Capital of Ayutthaya

Timeline

1. 1350Island of Ayutthaya · SiamKing Uthong (Ramathibodi I) founded Ayutthaya on the island at the confluence of the Chao Phraya, Pa Sak, and Lopburi rivers, establishing it as the capital of the Kingdom of Siam, using the terrain surrounded by water on three sides as a natural defensive barrier.
2. 1601–1610Ayutthaya · SiamIn the early seventeenth century, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Persian, and European merchants lived together in several foreign quarters (villages) within Ayutthaya. The Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company successively established trading posts here, and the city's status as the largest entrepôt port on the mainland of Southeast Asia reached its peak, with rice, timber, and ivory as the main export goods.
3. 1767Ayutthaya · SiamAfter a 14-month siege, the armies of Burma's Konbaung dynasty breached Ayutthaya; the city was systematically looted and burned, many Buddha images and buildings were destroyed, large numbers of Siamese were carried off to Burma, and the Ayutthaya kingdom came to an end.