Late Period of the Pagan Kingdom

Timeline

1. 1211Pagan royal city · MyanmarAfter Narathihapati's death, Htilominlo succeeded him, continuing Pagan royal rule over the middle Irrawaddy and patronizing Buddhist temple construction, marking the formal beginning of the dynasty's late period.
2. 1215Temple complexes of the Bagan plain · MyanmarOver this decade Pagan remained famed as the City of a Thousand Temples; the royal house and nobility donated land and labor to monasteries, Theravada Buddhism permeated all social strata, forming a distinctive religious-political community, but maintaining the vast monastic system had become a heavy fiscal burden.
3. 1215Shan Plateau and Mon region frontier · MyanmarPagan's control over the eastern Shan polities and the southern Mon regions grew increasingly strained, local strongmen rose in power, effective central royal administration of outlying areas weakened, and the structural crisis of the dynasty's late period gradually emerged.