{"slug": "taungoo", "label": "Taungoo", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taungoo", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1193412", "qid": "Q1193412", "description": "city in the Bago Region of Myanmar", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1191, 1610], "span_label": ["1191 CE", "1610 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Toungoo"], "related": [{"slug": "myanmar", "label": "Myanmar", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "toungoo-dynasty", "label": "Toungoo dynasty", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "bayinnaung", "label": "Bayinnaung", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "burmese-calendar", "label": "Burmese calendar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-ava", "label": "Kingdom of Ava", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "minkhaung-i", "label": "Minkhaung I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-style-and-new-style-dates", "label": "Old Style and New Style dates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lan-na", "label": "Lan Na", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pyay", "label": "Pyay", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1191, "year_label": "1191 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The administration of the Taungoo region (modern Myanmar) is first recorded. King Narapatisithu appoints his son-in-law, Ananda Thuriya, as governor of Kanba Myint.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362170549#Asia", "title": "1191", "revid": 1362170549, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1279, "year_label": "1279 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 17", "text": "April 17 – Thawun Gyi settles at Taungoo (modern-day Myanmar), and becomes the first ruler of the Toungoo dynasty (until 1317).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362487704#Asia", "title": "1279", "revid": 1362487704, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1317, "year_label": "1317 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – Thawun Gyi, Burmese monarch of the principality of Toungoo, is assassinated by his younger brother, Thawun Nge, who takes his place.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368785088#April_–_June", "title": "1317", "revid": 1368785088, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1446, "year_label": "1446 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – (5th waxing of Tabodwe 807 ME) At the city of Taungoo in what is now Myanmar, 14-year-old Minkhaung I becomes the new Viceroy of Toungoo, a semi-independent vassal state of the Kingdom of Ava, ruled by King Narapati I of Ava. Minkhaung's ascension comes hours after the sudden death of his father, the Viceroy Tarabya.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360566332#January–March", "title": "1446", "revid": 1360566332, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1550, "year_label": "1550 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 2", "text": "September 2 (5th waning of Tawthalin 912 ME) – King Bayinnaung of Burma begins a four-month siege of the former Burmese capital, Toungoo, occupied by the king's rebellious brother Minkhaung.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369571608#July–September", "title": "1550", "revid": 1369571608, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1551, "year_label": "1551 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 11", "text": "January 11 (5th waxing of Tabodwe 912 ME) – King Bayinnaung of Burma is successful in capturing his ancestral city of Toungoo from his rebellious half-brother Minkhaung II, and sets about to make Toungoo the capital for the first time since 1539. Minkhaung is forgiven by King Bayinnaung rather than being executed, and assists in the King's campaign to capture the neighboring Kingdom of Prome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352783865#January–March", "title": "1551", "revid": 1352783865, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1595, "year_label": "1595 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 (March 29 O.S.) – Combined Taungoo–Lan Na armies break the rebel Thado Dhamma Yaza's siege of Taungoo, in modern-day Myanmar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339059002#April–June", "title": "1595", "revid": 1339059002, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1610, "year_label": "1610 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 4", "text": "September 4 – The Kingdom of Toungoo (now Myanmar) is retaken by King Anaukpetlun of Burma, as rebel leader Natshinnaung surrenders the city of Taungoo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361322431#July–September", "title": "1610", "revid": 1361322431, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}