State · 1752 – 1885

Konbaung dynasty

A state of 1752 – 1885 — 133 years in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 17 things within it — wars and battles 3 · treaties 2 · people 12. Its line of rulers holds 11 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 133 years; 1752 – 1885
Rulers: 11; the King of Burma
Most ground: 800,000 km²; in 1822
Within it: 17; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Konbaung dynasty in 1822, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Konbaung dynasty in 1822, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 800,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Konbaung dynasty in 1752, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Konbaung dynasty in 1822, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of King of Burma.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Alaungpaya	1752 – 1760	8 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Naungdawgyi	1760 – 1763	3 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Hsinbyushin	1763 – 1776	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Singu Min	1776 – 1782	6 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Phaungkaza Maung Maung	1782 – 1782	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Bodawpaya	1782 – 1819	37 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Bagyidaw	1819 – 1837	18 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	grandchild
Tharrawaddy Min	1837 – 1846	9 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Pagan Min	1846 – 1853	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Mindon Min	1853 – 1878	25 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Thibaw Min	1878 – 1885	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child

11 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 1752 – 1885. Median reign 8 years. 2 of 10 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

112,800 km² in 1752, 438,100 km² in 1882; at its largest 800,000 km² in 1822. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedNational flag of the Konbaung Empire · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Samhanin

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1700 – 179910 rows · 1 wars and battles

Alaungpaya · ruler · 1714 – 1760
Bodawpaya · ruler · 1745 – 1819
Bagyidaw · ruler · 1784 – 1846
Sino-Burmese War · war · 1765 – 1769
Maha Bandula · commander · 1782 – 1825
Tharrawaddy Min · ruler · 1787 – 1846
Hsinbyushin · ruler · 1736 – 1776
Naungdawgyi · ruler · 1734 – 1763

and 2 more in the atlas.

1800 – 18997 rows · 2 wars and battles

Thibaw Min · ruler · 1859 – 1916
First Anglo-Burmese War · war · 1824 – 1826
Second Anglo-Burmese War · war · 1852
Mindon Min · ruler · 1808 – 1878
Treaty of Yandabo · treaty · 1826
Pagan Min · ruler · 1811 – 1880
Treaty of Bassein · treaty · 1802

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood133 years
stood longer than 53% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held800,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 81% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century2.3
had more wars on record per century than 98% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median8 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 29% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record11
has more rulers on record than 83% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

coincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 1 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 133

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1739 – 1898, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1822, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1062422 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.