Alaungpaya DynastyArticle Free Pass Alaungpaya Dynasty, also
called Konbaung, the last ruling dynasty (1752–1885) of Myanmar
(Burma). The dynasty’s collapse in the face of British imperial
might marked the end of Myanmar sovereignty for more than 60
years. (Some authorities limit the name Konbaung dynasty to the
period beginning with King Bodawpaya in 1782 and continuing to
1885.) The Alaungpaya dynasty led Myanmar in an era of
expansionism that was only brought to an end by defeat in the
First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824–26. By the 18th century Myanmar
under the Toungoo dynasty (1486–1752) was fragmented: the Shan
States to the north and east of Ava were as much Chinese as
Burmese, while in the southeast the Mon people’s separatism had
been rekindled by 1740. In 1752 Alaungpaya, a village headman in
Shwebo (then called Moksobomyo; near Mandalay), organized an
army and led a successful attack against the Mon rulers of the
southern part of Myanmar. Alaungpaya led his armies southward,
crushing all local resistan