Phraya River are the Pa Sak River, the Sakae Krang River, the Nan River ( along with its principal confluent the Yom River ), the Ping River ( with its principal confluent the Wang River ), and the Tha Chin River.

The Ping and Nan rivers merge near the city of Nakhon Sawan to form the Chao Phraya River.

River Ping, one of the major tributaries of the Chao Phraya River, originates in the Daen Lao mountains.

It stops the river Ping, one of the two sources of the Chao Phraya river.

Scene of Banana FestivalThe main river of the province is the Ping, one of the sources of the Chao Phraya river.

Choe also won merits for his service under the Tang general Gao Ping in his struggle against the Huang Chao rebellion, a failed uprising which nonetheless ushered in the final years of the crippled Chinese dynasty.