What is Ugyen Wangchuck?
{{Infobox_Monarch | name = Ugyen Wangchuck<br>[[File:Ugyen Wangchuck Name.svg]] | title = 1st [[King of Bhutan]] | image =File:Ugyen Wangchuck, 1905.jpg | caption = | reign = December 17, 1907&ndash;August 21, 1926 | coronation = | predecessor = None (Hereditary Monarchy Created) | successor = [[Jigme Wangchuck]] | suc-type = | heir = | spouse = [[Ashi Tsundue Lhamo]] | issue = [[Jigme Wangchuck]] Lemo Wangchuck Lhadron Wangchuck | royal house = Wangchuck Dynasty | royal anthem = | father = [[Jigme Namgyal]] | mother = [[Ashi Pema Choki]] | birth_date = 1862 | birth_place = [[Bumthang District|Bumthang]], Wangduecholing Palace | death_date = August 7, 1926 (aged 64) | place of death = | place of burial= |}} '''Gongsa Ugyen Wangchuck'''({{lang-dz|[[File:Ugyen Wangchuck Name.svg]]}}, [[Wylie transliteration|Wylie]]: ''o rgyan dbang phyug''; 1862-1926) was the first [[List of rulers of Bhutan|King of Bhutan]] from 1907 to 1926. He was born in 1862 to Jigme Namgyal, [[Penlop]] (governor) of [[Trongsa]] and Ashi Pema Choki. He succeeded his father as [[Penlop]] of [[Trongsa]]. From his power base in central [[Bhutan]], Ugyen Wangchuck defeated his political enemies and united the country following several civil wars and rebellions in 1882&ndash;1885. In what was an epochal year for the country, in 1907 Ugyen Wangchuck was unanimously chosen as the hereditary monarch of the country by the people at [[Punakha]], the old Capital of Bhutan. For his services in mediating between the British and Tibetans during the [[Younghusband Expedition]] to [[Lhasa]], [[Tibet]],<ref>{{cite book| last = Rose| first = Leo E.| title = The Politics of Bhutan| url = https://archive.org/details/politicsofbhutan00rose| year = 1977| publisher = Cornell University Press| location = Ithaca| isbn = 978-0-8014-0909-7| page = [https://archive.org/details/politicsofbhutan00rose/page/36 36] }}</ref> he was knighted by the British in 1904. He was app