Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between the British Empire and the Kingdom of Siam
Thai version of the Treaty, written on Thai black books, prior to being sent to Great Britain to be affixed with the Royal seal.
Type
Treaty
Signed
18 April 1855
Location
Bangkok, Siam
Parties
Siam
British Empire
Language
Thai and English
Full text
Bowring Treaty at Wikisource
The Bowring Treaty was a treaty signed between the British Empire and the Kingdom of Siam on 18 April 1855. The treaty had the primary effect of liberalizing foreign trade in Siam, and was signed by five Siamese plenipotentiaries (among them Wongsa Dhiraj Snid, one of the King's half-brothers) and Sir John Bowring, the British envoy and colonial governor of Hong Kong.
The BowringTreaty was a treaty signed between the British Empire and the Kingdom of Siam on 18 April 1855. The treaty had the primary effect of liberalizing...
He died in Claremont in Devon on 23 November 1872. Bowring was born in Exeter of Charles Bowring (1769–1856: 381 ), a wool merchant whose main market...
honorific Pana Hua Chao Than (Thai: พณหัวเจ้าท่าน). BowringTreaty was the first of "unequal treaties" that had been agreed by Siam with Western nations...
behalf of the Siamese. The result was the BowringTreaty between the two nations. The main principle of the treaty was to abolish the Royal Storage (พระคลังสินค้า)...
under Siamese rule. As the Burney Treaty did not adequately address commerce, it was a subject of the BowringTreaty, signed by King Mongkut (Rama IV)...
"BowringTreaty", which abolished the royal foreign trade monopoly, abolished import duties, and granted Britain a most favourable clause. The Bowring...
mission led by Sir John Bowring, Governor of Hong Kong, led to the signing of the BowringTreaty, the first of many unequal treaties with Western countries...
negotiation of the BowringTreaty of 1855, as well as a role in the subsequent negotiation of the Harris Treaty of 1856 that updated the Roberts treaty of 1833....
government forbade the export of rice, the main Siamese export since the BowringTreaty. Queen Mother Saovabha, Vajiravudh's mother, died in 1919. Siamese participation...
or Siamese-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce (1833) Treaty of Amity and Commerce (U.K.-Siam) or BowringTreaty (1855) Treaty of Amity and Commerce...
Lanna were not treated in accordance with BowringTreaty terms. Kawilorot replied that the BowringTreaty did not apply to Lanna as there was no mention...
began the change to a market economy with the BowringTreaty, negotiated by free-trade advocate Sir John Bowring with Siam's modernizing King Mongkut, signed...
the BowringTreaty in April 1855. Bowring had demanded free trade and to end the monopoly of Siamese royal court in Western trade. The BowringTreaty was...
the slave tradition. The traditional corvée system declined after the BowringTreaty, which gave rise to a new class of employed labourers not regulated...
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Journal of the Siam Society. 98: 172–73. Terwiel, B.J. (1991). "The BowringTreaty: Imperialism and the Indigenous Perspective" (PDF). Journal of the Siam...
have knowledge of the ancient political climate. Nor aware that the BowringTreaty, which nearly all considered a significant advancement, had accomplished...
The BowringTreaty, signed in 1855, guaranteed the privileges of British traders. The Harris Treaty of 1856, which updated the Roberts Treaty of 1833...
Andelot. Also known as the Treaty of Tudmir. Also known as the Treaty of Tudején. Also known as the Treaty of Winchester or the Treaty of Westminster. Also...
of the BowringTreaty of 1855 delayed Harris for about a month, but he had only to negotiate minor points to transform it into the Harris Treaty of 1856...