The ascension of King Chulalongkorn ( Rama V ) to the throne in 1868 ushered in a golden age not only for muay but for the whole country of Thailand.

However, it was during the later reigns of King Mongkut ( 1804 – 1868 ), and his son King Chulalongkorn ( 1853 – 1910 ), that Thailand established firm rapprochement with Western powers.

By 1887 during the next reign, King Chulalongkorn a permanent military command in the Kalahom Department was established.

Conflict became inevitable when a French mission, to peacefully bring Laos under French rule: led by Auguste Pavie to King Chulalongkorn ended in failure.

The use of fork and spoon were introduced by King Chulalongkorn after his return from a tour of Europe in 1897 CE.

* October 23 – Vajiravudh ( Rama VI ) is crowned King of Siam, after the death of his father, King Chulalongkorn ( Rama V ).

* October 23 – King Chulalongkorn of Siam ( b. 1853 )

* April 6 – first New Year's Day of the solar calendar adopted by Siamese King Chulalongkorn with the 106th anniversary of Bangkok's founding in 1782 as its epoch ( reference date ).

* In Thailand in 1888 King Chulalongkorn decreed a National Thai Era dating from the founding of Bangkok on April 6, 1782.

King Chulalongkorn appealed to the British, but the British minister told the King to settle on whatever terms he could get, and he had no choice but to comply.

In Thailand, actors darken their faces to portray the Negrito of Thailand in a popular play by King Chulalongkorn ( 1868 – 1910 ), Ngo Pa (), which has been turned into a musical and a movie.

Ragunda Municipality is known for being the site of the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Building, which is located by the village Utanede.

The Prince was a son of King Chulalongkorn the Great and his wife Queen Consort Savang Vadhana.

In 1949 the King married his first cousin once removed, Mom Rajawongse Sirikit Kitiyakara ( a daughter of Mom Chao Nakkhatra Mangkala Kitiyakara, a grandson of King Chulalongkorn ).

However, minor improvements have been effected after its first erection during Rama I's reign ; wood-work of the temple was replaced by King Rama III and King Chulalongkorn ; during King Mongkut's reign, the elegant doors and windows and the copper plates on the floor were additions, Rama III refurbished the wall painting ( indicative of the universe according to Buddhist cosmology ) and several frescoes that display the various stages of the Buddha's life ; three chambers were added on the western side by King Mongkut ; in the chamber known as ' Phra Kromanusorn ' at the northern end, images of Buddha have been installed in honour of the kings of Ayudya ; and in the 19th century, In Khong, a famous painter executed the wall murals.

All his reforms were dedicated to Siam ’ s insurance of survival in the midst of Western colonialism, so that Chulalongkorn earned the epithet Phra Piya Maharat ( พระป ิ ยมหาราช – The Great Beloved King ).

King Mongkut with Prince Chulalongkorn, both in Naval uniforms.

King Chulalongkorn was born on 20 September 1853 to King Mongkut and Queen Debsirindra and given the name Chulalongkorn.

* 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ) of Siam ( modern day Thailand ) founded the Chakri dynasty.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

King Charles II, who founded the Royal Observatory Greenwich in 1675 instructed the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, ".

* 1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

Noteworthy, too, is St. Mildred's Priory, Isle of Thanet, Kent, built in 1027 on the site of an Abbey founded in 670 by the daughter of the first Christian King of Kent.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

Except for the House of Braganza ( founded by an illegitimate son of King John I of Portugal, who was himself illegitimate ), all current major Capetian branches are of the Bourbon cadet branch.

File: Krakow kosciol sw Katarzyny 20070930 1522. jpg | Saint Catherine Church in Kazimierz, founded by the King in 1363

File: Herma of Saint Sigismund in Płock Cathedral. PNG | Herma of Saint Sigismund of Burgundy, founded by the King for Płock Cathedral

Dublin Castle, which became the centre of Norman power in Ireland, was founded in 1204 as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England.

One of the oldest is Dublin Castle, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.

There was probably rivalry between the Benedictine Monastery of St Maurice founded at Magdeburg by Otto and Eadgyth in 937, a year after coming to the throne and Matilda's foundation at Quedlinburg Abbey, intended by her as a memorial to her husband, the late King Henry I.

Holden founded a new company in 1919, Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd ( HMBB ) specialising in car bodies and utilising a facility on King William Street in Adelaide.

Woodford, whom British occult writer Francis King describes as the fourth founder ( although Woodford died shortly after the Order was founded ).

Another abbey was founded by King Offa of Mercia in 793.

The Aeronautica Militare Italiana ( AMI ), the air force of Italy, was founded as an independent service arm on March 28, 1923, by King Vittorio Emanuele III as the Regia Aeronautica ( which equates to " Royal Air Force ").

According to the legend, King Abenner or Avenier in India persecuted the Christian Church in his realm, founded by the Apostle Thomas.

With help from the Italian city-states and other adventurers, notably King Sigurd I of Norway, Baldwin captured the port cities of Acre ( 1104 ), Beirut ( 1110 ), and Sidon ( 1111 ), while exerting his suzerainty over the other crusader states to the north – Edessa ( which he had founded in 1097 during the crusade ), Antioch, and Tripoli, which he helped capture in 1109.

* Habibia High School, a British-Afghan school founded in 1903 by King Habibullah Khan.

* the Order of the Dragon, founded by King Sigismund of Luxemburg in 1408

* the Order of the Thistle, founded by King James VII of Scotland ( also known as James II of England ) in 1687

* the Order of the Elephant, which may have been first founded by Christian I of Denmark, but was founded in its current form by King Christian V in 1693