father predecessor reign succession successor house mother birth_place death_date death_place religion birth_date spouse article_title name type
tharrawaddy tharrawaddy 17 -rrb- november 1846 -- 18 february 1853 -lrb- abdicated king of burma prince of pagan mindon konbaung me myat shwe , princess of taungoo amarapura 14 march 1880 mandalay theravada buddhism 21 june 1811 min shwe kyu 18 queens in total pagan min
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pagan min

pagan min -lrb- , ; 21 june 1811 -- 14 march 1880 -rrb- , was the ninth king of the konbaung dynasty of burma .
born maung biddhu khyit , he was granted the title of prince of pagan by his father tharrawaddy in august 1842 .
pagan min became king when tharrawaddy died on 17 november 1846 , with the formal title of his majesty `` pyinsama thangayana-tin sri pawara vijaya nanda jatha maha dharma rajadhiraja pagan min taya-gyi '' .
he married 18 times .
pagan min won the power struggle to succeed his father by having his rival brothers killed .
his chief ministers maung baing zat and maung bhein enriched themselves by executing rich subjects .
the second anglo-burmese war broke out during the reign of pagan min .
in 1851 the governor of pegu , maung ok , charged the captains of two british merchant ships with murder , embezzlement , and evasion of custom duties .
he fined them 500 rupees before being allowed to return to kolkata .
after receiving their complaints , lord dalhousie , the governor-general of british india , sent commodore george lambert to the king requesting a compensation of # 920 and the dismissal of maung ok .
pagan complied by replacing maung ok .
but on 6 january 1852 , when the new governor declined to meet with a british delegation because lambert had seized the burmese royal ship , all british subjects were evacuated and the coast of rangoon was blockaded .
within days , british warships were bombarding yangon .
on 7 february , pagan wrote dalhousie to protest against the acts of aggression .
on 13 february , dalhousie sent an ultimatum to the king , demanding an equivalent of # 100,000 as compensation for `` having had to prepare for war '' , to be paid by 1 april .
the ultimatum expired with no reply , and a few days later , british troops invaded the burmese territory .
britain annexed the province of pegu in december .
pagan min 's half brother mindon opposed the war ; he fled with his brother kanaung to shwebo and raised the standard of rebellion .
after a few weeks of fighting , pagan 's chief minister magwe mingyi went over to mindon 's side and pagan min abdicated on 18 february 1853 , in favour of mindon .
mindon allowed pagan to live , and released all the european prisoners .
mindon sued for peace with the british but refused to sign a treaty ceding burmese territory .
