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After 50 years of inexistence as separate entity, the British separated Burma from the British Raj of India and created the colony of Burma.
Establishment
January 1938: The British separated Burma Province from British India in 1937 and granted the colony a new constitution.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
Was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 (it started sooner in certain regions) between the Axis Powers (mainly Germany, Japan and Italy) and the Allies (mainly the Soviet Union, the U.S.A., the U.K., China and France). It was the war with more fatalities in history. The war in Asia began when Japan invaded China on July 7, 1937. The war in Europe began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The war ended with the complete defeat of the Axis powers, which were occupied by the Allies.
1.1.World War II (Asia & Pacific)
Was the East Asian, South Asian and Pacific theatre of World War II.
1.1.1.Second Sino-Japanese War
Was a military conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War.
1.1.1.1.Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road
Was a Chinese intervention to aid their British allies in the 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma.
1.1.1.1.1.Battle of Oktwin
Was one of the key battles in the Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in the Burma Campaign of World War II and Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.1.1.2.Battle of Toungoo
Was one of the key battles in the Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in the Burma Campaign of World War II and Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.1.1.3.Battle of Yenangyaung
Was one of the key battles in the Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in the Burma Campaign of World War II and Second Sino-Japanese War.
1.1.2.Japanese conquest of Burma
Was a Japanese military campaign against British Burma that resulted in the Japanese occupation of the region.
1.1.3.Burma Campaign
Was the battle between the Japanese and British forces in Burma, during World War II.
May 1944: British conquest of Ritpong area.
June 1944: The 77th Brigade under Brigadier Michael Calvert, later assisted by Chinese forces of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, captured the town of Mogaung from the occupying forces of Imperial Japan.
August 1944: Siege of Lichfield.
1.1.3.1.First Arakan Campaign
Was the first tentative Allied attack into Burma, following the Japanese conquest of Burma earlier in 1942, during the Second World War.
December 1942: The 14th Indian Division advanced to Rathedaung and Donbaik.
April 1943: British units in Burma retreated back almost to the Indian frontier.
1.1.3.2.Allied offensive in Arakan
Was an Allied offensive in Arakan against the Japanese occupation of Burma, during World War II.
January 1944: The 5th Indian Division captured the small port of Maungdaw.
1.1.3.3.Allied reoccupation of Burma
Was an Allied offensive in Burma against the Japanese occupation, during World War II.
December 1944: Bhamo was liberated on 15 December.
January 1945: Two British African divisions converged on Myohaung near the mouth of the Kaladan River, cutting the supply lines of the Japanese troops in the Mayu Peninsula.
January 1945: The Japanese evacuated Akyab Island on 31 December 1944.
January 1945: British forces cleared the Myebon Peninsula.
February 1945: The Indian 20th Division had a hard battle to take Monywa.
February 1945: During January, the Indian 19th Division and British 2nd Division cleared Shwebo.
February 1945: Battle of Ramree Island: it lasted for six weeks after the initial landings on 21 January by the 26th Indian Division before the survivors of the small but tenacious Japanese garrison withdrew from the island.
February 1945: British forces reached Taungtha, halfway to Meiktila, by 24 February.
March 1945: The Sikhs occupied Pagan without resistance.
March 1945: British forces assault Meiktila.
March 1945: British forces reached Lashio, which was captured on 7 March.
March 1945: At Mandalay, British forces enter Fort Dufferin, finding that Japanese forces had withdrawn.
March 1945: Myingyan was captured by British forces after four days' fighting from 18 to 22 March.
April 1945: The British Fourteenth Armyseized Pyinmana. The town and bridge were captured before the Japanese forces could mount a defense.
April 1945: British Indian Division reached the town of Toungoo.
May 1945: The 26th Indian Division started to land as the monsoon began and took over Rangoon, which had seen an orgy of looting and lawlessness since the Japanese had left.
1.1.4.Japanese Surrender (World War II)
Were the evacuation of the Japanese forces from occupied territories after the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan.
August 1945: After the dropping of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan accepts the Allied unconditional surrender terms (14 August 1945). Japanese forces leave occupied territories.
August 1945: The Thai army evacuated Saharat Thai Doem (territories of British Burma it had received from Japan in 1943) in August 1945.
January 1948: Burma achieved independence from British rule.
Disestablishment
January 1948: Burma achieved independence from British rule.
Selected Sources
Military Intelligence Division - U.S. War Department (1945): Merrill's Marauders (February-May 1944), Washington D.C (U.S.A.), p. 101
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 219
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 27
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 30
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 446
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 511
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.31
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.34
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.35
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.354
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.36
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.417
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.551
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