Bhutan's monarchy began when Ugyen Wangchuck, the powerful governor of Trongsa, was chosen by an assembly of monks, officials and leading families to be the first hereditary king, or Druk Gyalpo. The kingdom had been unified in the seventeenth century by the Tibetan Buddhist lama Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, but later centuries brought rivalry among regional governors and a weakened central authority. Wangchuck's rule restored order and brought the country into closer, carefully managed contact with British India, formalised in a treaty in 1910. Bhutan kept its independence, signed a friendship treaty with India in 1949 and joined the United Nations in 1971. Since 2008 it has been a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament.
Before and after
- 17 October 1907Founding of Atalanta BC
- from 14 November 1907 to 30 November 19071907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition
- 14 November 1907Birth of Astrid Lindgren
- 15 December 1907Birth of Oscar Niemeyer
- 17 December 1907Founding of Bhutan
- from 1908 to 1946Kingdom of Bulgaria
- from 1908 to 1913Geiger–Marsden experiment
- 1908Founding of Cairo University
- 1908Identification of Takayasu's arteritis
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