Decline of the Pagan Dynasty (1240s)

Name: Decline of the Pagan Dynasty (1240s)
Start: 1241
End: 1250

Type Event Region Southeast Asia Time 1241–1250

In the 1240s, Myanmar's Pagan dynasty fell into a power vacuum and fiscal exhaustion after King Kyaswa's death, with local governors rising and centr…

Timeline

1241–1245Bagan · Mandalay RegionAfter King Kyaswa's death, Pagan's royal line faced a succession crisis; the court was unable to effectively restrain local military nobles, and royal authority rapidly weakened in the middle Irrawaddy.
1246–1250Myinsaing · Mandalay RegionMilitary governors in places such as Myinsaing gradually took control of taxes and troops; the central court could no longer mobilize manpower for large-scale temple construction, and Pagan's function as the center of a unified polity began to disintegrate.

Sources

The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma — Pe Maung Tin; G.H. Luce (trans.) (1923)
Burma: From Kingdom to Republic — Thant Myint-U (2019)