King Taksin of Thonburi ( Siam, now Thailand ) was crowned king in 1768 ( he had defeated the Burmese ), reigned for fifteen years, united the kingdom and expanded its territorial jurisdiction.

Chroniclers mention that Taksin had become senile and consequently he was put to death by Chao Phra Chakri.

Rama I was born in the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, and had served King Taksin in wars against the Burmese Konbaung dynasty and helped him in the reunification of Siam.

On the eve of the fall of Ayutthaya, Phraya Wachira Prakarn ( later King Taksin ) had foreseen that the fall of the city was certain.

Some sources report that Taksin was consigned to a monastery.

Rama I moved the capital from Thonburi, which was founded by his predecessor Taksin, and built the new capital Bangkok.

It was capital of Thailand from 1767 to 1782, during the reign of King Taksin, after the previous capital Ayutthaya was sacked by the Burmese.

Taksin ( Royal Institute: Somdet Phra Chao Taksin Maharat ; or The King of the Thonburi Kingdom ; ; ; Teochew: Dên Chao ; Vietnamese: Trịnh Quốc Anh ) ( April 17, 1734 – April 7, 1782 ) was the only King of the Thonburi Kingdom.

This action was never adequately explained, as the Royal compound and Ayutthaya proper was located on an island ; how Taksin and his followers fought their way out of the Burmese encirclement remains a mystery.

Taksin took important steps to show that he was a worthy successor to the throne.

However, while King Taksin was assembling his forces at Chantaburi, Nai Sudchinda brought his retainers to join him, thus helping to increase his fighting strength.

Just after his coronation, Taksin was fortunate to secure the service of Luang Yokkrabut on the recommendation of Pra Mahamontri ( Thai: พระมหามนตร ี) and as he was equally familiar with him as with his brother, he raised him to be Pra Rajwarin.

Wood ( 1924 ), His ( Taksin ) father was Chinese or partly Chinese, and his mother Siamese, and has said " He believed that even the forces of nature were under his control when he was destined to succeeded, and this faith led him to attempt and achieve tasks which to another man would seem impossible.

Besides King Taksin, who had organized his force in the south-eastern provinces, Prince Teppipit, King Boromakot's son, who had been unsuccessful in a diversionary action against the Burmese in 1766, had set himself up as the ruler of Phimai holding sway over the eastern provinces including Nakhon Ratchasima or Khorat, while the Governor of Phitsanulok, whose first name was Ruang ( Thai: เร ื อง ), had proclaimed himself independent, with the territory under his control extending to the province of Nakhon Sawan.

But it was completely surrounded by the Thais at Bangkeo in Ratchaburi, and eventually starvation compelled the Burmese to capitulate to King Taksin.

Taksin followed the Burmese with a view to studying their strength, and his army was thus not prepared for a direct assault on their city fortress.

Champasak was added to the Kingdom of Siam, and King Taksin was so pleased with Chao Phraya Chakri's conduct of the campaign that he promoted him to be Somdej Chao Phraya Mahakasatsuek Piluekmahima Tuknakara Ra-adet ( Thai: สมเด ็ จเจ ้ าพระยามหากษ ั ตร ิ ย ์ ศ ึ ก พ ิ ล ึ กมห ึ มาท ุ กนคราระอาเดช ) ( meaning the supreme Chao Phraya, Great Warrior-King who was so remarkably powerful that every city was afraid of his might )— being the highest title of nobility that a commoner could reach.

King Taksin the Great Shrine is located on Tha Luang Road in front of Camp Taksin.

In 1768 Taksin crowned himself and founded the Kingdom of Thonburi on the west bank of the mouth of the Chao Phraya river, using Thonburi as a new capital.

" When a Thai army under the command of Chao Phraya Chakri and Chao Phraya Surasih reached Lampang, Phraya Chaban and Phraya Kawila, the two leading officials who had deserted the Burmese joined him in laying siege to Chaing Mai and soon King Taksin arrived on the spot.

Prince Talaha put Prince Ang Eng, the four year old son of the ex-King Narairaja, on the throne with himself acting as Regent, but he soon leaned too much Annam, thus coming into conflict with Taksin ’ s policy to support a pro-Thai prince on the Cambodian throne.

A considerable contribution to his success came from the Teochiu Chinese trading community of the region, on whom Taksin was able to call by virture of his paternal relations.

The monument featuring King Taksin riding on a horseback surrounded by his four trusted soldiers ; Pra Chiang-ngen ( later Phraya Sukhothai ), Luang Pichai-asa ( later Phraya Phichai ), Luang Prom-sena, Luang Raj-saneha.

In 1981 the Thai cabinet passed a resolution to bestow on King Taksin the honorary title of the Great.

The Maw Sukha Association on January 31, 1999 cast the King Taksin Savior of the Nation Amulet, which sought to honour the contributions of King Taksin to Siam during his reign.

In B. E. 2321, during the Thonburi Period when King Taksin the Great extended his armed forces up into the area of the Mekong River, he ordered Phra Mahakasut Suek and Chao Phya Chakri to dispatch their troops along the banks of the Mekong in order to suppress and unify the lords of all the realms great and small there on both sides of the Mekong together under the reign of the Kingdom of Thonburi, declaring Lord Chanthakinnaree the Phya Chanthasrisuraja Uparaja Mandhaturaj ( พระยาจ ั นทรศร ี ส ุ ราชอ ุ ปราชาม ั นธาต ุ ราช ), the first Lord of the Realm of Mukdahan and thereby officially named the realm Mueang Mukdahan.

The new trains were delivered in June 2010 to serve on the Silom Line, which cannot increase train frequency because of a single track bottleneck at Saphan Taksin station, though the number of passengers increased after the Wong Wian Yai and Krung Thonburi stations were opened.

Chakri who was on war duty marched back from Cambodia and deposed Taksin, who was purportedly ' secretly executed ' shortly after.

After the fall of Ayutthaya Nakhon Si Thammarat enjoyed a short period of independence, but was quickly subdued by Taksin on his mission to reunite Siam.

* April 6 – Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam ( now Thailand ) who is overthrown in an coup d ' etat and moves the political capital from Thonburi across the Menam to Rattanakosin Island, the historic center of Bangkok.

The Taksin bridge now supports the Silom line to Thon Buri, completed in April 2009.

* 1734 – Taksin, King of Thailand ( d. 1782 )

* 1782 – Taksin, King of Thailand ( b. 1734 )

The dynasty has ruled Thailand since the founding of the Ratthanakosin era and the city of Bangkok in 1782 following the end of King Taksin of Thonburi's reign, when the capital of Siam shifted to Bangkok.

He ascended the throne in 1782, after defeating a rebellion which had deposed King Taksin of Thonburi.

Taksin ruled from 1767 – 1782, but near the end of his reign he became increasingly dictatorial.

In the reign of King Taksin, 1768 – 1782, Prince Kinnari received appointment as Phraya Chandara Sri Surat () with a rank equivalent to viceroy ().

In 1782 Taksin sent his armies under Chakri, the future Rama I of Rattanakosin, to invade Cambodia, but while they were away a rebellion broke out in the area around the capital.

It is believed that a descendant of King Taksin the Great must have sent his clothes to be buried there to conform to Chinese practice.

Thong Duang at a young age entered the Royal Palace as one of the royal pages of King Uthumporn, where he met his childhood friend Taksin.

Having firmly established his power at Thonburi, King Taksin set out what can be called ' the reunification ' of the good old day kingdom, crushing the regional rivals.

This action was instantly regarded by King Taksin as a great insult to him, and at his command, Somdej Chao Phya Mahakasatsuek invaded Vientiane with an army of 20, 000 men in 1778.

However, the letters of a French missionaries who was in Thonburi at the time support the accounts of the monarch's peculiar behavior which reported that " He ( Taksin ) passed all his time in prayer, fasting, and meditation, in order by these means to be able to fly through the air.

The Official Annamese Chronicles states that Taksin was ordered to be executed by General Chao Phraya Chakri at Wat Chaeng by being sealed in a velvet sack and was beaten to death with a scented sandalwood club.

King Taksin ashes and that of his wife are located at Wat Intharam ( located in Thonburi ).

Statue of King Taksin the Great at Wongwian Yai.

King Taksin statue was unveiled in the middle of Wongwian Yai ( the Big Traffic Circle ) in Thonburi, at the intersection of Prajadhipok / Inthara Phithak / Lat Ya / Somdet Phra Chao Taksin Roads.

King Rama II starting the building of the new center at Samut Prakan in 1819, after his predecessor King Taksin had disbanded the town fortification.

Despite these successes, by 1779 Taksin was in political trouble at home.

It is believed that Taksin vowed to restore the temple after passing it at dawn.

After being deserted for almost 200 years, a Boy Scout camp was established at the site in 1967, and a shrine was built commemorating King Taksin.