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Mongkut
Mongkut, King Rama IV of Siam, reigned from 1851 to 1868. Before his accession he spent 27 years as a Buddhist monk, founding the reformist Thammayut order and studying Latin, English and Western science. As king he signed the Bowring Treaty of 1855 and similar treaties that opened Siam to Western trade, and he died of malaria caught on an expedition to observe a solar eclipse.
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