Decline of the Pagan Dynasty

Name: Decline of the Pagan Dynasty
Start: 1331
End: 1340

Type Event Region Myanmar Time 1331–1340

Around 1331, the Pagan dynasty, already defunct after the 1287 Mongol invasion, saw the middle Irrawaddy fragment into local regimes, the city of a t…

Timeline

1287–1297Bagan · Mandalay RegionIn 1287 Kublai Khan dispatched troops against Myanmar; after Pagan king Narathihapate surrendered, he moved the capital to Pegu, and Pagan lost its function as a political center. Though the Mongol army did not occupy it long-term, Pagan's central authority had suffered a fatal blow.
1331–1340Middle Irrawaddy · MyanmarBy the 1330s the Irrawaddy basin had fragmented into multiple rival regimes including Pegu, Sagaing, and Minbu. The former capital of Bagan became a religious sanctuary rather than a political center; warlords and monastic factions each went their own way, and Myanmar entered a period of division lasting several decades.

Sources

History of Burma — G. E. Harvey (1925)
The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma (1829)