city Yangon: All Data

Yangon is a city in Myanmar. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.

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Yangon: Chronology of Mentions

Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.

1824 AD
Mentioned in Event: Burma interior Campaign (First Anglo-Burmese War)
1852 AD
Mentioned in Event: Second Anglo-Burmese War
1853 AD
Mentioned in Event: Second Anglo-Burmese War
1938 AD
Capital of British Burma
1942 AD
Mentioned in Event: Japanese conquest of Burma
1943 AD
Capital of State of Burma (Japanese Puppet)
1943 AD
Mentioned in Event: Japanese conquest of Burma
1945 AD
Mentioned in Event: Allied reoccupation of Burma
1948 AD
Capital of Union of Burma
1975 AD
Capital of Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
1988 AD
Capital of Union of Myanmar
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Region of Yangon Region, part of Republic of the Union of Myanmar