Dali Kingdom
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Was the polity that ruled over Nanzhao after Duan Siping overthrew the ruling dynasty. It was centered on present-day Yunnan in China.
Establishment
January 938: Duan Siping seized power in 937 and established the Dali Kingdom.
Chronology
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Expansion during the rule of Anawrahta in the Pagan Kingdom.
January 1071: In December 1044, a Pagan prince named Anawrahta came to power. Over the next three decades, he turned this small principality into the First Burmese Empire. By the 1070s, Pagan had emerged as the main Theravada Buddhism stronghold.
Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.
January 1254: In 1253, the Dali Kingdom was conquered by the Mongols.
February 939: The rebel Annamese forces, led by Ngô Quyền defeated the invading forces of the Southern Han state of China and put an end to centuries of Chinese imperial domination in Vietnam. The Ngô Dynasty (939-965), founded by Ngô Quyền, was the first Vietnamese dynasty after the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam.
January 1001: Towards the 11th century, the emerging Khmer Empire extended its influence north to conquer Vientiane, as confirmed by Khmer inscriptions found in the central Wat Simuang temple.
January 1095: In 1094, the former prime minister Gao Shengtai forced King Duan Zhengming to relinquish the throne to him and renamed the Dali Kingdom to "Dazhong Kingdom".
January 1097: Gao Shengtai ruled briefly until his death in 1096, after which the throne of Dali was returned to the Duan family.
January 1101: The Kingdom of Kangleipak was established by King Loiyumba in 1110. He consolidated the kingdom by incorporating most of the principalities in the surrounding hills and is credited with having enacted a kind of written constitution for his state.
January 1181: The Kingdom of Chiang Hung was a state founded in 1180 by King Pagna Jueang in today's Chinese prefecture of Xishuangbanna, in southern Yunnan. It was named after the capital, today's Jinghong.
January 1212: The Pagan Kingdom expanded into current Chinese territory farther north.
January 1212: The Pagan Kingdom expanded to the Salween river in the east.
January 1244: The state of Kengtung was founded in 1243 by a prince named Mang Kun.
Disestablishment
January 1254: In 1253, the Dali Kingdom was conquered by the Mongols.
Selected Sources
Harvey, G. E. (1925): History of Burma: From the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., pp. 23-34
