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People: Johannes Vermeer
Topic: Thai War of 1451-56
Location: Varanasi (Benares) Uttar Pradesh India

Thai War of 1451-56

Years: 1451 - 1456

The emerging Kingdom of Ayutthaya is growing powerful.

Relations between the Ayutthaya and Lan Na had worsened since the Ayutthayan support of Thau Choi's rebellion In 1451, Yuttitthira, a noble of the Kingdom of Sukhothai who has conflicts with Borommatrailokkanat of Ayutthaya, gives himself to Tilokaraj.

Yuttitthira urges Borommatrailokkanat to invade Phitsanulok, igniting the Ayutthaya-Lan Na War over the Upper Chao Phraya valley (the Kingdom of Sukhothai).

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)