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1245 Jean de Plancarpin travels to Karakorwn.
1253 Guillaume de Rubrouck travels to Karakorum.
1274 Death of Thomas Aquinas.
1276 Arrival of Marco Polo in China
1279 – 1368 Yuan Dynasty.
1338 Beginning of the Hundred Years Was between England and France.
1348 Black Death reaches Europe.
1368 – 1644 Ming Dynasty.
1492 Christopher Columbus discovers the American.
1602 Foundation of Dutch East India Company.
1644 – 1911 Qing Dynasty.
1762 – 1796 Reign of Catherine II of [...] In March 1782 a revolt broke out against King Taksin, who was thought to have become insane. He was replaced by a prominent military commander who, as King Rama I, founded the Chakri Dynasty and, for strategic reasons, moved the seat of government across the Chao Phraya River to a small trading port known as [...] The fall of Ayutthaya Shortly after King Ekatat assumed the throne in 1758, Ayutthaya was attacked once more by the Burmese under King Alaungpaya. A second invasion led by Alaungpaya’s son, Hsinbyushin, succeeded in capturing Ayutthaya, after a siege lasting more than a year. The city was burned and looted by the victors and more than [...] The Rise of Ayutthaya. Avulthaya was founded on the Chao Phrava River by King Ramathibodi in 1350. Over the next four centuries, it grew from a small, fortified city into one of the great capitals of the region, its power reaching far beyond the fertile river valley. The capital fell to the Burmese in 1569, but [...] Power Struggle in Sukhothai. In lhe first half of the 13th century, probably in the 1240’s, a Thai chieflain later known as King lntradit joined forces with several Other groups, overthrew the Khmer overlord at Sukhothai, and established an independent Thai kingdom of the same name. Sukhothai remained small under its first two rulers; it expanded [...] |
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