Skip to content
Conflict East Asia

Wars of Lan Xang

1353 CE – 1707 CE · 354 years

The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang fought for survival against its powerful neighbours for 350 years, at its peak controlling territory from the Mekong to the Vietnamese highlands.

See it on the timeline

Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Kingdom of Lan Xang
  • Siam, Burma, Đại Việt, Champa

Key moments

Defining events in the Wars of Lan Xang.

  1. 1353 Fa Ngum's unification
  2. 1574 Burmese invasion
  3. 1707 Fragmentation into three kingdoms

Elsewhere in East Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary

400 CE – 1400 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Silk Road

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States)

1467 CE – 1615 CE

Polity · East Asia

Great Khanate

1271 CE – 1400 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Forbidden City

1406 CE – still standing

Trade route · East Asia

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty

1618 CE – 1683 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1353 CE and 1707 CE.

1397 CE Kinkaku-ji 1400 CE Malacca 1406 CE Forbidden City 1412 CE Wudang Mountains Temples 1420 CE Temple of Heaven

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Tongan Maritime Power and Rivalries Conflict · Americas 1200 CE – 1600 CE Ibn Battuta Figure · Morocco / Global 1304 CE – 1368 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons