Setthathirat, ruler of the Laotian kingdom of…
1571 CE
Setthathirat, ruler of the Laotian kingdom of Lan Xang, and often allied to the Siamese and the Shan states of Upper Burma in their defensive wars against Lower Burma’s expansionist King Bayinnaung, dies in 1571 at the age of thirty-seven.
Bayinnaung again invades Lan Xang.