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The Burmese–Siamese War of 1765–1767, also known as the war of the second fall of Ayutthaya (Thai: สงครามคราวเสียกรุงศรีอยุธยาครั้งที่สอง) was the second military conflict between Burma under the Konbaung dynasty and Ayutthaya Kingdom under the Siamese Ban Phlu ...
The fall of Ayutthaya in the 7th of April 1767, after a harrowing 14-month siege, led to the fall of the 417-year-old Ayutthaya Kingdom. [31] With the Burmese armies holding the smoldering ruins of Ayutthaya and vast swathes of Siam, the rest of Siam descended into anarchy and civil war as local leaders, with the absence of central authority ...
The war began in 1568 when Ayutthaya unsuccessfully attacked Phitsanulok, a Burmese vassal state. The event was followed by a Burmese intervention which resulted in the 2 August 1569 defeat of Ayutthaya, which became a Burmese vassal state. Burma then moved towards Lan Xang, occupying the country for a short period of time until retreating in 1570.
The Late Ayutthaya Period saw the departure of the French and English but growing prominence of the Chinese. The period was described as a "golden age" of Siamese culture and saw the rise in Chinese trade and the introduction of capitalism into Siam, [24] a development that would continue to expand in the centuries following the fall of Ayutthaya.
"The Grand Palace in the Description of Ayutthaya: Translation and Commentary" (PDF). Journal of the Siam Society. 101: 69– 112. ISSN 0857-7099. Wikidata Q131262022. Baker, Chris (2014). "Final Part of the Description of Ayutthaya with Remarks on Defence, Policing, Infrastructure, and Sacred Sites" (PDF). Journal of the Siam Society. 102: 179 ...
After the Fall of Ayutthaya in 1767, Thonburi and Rattanakosin kingdoms inherited the whole Chatusadom apparatus of the Late Ayutthaya period. King Rama I restored the Southern Siamese cities to the authority of Samuha Kalahom in 1782. [3] [5] The seals of top three ministers were stamped on the Three Seals Law.
In January 1767, about three months before the Fall of Ayutthaya, Phraya Tak, a Siamese general of Teochew ancestry with personal name Zheng Zhao (鄭昭) [5] or Zheng Xin (鄭信), led his forces to successfully break through the Burmese encirclement and left Ayutthaya for Chanthaburi. The Cambodian Prince Ang Non also joined this entourage of ...
It was one of the 27 laws compiled in the 1805 Three Seals Code on the orders of King Rama I, following the fall of Ayutthaya. [ 2 ] Today, a handful of palace laws dating from the reign of King Vajiravudh (Rama VI, r. 1910–1925) remain in force, the most significant of which is the 1924 Palace Law of Succession , which is deferred to by the ...