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About Thalun
- Thalun (Burmese: ??????????, pronounced [?à l?`?]; 17 June 1584 – 27 August 1648) was the eighth king of Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar).
- During his 19-year reign, Thalun successfully rebuilt the war-torn country which had been under constant warfare for nearly a century since the 1530s.
- Thalun instituted many administrative reforms and rebuilt the economy of the kingdom. In 1608, Anaukpetlun captured Prome and made Thalun the governor of Prome.
- In 1628, Anaukpetlun was murdered by his own son Minyedeippa who made himself king.
- Thalun was then on his campaigns against the Shans at Kengtung with his brother Minye Kyawswa II, the governor of Ava.
- However, the death of Anaukpetlun forced the two to return to Pegu to claim the throne from the unlawful king and to counter the opportunistic Arakanese invasions.
- Thalun became the center of rallying against Minyedaikpa and was proclaimed the crown prince. In 1629, Thalun and Minye Kyawswa were able to take Pegu and executed Minyedeippa.
- At Pegu, there was an assassination attempt by a Mon on King Thalun, which resulted in the massacre of the Mons. Thalun fought a three-year campaign against Lanna, finally subjugating them in 1632.
- In 1634, Thalun moved the capital to Ava and crowned himself king of Ava and made his brother Minye Kyawswa crown prince, Maha Uparaja.
- Thalun then concentrated on building pagodas and other works of merit.However, Minye Kyawswa died on 18 August 1647.
- Thalun then made his own son Pindale as the crown prince.
- The son of Minye Kyawswa who wanted the crown prince title for himself staged a rebellion.
- The palace was sacked and Thalun fled to Sagaing.
- However, the rebellion was soon put down and the conspirators were burnt alive.
- Thalun died on 19 October 1648, succeeded by his son Pindale.
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