{"aliases":[],"awards":[],"biography_summary":"Taksin the Great or the King of Thonburi (17 April 1734 \u2013 7 April 1782) was a Thai Chinese general who became the only King of Thonburi that ruled Siam from 1767 to 1782. Taksin had been an aristocrat in the Ayutthaya Kingdom and then was a major leader during the liberation of Siam from Burmese occupation after the Second Fall of Ayutthaya in 1767, and the subsequent unification of Siam after it fell under various warlords. He established the city of Thonburi as the new capital, as the city of Ayutthaya had been almost completely destroyed by the invaders. His reign was characterized by numerous wars; he fought to repel new Burmese invasions and to subjugate the northern Thai kingdom of Lanna, the Laotian principalities, and threatening Cambodia. Although warfare occupied most of Taksin's reign, he paid a great deal of attention to politics, administration, economy, and the welfare of the country. He promoted trade and fostered relations with foreign countries. He had roads built and canals dug. Apart from restoring and renovating temples, the king attempted to revive literature, and various branches of the arts such as drama, painting, architecture and handicrafts. He also issued regulations for the collection and arrangement of various texts to promote education and religious studies. He was taken in a coup d'\u00e9tat and executed in 1782, and succeeded by his long-time friend Maha Ksatriyaseuk, who then assumed the throne, founding the Rattanakosin Kingdom and the Chakri dynasty, which has since ruled Thailand.","birth_date":"1734-04-17","birth_place":"Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya","birth_place_coordinates":{"latitude":14.359359,"longitude":100.576145},"birth_place_wikidata_id":"Q203370","birth_place_wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203370","canonical_name":"Taksin","canonical_url":"https://zh-cn.instaget.online/people/8db87d1c00e8490e7611a46d","citizenships":["Thailand"],"death_date":"1782-04-07","description":"King of Siam","external_ids":{"isni":{"id":"0000000090440907","url":"https://isni.org/isni/0000000090440907"},"loc":{"id":"n78083246","url":"https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78083246.html"},"viaf":{"id":"57877764","url":"https://viaf.org/viaf/57877764/"}},"full_name":"Taksin","height_cm":null,"names":{"aliases":["King of Thailand","King Taksin","King Krung Thonburi","King Boromracha 4","Phra Choa Taksin","Phrachoa Tak","Phrachpa Taksin Maharaja","Taksin The Great","Phraya Tak","Phrabat Somdej Phrachoa Taksin Maharaja","Phraya Krung Thonburi","Somdej Phrachoa Taksin","Pin Tat","Tia Sin Tat","King Taksin the Great"],"birth":[],"native":[{"language":"th","source_property":"P1559","value":"\u0e2a\u0e21\u0e40\u0e14\u0e47\u0e08\u0e1e\u0e23\u0e30\u0e40\u0e08\u0e49\u0e32\u0e15\u0e32\u0e01\u0e2a\u0e34\u0e19\u0e21\u0e2b\u0e32\u0e23\u0e32\u0e0a"}],"official":[]},"native_name":null,"notable_works":[],"occupations":["sovereign","poet"],"official_websites":[],"photo":{"author":"Italian artist or a disciple of a Jesuit.","license":"Public domain","license_url":null,"source":"Wikimedia Commons","source_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Taksin_of_Thonburi_Portrait_Painting.png","url":"https://instaget-public-commons.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/public/commons/ff5f03ccc5dfec715dd838111d8977c7a768787fe6dcc5cd727348096bce09ad"},"profile_url":"https://zh-cn.instaget.online/people/8db87d1c00e8490e7611a46d","provenance":{"catalog":"wikidata_wikipedia","fetched_at":"2026-08-29T07:24:34Z","social_archives_included":false,"source_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320097"},"public_hash":"8db87d1c00e8490e7611a46d","schema_version":"1.1","socials":{},"tags":[{"key":"category:arts-and-culture","label":"Arts and culture","type":"category"},{"key":"occupation:sovereign","label":"sovereign","type":"occupation"},{"key":"occupation:poet","label":"poet","type":"occupation"},{"key":"country:phra nakhon si ayutthaya","label":"Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya","type":"country"},{"key":"citizenship:thailand","label":"Thailand","type":"citizenship"}],"wikidata_id":"Q320097","wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320097","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taksin"}