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.

Mongkut's reign was also the time when the power of the House of Bunnag reached its zenith and became the most powerful noble family of Siam.

Thongchai Winichakul argues that Mongkut's efforts to popularize Western geography helped bring reform to education in Siam.

The President merely politely declined to accept King Mongkut's proposal, explaining to the King that the American climate might not be suitable for elephants and that American steam engines could also be used as beasts of burden and means of transportation.

* The King's Thai: Entry to Thai Historical Data – Mongkut's Edicts maintained by Doug Cooper of Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok ; accessed 2008-07-11.

King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang ( KMITL for short ) is a leading research and educational institution and it is known as the top-ranking engineering institute in Thailand.

Mongkut's first son and heir, Chulalongkorn, granted the Thammayut sect royal recognition in 1902 through the Ecclesiastical Polity Act ; it became one of the two major Buddhist denominations in modern Thailand.

With the support of powerful nobility and the Great Power, Britain, Mongkut's ascension to the throne was ensured.

However, Mongkut's own astrological calculations pointed out that his brother, Prince Isaret, was as well favored as himself to be the monarch.

" King Mongkut's calculations proved accurate.

A century later, during his state visit to the US, King Bhumibol of Thailand, who is Mongkut's great-grandson, referred to this event in his address before the US Congress on 29 June 1960.

Even King Mongkut's vice-king Pinklao becoming enamoured of it.

In 2007, SIIT joined NSTDA, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, and Tokyo Institute of Technology as founding members in the establishment of Thailand Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Punya Thitimajshima ( 9 November 1955-9 May 2006 ), a Thai professor in the department of telecommunications engineering at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, is the co-inventor with Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.

Thitimajshima was educated at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in control engineering and Master's degree in electrical engineering.

After moving to a new location at Lat Krabang near Suvarnabhumi Airport, the campus became King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang.

King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang ( KMITL ) is located in Lat Krabang ( approximately 30 kilometres east of the center of Bangkok ) and is a university with seven faculties: engineering, architecture, agricultural technology, science, industrial education, agricultural industry, and information technology.

This was probably becoming more prominent due to Western influences on Thailand during Mongkut's and later Chulalongkorn's reigns.

King Mongkut's Institute of Technology is a system of technology-oriented universities in Thailand.

Si Suriyawongse, was one of the most important figures in the Mongkut's court.

Vajirañana was born in the Grand Palace as the 4th child of Phae, one of King Mongkut's concubines.

The Mahanikaya order, perhaps somewhat influenced by Mongkut's reforms but with a less exacting discipline than the Dhammayuttika order, comprised about 95 percent of all monks in 1970 and probably about the same percentage in the late 1980s.

King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok ( KMUTNB ) is a leading technology university in Thailand.

His reign saw the appearance of the Institutes of Gaius, an elementary legal manual for beginners ( see Gaius ( jurist )).

His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urgell, Duchy of Athens, and Duchy of Neopatria into the Crown of Aragon.

Also as Salieri aged he moved slowly away from his more liberal political stances as he saw the enlightened reform of Joseph II's reign, and the hoped for reforms of the French revolution, replaced with more radical revolutionary ideas.

With the Hanoverian accession in Britain onwards, monarchs saw their powers pass further to their ministers, and Royal neutrality in politics became cemented from around the start of the reign of Queen Victoria ( though she had her personal favorites ) and enlargements to the franchise.

Co-emperor alongside his brothers, his short reign saw the beginnings of conflict emerge between the sons of Constantine the Great, and his attempt to exert his perceived rights of primogeniture ended up causing his death in a failed invasion of Italy in 340.

Domitian firmly believed in the traditional Roman religion, and personally saw to it that ancient customs and morals were observed throughout his reign.

The reign of Alfonso XIII ( 1886 – 1931 ) saw the Spanish-American War of 1898, culminating in the loss of the Philippines plus Spain's last colonies in the Americas, Cuba and Puerto Rico ; the " Great War " in Europe ( now known as World War I, 1914 – 1918 ), although Spain maintained neutrality throughout the conflict ; the influenza pandemic nicknamed the Spanish Flu ( 1918 – 1919 ); and the Rif War in Morocco ( 1920 – 1926 ).

His reign also saw the rise to dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, who seized control of the government by military coup in 1923 and ruled as a dictator – with the monarch's support – for seven years ( 1923 – 1930 ).

His reign saw vital developments in legislature and government — in particular the evolution of the English parliament — as well as the ravages of the Black Death.

His reign saw what has been characterised as a " Davidian Revolution ", by which native institutions and personnel were replaced by English and French ones, underpinning the development of later Medieval Scotland.

Henry I was one of the weakest kings of the Franks, and his reign saw the rise of some very powerful nobles such as William the Conqueror.

His reign also saw the launch of the First Crusade to regain the Holy Land, which heavily involved his family although he personally did not support the expedition.

His reign saw the French royal domain and influence greatly expanded.

However, Louis XIV's long reign saw France involved in many wars that drained its treasury.

His reign saw an expansion of the empire, including the invasion of Britain in 43 AD.

The first year of Jahangir's reign saw a rebellion organized by his eldest son Khusraw with the assistance of the Sikh Guru Arjun Dev and others.

An aesthete, Jahangir decided to start his reign with a grand display of " Justice ", as he saw it.

His reign saw the establishment of the first military orders, the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar ; the earliest surviving written laws of the kingdom, compiled at the Council of Nablus in 1120 ; and the first commercial treaty with Venice, the Pactum Warmundi, in 1124.

France's exile of the highly respected Sultan Mohammed V to Madagascar in 1953 and his replacement by the unpopular Mohammed Ben Aarafa, whose reign was perceived as illegitimate, sparked active opposition to the French protectorate both from nationalists and those who saw the sultan as a religious leader.

Mehmed III's reign saw no major setbacks for the supposedly declining Ottoman Empire.

Many of the Romans saw the beginning of Otto the 2nd ’ s reign as a glimmer of hope that it might be possible for them to recover their ancient rights and even free themselves from foreign rule.

The reign of Peter I's daughter Elizabeth in 1741 – 62 saw Russia's participation in the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ).

Thiele saw this as evidence that the northern kingdom was measuring the years by a non-accession system ( first partial year of reign was counted as year one ), whereas the southern kingdom was using the accession method ( it was counted as year zero ).

The reign of Alfonso II from ( 791-842 ) saw further expansion of the northwest kingdom towards the south and, for a short time, it almost reached Lisbon.

His reign saw the massive migration of native Sinhalese people to the south and west of Sri Lanka, and into the mountainous interior, in a bid to escape his power.