Mindon Min

Mindon Min (Burmese မင္းတုန္းမင္း; born Maung Lwin the July 8th 1808 with Amarapura, died on October 1st 1878 with Ava), was the tenth and penultimate king of Burma, of the February 18th 1853 with its death. It one of most popular and was respected of its people. Under the reign of his/her half-brother Pagan Min (1848-1853), the Second War Anglo-Burmese had been concluded in 1852 by the annexation from the Low-Burma by the the United Kingdom. Mindon and its young brother the royal prince Ka Naung reversed Pagan Min and concluded peace. Mindon passed most of its reign to defend the High-Burma against the carried out British ones and to try to modernize its kingdom.

Achievements

King Mindon founded the last royal capital of Burma, Mandalay, in 1854. His/her brother Ka Naung was a large administrator and modernisator. During the reign of Mindon, scientists were sent in France, in Italy, with the the United States and in Great Britain, to study progress of the Industrial revolution. Mindon introduces the first press with currency in Burma and held in 1871 the Fifth Buddhist Council in Mandalay. It had already created the largest book of the world while making register between 1860 and 1869 the Tipitaka (Buddhist gun in Pâli) on 729 marble steles, each one sheltered by small a Stupa with the Pagode Kuthodaw, with the foot of the hill of Mandalay. In 1871, it gave also new a htee (" ombrelle" or crowns of gold encrusted with invaluable stones) to the Pagode Shwedagon with Rangoun (then with the hands of the British, and where it was not authorized to go). With the opening of the Suez Canal, it establishes a flotilla of steamers to facilitate the trade with the British.

His/her brother the royal prince Ka Naung still has the reputation among the Burmeses of an avid modernisator, able to visit the factories by the small hours of winter, wrapped of a cover, for simply speaking with the mechanics about operation about the machines. He was in load of the Royal army, like any Burmese royal prince, and imported rifles, guns and shells.

Palace revolution

June 18th 1866, the princes Myin Kun and Myin Khondaing (wire of Mindon, jealous not to be not named like heirs and supported by anxious English to the modernization of the royal army), prince Ka Naung was assassinated. The two princes fled in Low-Burma, where they accepted the asylum of the British.

King Mindon itself survived in an extraordinary way, that the Burmeses interpreted like a sign of sound hpon (an accumulation of good deeds in the former lives, who affect the life present): In its escape, it met just that which was charged to kill it, which recognized it, but, seized to meet its sovereign face-with face, dropped its sword and knelt by the force of the practice. The king could escape on the back from his assassin and reach quarterings of honest soldiers.

Crisis of succession

The revolt made Mindon very reticent to name a successor with Ka Naung by fear of a civil war. One of its queens, Hsinbyumashin, dominated its last days. She ordered to kill all the possible heirs, so that his/her daughter Supayalat and her son-in-law Thibaw could become queen and king. The family members royal near, whatever their age or their sex, were carried out after being attracted under pretext which the dying king wanted to say to them good-bye.

Thibaw Min, wire of a secondary queen of Mindon, thus succeeded to him in 1878. It was overcome in November 1885 by the British, which led to the total annexation of Burma.

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