Tharrawaddy Min (, ; 14 March 1787 – 17 November 1846) was the 8th king of the

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. He repudiated the Treaty of Yandabo and almost went to war with the

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Tharrawaddy was born Maung Khin to Crown Prince Thado Minsaw (son of King Bodawpaya) and Princess Min Kye on 14 March 1787. When his elder brother Bagyidaw ascended the throne in 1819, Tharrawaddy was appointed Heir Apparent. As crown prince, he fought in the First Anglo-Burmese War. In February 1837, he raised the standard of rebellion after escaping to

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, the ancestral place of the Konbaung kings. Tharrawaddy succeeded in overthrowing Bagyidaw who abdicated on 30 April 1837. Tharrawaddy ascended the throne on the same day.Konbaung Set Vol. 2 2004: 368 Princess Min Myat Shwe, a granddaughter of Hsinbyushin, whom he married in 1809, was crowned as his chief queen (''Nanmadaw Mibaya Hkaungyi''). In 1841, King Tharrawaddy donated a 42-ton bell called the Maha Tissada Gandha Bell and of goldplating to the

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. His reign was rife with rumours of preparations for another war with the British who had added the Arakan and Tenasserim to their dominions. Tharrawaddy died on 17 November 1846. It was, however, not until 1852, after Tharrawaddy was succeeded by his son Pagan Min, that the Second Anglo-Burmese War broke out.

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* Konbaung dynasty People of the First Anglo-Burmese War 1787 births 1846 deaths 19th-century Burmese monarchs {{Burma-royal-stub