Timeline History Of Vietnam
Whitmore adjunct associate professor of history university of michigan.
Timeline history of vietnam. This section is empty. This is a timeline of vietnamese history comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in vietnam and its predecessor states to read about the background to these events see history of vietnam. 1946 french forces attack viet minh in haiphong in november sparking the war of resistance against the colonial power.
You can help by adding to it. 1950 democratic. Brief overview of the history of vietnam vietnam has a history of tribes uniting to form strong dynasties.
A chronology of key events in the history of vietnam. He was a teacher in the chicago suburbs and seoul south korea prior to joining britannica as a freelancer in 2000. The history of vietnam begins around 2 700 years ago.
The first dynasty that many consider to be the start of the vietnamese state was the hong bang dynasty which was ruled by the legendary hung kings. 3000bc 1200ad 3000bc 1000bc tribes from southern china moved into red river delta area 208bc chinese general trieu da made himself emperor of nam viet part of present day northern vietnam and china 111bc han chinese emperor wu conquered viet people began nearly 1 000 years of chinese rule in north 40ad two trung sisters led rebellion against chinese. In 111 bc the han dynasty from china absorbed vietnam into their empire.
Michel ray earned a b a. North vietnam takes control of south vietnam and establishes a unified country name of saigon changed to ho chi minh city after ho who died before country united. The history of vietnam can be traced back to around 4000 years ago.
Successive dynasties based in china ruled vietnam directly for most of the period from 207 bc until 938 when vietnam regained its independence vietnam remained a tributary state to its larger neighbor china for much of its history but repelled invasions by the chinese as well as three invasions by the mongols between 1255 and 1285. The vietnam war lasted about 40 years and involved several countries. Pre historic vietnam was home to some of the world s earliest civilizations and societies making them one of the world.
China regained rule.
