Birthday of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck in Bhutan
Birthday of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck in Bhutan is held on November 11. Also Consitution Day. This event in the second decade of the month November is annual. 
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Jigme Singye Wangchuk was crowned King of Bhutan at age 18, making him the youngest monarch and leader in the world at that time. He took the title “Druk Gyalpo” or Dragon King. His coronation on June 2, 1974 was the first time many Bhutanese tried popcorn and ice cream cones.
His Majesty Jigme Singye Wanchuck is also the creator of internationally known philosophy “Gross National Happiness”. Today, GNH is a Bhutan's guiding development policy. In 2006, His Majesty the Great Fourth abdicated the throne in favor of the Crown Prince, His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Coronation of the fifth Druk Gyalpo in Bhutan on November 1 (འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ - King Jigme Khesar Namgyel's);
Lhabab Duchen or Descending Day of Lord Buddha on November 11 (Celebrate on the twenty second day of the ninth month of the Buddhist calendar);
National Day in Bhutan on December 17 (celebrates its National Day on 17 December, in commemoration of the day in 1907 when Gongsar Wangchuk was crowned the first king over a united Bhutan);
Nyinlong in Bhutan on January 2 (or Winter Solstice. Dzongkha: ཉིན་ལོང་, Wylie: nyin long "return of the sun");
Traditional Day of Offerings in Bhutan on January 19 (celebrated on the first day of the twelfth month of the Bhutanese calendar. In eastern Bhutan, the first day of the 12th Bhutanese month is celebrated as a New Year);
Losar, Tibetan New Year on February 17
King's Birthday in Bhutan on February 21 (Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk was born on February 21, 1980);
Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo in Bhutan on February 21 (celebrated until February 23)
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