Far East Kingdoms

Krung Thonburi Kingdom (Thailand)
AD 1769 - 1782

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Phaya Taksin was a Thai general from the Ayuddhya kingdom who fled to Krung Thonburi and promoted himself king, taking advantage of the power vacuum which existed after the Burmese had been driven out of the region.

(Information by Peter Kessler & John De Cleene, with additional information from the John De Cleene Archive, from The Restoration of Thailand under Rama I, 1782-1809, Klaus Wenk (1968), from A History of Thailand, Chris Baker & Pasuk Phongpaichit (2005), from Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopaedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, Keat Gin Ooi (ABC-Clio, 2004), from Early Mainland Southeast Asia, C Higham (River Books Co, 2014), from Encyclopaedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations, Charles F W Higham (Facts on File, 2004), from Historical Atlas of the World, R R Palmer (Ed, Chicago, 1963), and from External Links: Ancient Chinese farmers sowed literal seeds of change in south-east Asia (Science News), and The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, George Coedès (Walter F Vella (Ed), Susan Brown Cowing (Trans), University of Hawaii Press, 1968, and available online via the Internet Archive).)

1769 - 1782

Former general who filled a power vacuum.

1774 & 1776

Krung Thonburi conquers Lan Na.

1782

Phaya Taksin is executed by his ministry, allegedly because he is psychotic. Rule of the country passes to the Chakris.