High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Tabinshwehti (Burmese: တပင်]ရွှေထီး; MLCTS: ta. bang hrwe hti: 16 April 1516 - 30 April 1550; also spelt Tabinshweti) was a king who unified Burma (now Myanmar) in 1539 and known as the founder of the Second Burmese Empire.