In the reign of King Narai the Great, the 26th king of Ayuadhya, in the mid of the 17th century it raised again.
In 1674, during the Ayuthaya era, King Narai the Great granted land in Bangkok to the Portuguese community to build the Church of Immaculate Conception.
This was a Portuguese vessel with 150 crew, commanded by Don Emmanual Da Silva, en route from Goa to Portugal and bearing diplomatic gifts from Narai, King of Siam to Pedro, King of Portugal, Louis XIV of France and Charles II of England.
The glorious period of Lopburi was during the reign of King Narai the Great.
In 1447 there was already a church consercated to Saint Thomas standing in the village.
When King Narai the Great built Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima as the northeastern frontier city of Ayutthaya, Mueang Pak was a frontier city of Nakhon Ratchasima, then called Dan Chapo (ด่านจะโปะ).
She was captured by the Siamese and forced to become a concubine of King Narai of Siam (now Thailand) in order to spare her husband's life.
King Narai the Great provided the area of Mueang Sam Khok for them to established new town.
In 1679, Siamese King Narai's armada began a final offensive to quash the Singora rebellion.
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He became governor of Bangkok and a general in the Siamese army, and left Siam shortly before King Narai fell ill and was deposed by a Coup d'état.
As unlikely as this was, it provided an excuse for Pra Phetracha, the foster brother of Narai to stage a coup d'état, the 1688 Siamese revolution.
The tales of the Ramakien are similar to those of the Ramayana, though transferred to the topography and culture of Ayutthaya, where the Avatar of Pra Narai (the Thai incarnation of Vishnu, who's also known as Narayan) is reborn as Pra Ram.