The following lists events that happened during 1988 in the Union of Burma. President: until 27 July: San Yu 27 July–12 August: Sein Lwin 12 August–18...

Win from 1962 to 1988. Ne Win and his allies in the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) overthrew the government of Prime Minister U Nu in a coup d'état on 2...

Uprising and the 1988 Uprising, was a series of nationwide protests, marches, and riots in Burma (present-day Myanmar) that peaked in August 1988. Key events...

called the Burmese Way to Socialism. Following the violent repression of nationwide protests in 1988, the military agreed to free elections in 1990, but...

The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma. It was part of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II and primarily...

Socialist Burma period of 1962 to 1988. Ne Win founded the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) and overthrew the democratic Union Parliament of U Nu in the...

British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British...

Revolutionary Council of the Union of Burma 1974–1988: President of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma 1988–1997: Chairman of the State Law and...

Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland...

The Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) was Burma's ruling party from 1962 to 1988 and the sole legal party from 1964 to 1988. Party chairman Ne Win...

Burma (1974–1988), the Burmese state under the military dictatorship of Ne Win Union of Burma (1988–1989), later known as the Union of Myanmar (1989–2011)...

article contains Burmese script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. The president...

display the Burmese script in this article correctly. Insurgencies have been ongoing in Myanmar since 1948, the year the country, then known as Burma, gained...

Athletes from Burma competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The nation sent a small delegation of two athletes and three officials...

Union of Myanmar was adopted on 21 October 2010. The State Flag described in the 2008 Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar was adopted...

Myanmar (formerly Burma) (Burmese: မြန်မာ) operates de jure as a unitary assembly-independent presidential republic under its 2008 constitution. On 1...

The 1988 Myanmar–India earthquake, also known as the Indo–Burma earthquake struck the Sagaing Region of Myanmar, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the...

Union of Burma 1974–1988: Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma 1988–2011: Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar 2021          :...

The economy of Myanmar is the seventh largest in Southeast Asia. After the return of civilian rule in 2011, the new government launched large-scale reforms...

Mission of Burma was an American post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. The group formed in 1979 with Roger Miller on guitar, Clint Conley on bass...

2010 in time for the elections. Although the regime retreated from the totalitarian Burmese Way to Socialism of the BSPP when it took power in 1988, the...

မကဒတ) is an opposition group in Myanmar (also known as Burma). It was founded on 1 November 1988, after the 8888 protests in Yangon. The group's leadership...

Republic of the Union of Burma, the socialist state governed by the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) from 1962 to 1988. The Burmese Way to Socialism was...

The first fourteen years of independent Burma (Myanmar) were marred by several communist and ethnic insurgencies. Prominent insurgent groups during this...

Myanmar (Burma) and the United States had a diplomatic contact prior to the British colonial period. They established formal diplomatic relations in 1947...

Rail transport in Myanmar consists of a 6,207.644 km (3,857 mi) railway network with 960 stations. The network, generally spanning north to south with...

contains Burmese script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. Yangon (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်;...

(CNF), and was founded on 20 March 1988 alongside it. The CNA signed a ceasefire agreement with the government of Myanmar on 6 January 2012. The CNA is a...

were three Burmese Wars or Anglo-Burmese Wars: First Anglo-Burmese War (1824 to 1826) Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852 to 1853) Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885)...

seventh president of Burma from 19 August 1988 to 18 September 1988. Maung Maung was born on 31 January 1925 in Mandalay, British Burma. He was the only son...