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Phutthayotfa Chulalok (Rama I)

Died in 1809

Phutthayotfa Chulalok, born Thongduang in 1737, in the time of the kingdom of Ayutthaya, was one of the great war leaders of King Taksin, who made him Chao Phraya Chakri. Ascending the throne in 1782 as Rama I, he founded the Chakri dynasty, which still reigns over Thailand, and established the capital at Bangkok. He had the first complete codification of Thai law undertaken in 1805 and died in Bangkok on 7 September 1809.

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