Taninganway was the 14th king of Toungoo dynasty

Toungoo Dynasty

The Toungoo Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Burma from the mid-16th century to 1752. Its early kings Tabinshwehti and Bayinnaung succeeded in reunifying the Pagan Empire for the first time since 1287, and in incorporating the Shan States for the first time...

 of Burma (Myanmar) from 1714 to 1733. The long decline of Toungoo dynasty accelerated under Taninganway's reign. In the east, the kingdom of Lanna

Lanna

The Kingdom of Lanna was a kingdom centered in present-day northern Thailand from the 13th to 18th centuries. The cultural development of the people of Lanna, the Tai Yuan people, had begun long before as successive Tai Yuan kingdoms preceded Lanna...

 (Chiang Mai), which had been under Burmese rule since 1558, successfully revolted in 1725. Taninganway sent an army to recapture the breakaway region but it was driven out. In the northwest, the Manipuri horsemen began raids into Burmese territory, terrorizing the Burmese between Irrawaddy and Chindwin rivers. Taninganway's Burmese forces sent to meet the raiders were easily bypassed by the much more mobile Manipuri horsemen.

In 1724, U Kala compiled the Maha Yazawingyi (Great Chronicle), the first complete chronicle of Burmese history based on earlier sources.