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Burma campaign
Burma campaign: WWII struggle for Burma (Myanmar), 1942–1945, also called the Forgotten War. Japanese conquest, Slim's Fourteenth Army, Imphal-Kohima, Meiktila-Mandalay, and the recapture of Rangoon on 4 May 1945.
Burma Independence Army
The Burma Independence Army, founded in Bangkok in December 1941 by the Thirty Comrades under Aung San, fought alongside Japan against British rule in Burma.
Burma Legislative Council
The Burma Legislative Council was the partly elected legislature of British Burma, reformed under dyarchy in 1923 with 103 seats, 80 of them elected, and replaced by the Legislature of Burma in 1937.
Burma Socialist Programme Party
The Burma Socialist Programme Party, known in Burmese as Myanma Sosialist Lanzin Pati or Ma-Sa-La, ruled Burma as the sole legal party from 1962 to 1988.
Burmese alphabet (မြန်မာအက္ခရာ)
Burmese alphabet (မြန်မာအက္ခရာ), or Myanmar script, an abugida descended from Brahmi via Old Mon, with 33 consonant letters, four tones marked by vowel signs, used for Burmese and about 30 other languages, encoded in Unicode since 1999.
Burmese chronicles
Yazawin (ရာဇဝင်) is the Burmese term for the prose chronicles of kings, literally "genealogies of kings", and the key scholarly sources for precolonial Myanmar history.
Burmese conquest of Arakan
The Burmese conquest of Arakan was King Bodawpaya's 1784 to 1785 annexation of the kingdom of Arakan to Burma, ending with its cession to Britain in 1826.
Burmese conquest of Lan Na
The Burmese conquest of Lan Na was King Bayinnaung's 1558 seizure of the northern Tai kingdom centered on Chiang Mai, beginning over two centuries of Burmese rule.
Burmese conquest of Lan Xang
The Burmese conquest of Lan Xang was the 1558–1593 campaign by which Burma's Toungoo Dynasty, under King Bayinnaung, brought the Lao kingdom under its suzerainty.
Burmese conquest of the Shan states
The Burmese conquest of the Shan states was King Bayinnaung's 1555 annexation of the Shan principalities of inland Burma, which retained their sawbwa rulers under tribute.
Burmese conquest of Vientiane
The Burmese conquest of Vientiane was the seizure of the Lao capital Vientiane, seat of the kingdom of Lan Xang, by Burma's Toungoo king Bayinnaung, achieved through three invasions and consolidated in 1574–1575.
Burmese independence
Burmese independence transferred Burma (now Myanmar) from British rule to sovereignty as the Union of Burma on 4 January 1948, achieved through negotiation with Britain.
Burmese invasion of Assam
The Burmese invasion of Assam (মানৰ আক্ৰমণ) was a series of three Burmese interventions in the Ahom kingdom between 1817 and 1826, ending Ahom rule.
Burmese invasions of Assam
The Burmese invasions of Assam (অসমত বৰ্মী আক্ৰমণ) were three invasions by Burma's Konbaung dynasty against the Ahom kingdom between 1817 and 1826, ending with the Treaty of Yandabo.
Burmese kyat
The Burmese kyat is the currency of Myanmar, issued by the Central Bank of Myanmar and divided into 100 pyas; it replaced the rupee in 1952.
Burmese language
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ), or Myanmar, the official Sino-Tibetan language of Myanmar with about 43 million speakers, written in an 11th-century Mon-derived abugida script, with two registers and debated three-to-eight tone systems.
Burmese mission to Europe (1872–1873)
The Burmese mission to Europe of 1872–1873 was a diplomatic embassy led by the Kinwun Mingyi for King Mindon, seeking British recognition of Burmese sovereignty.
Burmese resistance movement (1885–1895)
The Burmese resistance movement of 1885–1895 was the armed guerrilla opposition of former soldiers, chiefs, monks, and villagers to the British conquest and annexation of Burma after the fall of Mandalay in 1885.
Burmese resistance uprising of 27 March 1945
The Burmese resistance uprising of 27 March 1945 was the revolt in which Aung San's Burma National Army turned against the Japanese occupation forces and joined the Allies.
Burmese tributary missions to China
Diplomatic embassies sent by Burmese courts to Chinese imperial capitals intermittently from 802 CE until 1875, viewed as tribute by China and as equal relations by Burma.
Burmese Way to Socialism
The Burmese Way to Socialism, also the Burmese Road to Socialism, was Burma's state ideology from 1962 to 1988, adopted after Ne Win's military coup of 1962.
Burmese–Siamese War (1584–1593)
The Burmese–Siamese War (1584–1593) saw Ayutthaya, under Prince Naresuan, defeat Burma at Nong Sarai in 1593, killing crown prince Mingyi Swa and ending Burmese vassalage.
Burmese–Siamese wars
The Burmese–Siamese wars (Thai: สงครามพม่า-สยาม; Burmese: ယိုးဒယားစစစပွဲများ) were military conflicts between Burma and Siam from the 16th to 19th centuries, climaxing in Burma's sack of Ayutthaya in 1767.
Burn pit
A burn pit is an area for open-air burning of trash, a waste-disposal practice the US military relied on heavily at bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Burnaburiash I
Burnaburiash I, also written Burna-Buriaš I, was the tenth Kassite king of Babylon in the mid-16th century BC, known from a border treaty with Assyria.
Burnaburiash II
Burnaburiash II (Burna-Buriaš II) was a Kassite king of Babylon in the mid-14th century BCE, best known as a correspondent of Akhenaten in the Amarna letters.
Burned Haystack Dating Method
Burned Haystack Dating Method (BHDM), created 2023 by rhetoric professor Jennie Young, is a high-filter online dating strategy using 10 rules, 33 red flag rhetorical patterns, and "block to burn" blocking, spread via a 260,000-member Facebook group and her book Burn the Haystack.
Burney Treaty
The Burney Treaty (สนธิสัญญาเบอร์นีย์) was the first Anglo-Siamese treaty, signed at Bangkok on 20 June 1826 between Siam under King Rama III and the British government of India.
Burnham ministry
The Burnham ministry, also called the Burnham government, was the government of Guyana led by Forbes Burnham from 1964 to 1985, marked by cooperative socialism and rigged elections.
Burnie Port Authority v General Jones Pty Ltd
Burnie Port Authority v General Jones Pty Ltd [1994] HCA 13; (1994) 179 CLR 520, High Court of Australia tort case in which the majority (Mason CJ, Deane, Dawson, Toohey, Gaudron JJ) subsumed the Rylands v Fletcher strict liability rule into ordinary negligence via a non-delegable duty of care.