Industrial Age · Southeast Asia · War

1852

Second Anglo-Burmese War

1852

A trumped-up dispute at Rangoon gave the East India Company its excuse to take Lower Burma. The Royal Navy steamed up the Irrawaddy, shelled the forts, and annexed the rice-rich delta. The kingdom of Ava was reduced to its mountain heartland, and the British empire's Burmese frontier crept another notch north.

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Before and after in Southeast Asia

Before: February 24, 1826: Treaty of Yandabo
After: April 29, 1859: French Enter Indochina

Before and after in War

Before: January 11, 1850: Taiping Rebellion Begins
After: October 16, 1853: Crimean War Begins

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Second Anglo-Burmese War