Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma. Like most former (and present) capitals of Burma; Mandalay was founded on the wishes of the ruler of the day. On 13 February 1857; King Mindon founded a new royal capital at the foot of Mandalay Hill; ostensibly to fulfill a prophecy on the founding of a metropolis of Buddhism in that exact place on the occasion of the 2;400th jubilee of Buddhism.