What was the last royal capital of the Burmese kingdom before its annexation by the British in 1885 when King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat were exiled after the Third Anglo-Burmese War?
Mandalay was officially completed only two years later, on Monday, 23 May 1859. For the next 26 years, Mandalay was to be the last royal capital of the Konbaung Dynasty, the last independent Burmese kingdom before its final annexation by the British Empire. Mandalay ceased to be the capital on 28 November 1885 when the conquering British sent Thibaw Min and his queen Supayalat into exile, ending the Third Anglo-Burmese War. While Mandalay would continue to be the chief city of Upper Burma during the British colonial rule, the commercial and political importance had irreversibly shifted to Yangon. The British view
Anglo-Burmese people extant in the area where an awareness of some European ancestry remains. The first war with the British formally ended in 1826 with the Treaty of Yandabo, with the coastal provinces of Arakan and Tanintharyi ("Tenasserim") being annexed to British rule and Mawlamyine ("Moulmein") established as the Brititsh colonial capital. In 1852, the second Second Anglo-Burmese War concluded with the annexation of the Bago Region to what became known as Lower or "British" Burma. The Third Anglo-Burmese War began in 1886 after a number of social and legal issues combined with the revelation of a commercial trade agreement King Thibaw