King Min Khaung Ra Za built Thattawra pagoda on the hill which is 50 feet high and one mile away from the palace site in AD 1525. Eighty years ago, U Pha Taw renovated the pagoda because it fell into ruins. The base of the pagoda is in the form of substructure, and the upper part of the pagoda is in the form of conical pagoda. The pagoda is enclosed with the four small surrounding pagodas. The stone sculptural flowers, were sculpted at the whole cave.
1836 – 1846 * During this period the first English-language newspaper was launched under British-ruled Tenasserim, southern Burma . The first ethnic Karen-language and Burmese-language newspapers also appear in this period. March 3, 1836 —The first English-language newspaper, The Maulmain Chronicle , appears in the city of Moulmein in British-ruled Tenasserim. The paper, first published by a British official named E.A. Blundell, continued up until the 1950s. September 1842 —Tavoy’s Hsa-tu-gaw (the Morning Star ), a monthly publication in the Karen-language of Sgaw , is established by the Baptist mission. It is the first ethnic language newspaper. Circulation reached about three hundred until its publication ceased in 1849. January 1843 —The Baptist mission publishes a monthly newspaper, the Christian Dhamma Thadinsa (the Religious Herald ), in Moulmein. Supposedly the first Burmese-language newspaper, it continued up until the first year of the second Angl
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