March 22
1784: The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand
1955: the Sangkum Reastr Niyum was founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk . Though it described itself as a ‘movement’ rather than a political party (members had to abjure membership of any political group), the Sangkum retained control of the government of Cambodia throughout the first administration of Sihanouk, from 1955 to 1970.
1970: the entire Cambodian National Assembly voted to bar the return of Sihanouk to the country.
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Where was it moved from? Luang Prabang? This piece has an interesting history.1784: The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand
Mike Farce wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 6:48 pmWhere was it moved from? Luang Prabang? This piece has an interesting history.1784: The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand
Quite the history.
In 1779, the Siamese General Chao Phraya Chakri invaded Laos, looted Vientiane and took the Emerald Buddha to Siam. It was installed in a shrine close to Wat Arun in Thonburi, the new capital of Siam. Chao Phra Chakri then seized the throne for himself and founded the Chakri Dynasty of the Rattanakosin Kingdom, where he would later be titled King Rama I. He shifted his capital across Chao Phraya river to its present location in Bangkok, and constructed the new Grand Palace including Wat Phra Kaew within its compound. Wat Phra Kaew was consecrated in 1784, and the Emerald Buddha was moved with great pomp to its current home in the ubosot of the Wat Phra Kaew temple complex on 22 March 1784.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Buddha
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I think it goes back further than that, and was originally stolen from the Khmer Empire.
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March 23
1907- Franco-Siam Treaty was signed. This ceded the annexed territory of Phra Tabong, known in Khmer as Preah Bat Dambang Kranhoung, back to Cambodia. The territory encompassed much of the north of Cambodia, including Angkor Wat.
1967- Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. calls the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.
1970- Sihanouk- assured of support by the PRC, called from Beijing for “all Khmer patriots” to “crush the traitors” thus creating the “Union of Khmers from abroad and inside with the ideals of Independence, democracy, neutrality, progressism, socialism, Buddhism, nationalism, attachment to territorial integrity within the current borders, anti-imperialism and anti neo-colonialism. ” He stressed the “rape of the constitution” and labelled the new Kampuchean (headed by Lon Nol) regime as “the new fascist power that serves the US imperialism”. This was, arguably, the beginning of the 1970-75 civil war.
In the following days, in Vonsai, Rattanakiri Province, the anti-Lon Nol groups National United Front of Kampuchea (FUNK) and National Liberation Armed Forces of Kampuchea (NLAFK) were formed.
1972, North Vietnamese frogmen sank a 5,000-ton freighter at the city’s Tonle Sab river port and damaged another at the nearby Chroy Changvar naval base on the Mekong River. Floating mines damaged two fuel barges moored in the same area opposite the city.
1907- Franco-Siam Treaty was signed. This ceded the annexed territory of Phra Tabong, known in Khmer as Preah Bat Dambang Kranhoung, back to Cambodia. The territory encompassed much of the north of Cambodia, including Angkor Wat.
1967- Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. calls the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.
1970- Sihanouk- assured of support by the PRC, called from Beijing for “all Khmer patriots” to “crush the traitors” thus creating the “Union of Khmers from abroad and inside with the ideals of Independence, democracy, neutrality, progressism, socialism, Buddhism, nationalism, attachment to territorial integrity within the current borders, anti-imperialism and anti neo-colonialism. ” He stressed the “rape of the constitution” and labelled the new Kampuchean (headed by Lon Nol) regime as “the new fascist power that serves the US imperialism”. This was, arguably, the beginning of the 1970-75 civil war.
In the following days, in Vonsai, Rattanakiri Province, the anti-Lon Nol groups National United Front of Kampuchea (FUNK) and National Liberation Armed Forces of Kampuchea (NLAFK) were formed.
1972, North Vietnamese frogmen sank a 5,000-ton freighter at the city’s Tonle Sab river port and damaged another at the nearby Chroy Changvar naval base on the Mekong River. Floating mines damaged two fuel barges moored in the same area opposite the city.
March 24
1972- an old French pickup truck stalled midpoint on the Japanese Friendship Bridge connecting Phnom Penh and the Chruoy Changvar peninsula. 2,000 pounds of explosives blew the truck through the bottom of the bridge crossing the Tonle Sab, twisted the central span’s steel girders and killed or wounded 11. Bailey bridging (prefabricated steel lattice sections) was used to regain the crossing, making it possible for the bridge to be reopened only days later.
1993- a group of assailants attacked ethnic Vietnamese fishing boats in Kompong Chhnang Province resulting in 8 deaths, including three children. The National Army of Democratic Kampuchea was blamed for the attack, along with another on a floating village in Siem Reap two weeks earlier, which killed 33 people, including 12 children, and injured 24.
1972- an old French pickup truck stalled midpoint on the Japanese Friendship Bridge connecting Phnom Penh and the Chruoy Changvar peninsula. 2,000 pounds of explosives blew the truck through the bottom of the bridge crossing the Tonle Sab, twisted the central span’s steel girders and killed or wounded 11. Bailey bridging (prefabricated steel lattice sections) was used to regain the crossing, making it possible for the bridge to be reopened only days later.
1993- a group of assailants attacked ethnic Vietnamese fishing boats in Kompong Chhnang Province resulting in 8 deaths, including three children. The National Army of Democratic Kampuchea was blamed for the attack, along with another on a floating village in Siem Reap two weeks earlier, which killed 33 people, including 12 children, and injured 24.
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