Timeline of Yangon

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yangon, Myanmar.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 19th century

19th century

20th century

Map of Rangoon, 1911[10]

21st century

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Smith 1882.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Gazetteer 1908.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Nwe 1998.
  4. 1 2 James 2004.
  5. ↑ Morse 1823.
  6. ↑ Britannica 1910.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Spate 1942.
  8. ↑ Balfour 1885.
  9. 1 2 "Rangoon", Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1893, OCLC 3155661
  10. 1 2 Murray 1911.
  11. 1 2 Cities And Sustainable Development: Lessons And Experiences from Asia And the Pacific. United Nations Publications. 2003. ISBN 9211203678.
  12. ↑ "Rangoon (Burma) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  13. ↑ Jayde Lin Roberts (2013), "Sin Oh Dan Street Lion Dance Competition", in Jeffrey Hou, Transcultural Cities, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0415631424
  14. ↑ "Historical Background". Yangon City Development Committee. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  15. ↑ Seekins 2005.
  16. 1 2 "Burma Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  17. ↑ "Burma stock exchange planned by Tokyo bourse". BBC News. 11 April 2012.
  18. ↑ "Explosion in Myanmar on anniversary of crackdown". New York Times. 25 September 2008.
  19. ↑ "Myanmar hosts first marathon in decades". Al Jazeera. 27 January 2013.
  20. ↑ "Children killed in Myanmar school fire". Al Jazeera. 2 April 2013.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century
  • Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Rangoon", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse 
  • "Rangoon". Wright's Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer. New York. 1881. 
  • George Smith (1882), "Rangoon", Geography of British India, Political & Physical, London: J. Murray, OCLC 5876009 
  • Edward Balfour (1885), "Rangoon", The Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch 
Published in the 20th century
  • "Rangoon". Imperial Guide to India, Including Kashmir, Burma and Ceylon. London: John Murray. 1904. 
  • Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly (1905), "Rangoon", Burma, painted and described, London: Adam and Charles Black, OCLC 5057234 
  • "Rangoon City", Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908 
  • "Rangoon", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive 
  • "Rangoon", A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon (8th ed.), London: John Murray, 1911 
  • C. Morgan Webb (1923). "Development of Rangoon". Town Planning Review. UK. 10. JSTOR 40101637. 
  • B. R. Pearn (1939), A History of Rangoon, Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 
  • O. H. K. Spate; L. W. Trueblood (1942). "Rangoon: A Study in Urban Geography". Geographical Review. American Geographical Society. 32. JSTOR 210359. 
  • Noel F. Singer (1995), Old Rangoon: City of the Shwedagon, Scotland: Paul Stachan - Kiscadale, ISBN 1870838475 
  • Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Yangon". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781884964046. 
  • Than Than Nwe (1998). "Yangon: The Emergence of a New Spatial Order in Myanmar's Capital City". Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. 13. JSTOR 41056978. 
  • Mira Kamdar (1999). "Rangoon: A Remembrance of Things Past". World Policy Journal. 16. JSTOR 40209649. 
Published in the 21st century
  • Helen James (2004). "Rangoon". In Ooi Keat Gin. Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576077705. 
  • Donald M. Seekins (2005). "The State and the City: 1988 and the Transformation of Rangoon". Pacific Affairs. 78. 
  • Frauke Kraas; Hartmut Gaese; Mi Mi Kyi, eds. (2006). Megacity Yangon. Berlin: Lit Verlag. ISBN 3825800423. 
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