Timeline March 1824

Events in March 1824 3

• 1824 First Anglo-Burmese War begins British East India Company declares war on the Burmese Empire The British East India Company declared war on the Konbaung dynasty of Burma on 5 March 1824 amid disputes over the border with British-controlled Bengal and Assam. The war, lasting until 1826, ended in a decisive British victory and forced Burma to cede Assam, Manipur, Arakan, and Tenasserim.
• 1824 Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 signed Britain and the Netherlands divide colonial spheres in Southeast Asia Signed in London on 17 March 1824, the treaty resolved colonial disputes by having the Dutch cede Malacca and withdraw claims north of the Strait of Malacca, while Britain ceded Bencoolen in Sumatra and recognized Dutch dominance there. The treaty laid the territorial basis for the later division between British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.
• 1824 Brazil grants its first constitution Pedro I issues imperial charter establishing constitutional monarchy On 25 March 1824, Emperor Pedro I promulgated Brazil's first constitution, establishing a centralized constitutional monarchy with an elected legislature. It was imposed after Pedro I dissolved the constituent assembly rather than fully negotiated, and remained in force until 1891.