Tabinshwehti (; ; 1512 – 1550; also spelt Tabinshweti) was a king who unified Burma (now Myanmar) in 1539 and known as the founder of the Second Burmese Empire. Tabinshwehti succeeded his father Mingyinyo as ruler of the Toungoo dynasty in 1531. He moved the capital from Toungoo to the important trading centre of Pegu (1539). To rebuild a Burmese state, he engaged in a long series of military campaigns that ended only with his assassination in 1550. His brother-in-law Kyaw Htin Nawrata re-… (More on Tabinshwehti)