Hariphunchai

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Was a Mon Kingdom in northern Thailand.

Establishment

January 801: Hariphunchai was a state founded at an uncertain date between the 7th and 8th centuries by the Mon in the territory of today's Northern Thailand. It took its name from its capital, Hariphunchai, the ancient name of today's Lamphun.

Chronology

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1. Conquests of Anawrahta

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.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1088: The Khmer influences on Lavo began to wane as a result of the growing influence of the emerging Burmese kingdom of Pagan. In 1087 Kyansittha of Pagan invaded Lavo, but King Narai of Lavo was able to repel the Burmese invasion and Lavo, emerging relatively stronger from the encounter, was thus spared from either Khmer or Burmese hegemony. King Narai moved the capital to Ayodhaya and Lavo was then able to exert pressure on Suvarnabhumi to the west and slowly to take its cities.

January 1095: The Phayao Kingdom was founded around 1200 from a dismemberment of the Ngoenyang Kingdom.

January 1151: Under Suryavarman II, in power from 1113 to 1150: in the east the Khmer Empire annexed several provinces of Champā, in the south the Khmer invested the Malay Peninsula.

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.

January 1271: By 1270, Sukhothai covered the entire upper valley of the Chao Phraya River.