-Dai Viet History

Vietnam is long, narrow S-shaped strip of land. It lies in the centre of Southeast Asia on the eastern part of the Indochinese peninsula, facing the East Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The coastline stretches 3,260km, and the continental shelf border line 3,700km. Vietnam shares its border with China, Laos, Cambodia. Its near neighbours include Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei. Population: More than 70 million Area: 329,600 Km2 Capital: HANOI Continental shelf: 700,000 Km2 Coordinates on land: 102o10' - 109o30' East Longitude 8o30' - 23o22' North Latitude

Date Events/ click each events to get the imformation
3000 B.C Lac long quan / Au Co
2879 B.C Legendary founding of the Van Lang Kingdom by the first Hung Vuong.
2879-258 B.C. Hung Dynasty
257-208 B.C. Thuc Dynasty
207-111 B.C. Trieu Dynasty
1800-1400 B.C.

Phung Nguyen Culture (Early Bronze Age)
850-300 B.C. Dong Son Culture (Late Bronze Age)
210 B.C. Kingdom of Au Lac established.
207 B.C. Chinese general Chao Tuo (Trieu Da) founds Nan Yueh (Nam Viet)
111 B.C. Nan Yeh conquered by Han.
A.D. 39 Trung sisters lead a rebllion against Chinese rule.
43 Trung Sister's rebllion crushed by Chinese general Ma Yuan, and Viet People placed under direc Chinese administration for the first time.
542-544 Ly Bi leads uprising against China's Liang Dynasty and establishes the independent kingdom of Van Xuan.
544-602 Early Ly Dynasty
938

Ngo Quyen defeats a Chinese invading force at the first battle of the Bach Dang River.
939-968 Ngo Dynasty
939-44 Ngo Quyen rules independent Nam Viet.
968-980 Dinh Dynasty
970-975 Dinh Bo Linh gains Chinese recognition of Nam Viet's idependece by establishing a tributary relationship with China's Song Dynasty.
980-1009 Early Le Dynasty
981 Le Hoan defeats a Chinese invasion.
982 Viet armies invade Champa and destroy its capital, Indrapura.
1009-1225 Ly Dynasty
1075 Minor officials chosen by examination for the first time.
1225-1400 Tran Dynasty
1257-58 Mongols attack Dai Viet and are defeated.
1284-85 Second Mongol invasion and defeat. Resistance led by Tran Hung Dao.
1287 Third Mongol invasion repelled.
1360-90 Champa wars. Champa ruled by Che bong Nga.
1400-1407 Ho Dynasty
1407-27 Chinese invasion and occupation
1428 Le Loi's armies defeat the Chinese.
1428-1527 Le Dynasty
1428 Le Loi proclaims himself emperor. The country once again named Dai Viet.
1471 Champa capital of Vijaya falls, ending the Champa kingdom.
1483 Dong Duc legal code promulgated.
1527-92 Mac Dynasty. Mac rulers control Thang Long and the Red River Delta.
1558-1772 Period of opposition between the Trinh and Nguyen clans
1627 Alexander de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary, arrives in Hanoi.
1771 Tay Son Rebellion
1778 Most of Nguyn clan annihilated by the Tay Son.
1787 French missionary Pigneau de Behaine persuades Frech cour to assist in restoration of the Nguyen
1788 Last Le emperor flees to China. Nguyen Hue proclaims himseflf emperor.
1789 Chinese invasion in support of the Le defeated.
1802 The Nguyen defeat last of Tay Son forces. Nguyen And accedes to throne as Gia Long and established his capital at Hue.
1802-1945 Nguyen Dynasty
1820 Death of Gia Long. Succeeded by his highly sinicized son, Minh Mang.
1847 French vessels bombard Da Nang.
September 1858 French forces seize Da Nang.
February 1859 French forces capture Saigon.
February1861 The French defeat the Vietnamese army and gain control of Gia Dinh and surrounding provinces.
June 5, 1862 Treaty of Saigon, which ceded tree southern provinces-Bien hoa, Gia Dinh, and Dinh Tuong-to the French.
1863 Admiral la Grandiere imposes French protectorate on Cambodia.
March 1874 A Franco-Vietnamese treaty confirms French soverignty over Cochinchina and opens the Red River to trade.
August 1883 Treaty of Protectorate, signed at the Harmond Convention, establishes French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
June 1884 Treaty of Hue confirms the Harmond convention agreement.
1885 Can Vuong movement, calling upon the Vietnamese to drive out the French, established.
1887 Indochinese Union formally established.
May 19,1890 Ho Chi Minh's birth
1897-1902 Paul Doumer is Governor-General.
1904 Phan Boi Chau founds Viet Nam Duy Tan Hoi.
October 1991 Ho Chi Minh departs Vietnam for Europe.
1912 Phan Boi Chau founds Viet Nam Quang Phu Hoi.( Vietnamese Restoration Sociey), replaing Duy Tan Hoi.
1919 Nguyen Ai Quoc( Ho Chi Minh) attempts to meet with Presiden Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles Peace Conference to present a program for Vietnamese rights and soverignty, but is turned away.
1920 Ho Chi Minh participates in founding of the French Comunist Party.
1923 Ho Chi Minh's first visit to Moscow
June-July 1924 Ho Chi Minh attends Fifthy Comintern Congress.
1925 Viet Nam Thanh Nien Cach Menh Dong Chi Hoi ( Revolutionary Youth League) formed in Guangzhou under Ho Chi Minh's leadership.
1926 Ho Chi Minh forms Thanh Nien Cong San Doan ( Communist Youth League) with the larger Thanh Nien organization.
1927 Nguyen Thai Hoc founds the Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang (VNQDD, Vietnam Nationalish Party)
February 1930 Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP, Viet Nam Cong San Dang) founded in Hong Kong (name changed to Indochinese Communist Party, Dong Duong Cong San Dang, in October).
September 1939 World War II begins.
August 1940

Franco-Japanese treaty, recognizing Japan's pre-eminence in Indochina in return for nominal recognition of French sovereignty, signed.
February 1941 Ho Chi Minh returns to Vietnamese.
May 1941 ICP Eight Plenum at Pac Bo establishes the Viet Minh (Vietnam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi, or League for the Independence of Vietnam).
1944-43 Ho Chi Minh imprisoned in China.
1944-45 Famine in Tonkin and Annam causes between 1.5 and 2 million deaths.
August 1945 Japan surrenders anh the Viet Minh commences the August Revolution, gaining effective control over much of Vietnamese.
September 1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam's independnce in Hanoi
1946 Ho Chi Minh visits Paris during negotiations with France; hostilities begin following violation of agreements.
1946-54 First Indochina War
1951 Dang Lao Dong Viet Nam is founded, succeeding the indochinese Communist Party.
May 7, 1954 French surrender at Dien Bien Phu
May 8, 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina opens.
July 21, 1954 Geneva Agreements adopted, Vietnam provisionnally divided at the 17th paralled, and Nog Dinh Diem appointed South Vietnam's premier by Emperor Bao Dai.
January 1, 1955 Direct United States aid to South Vietnamese begins.
February 12, 1955 United States advisers begin training South Vietnamese army troops.
October 26, 1955 Republic of Vietnam established with Diem its first president.
December 20, 1960 The National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam formed in the South under the direction of te Political Bureau.
December 31, 1961 United States military personnel in Vietnam total about 3,200.
February 8, 1962 United States Military Assistance Command Vietnam formed under the command of General Paul D. Harkins.
November 1-2, 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem overthrown and assassinated.
August 7, 1964 United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president of the United States to use force in Vietnam to repel attacks on American installations.
February 7, 1965 United States begins bombing military targets in North Vietnam.
March 9, 1965 First United States ground combat troops land in Vietnam at Da Nang.
December 31, 1965 United States military personnel in Vietnam total 180,000
January 30-31, 1968 Tet Offensive, employing coordinated attacks on the South's major cities by North Vietnmese and National Liberation Front troops, fails to achieve its military objectives but erodes Amerrican support for the war.
January 25, 1969 Four party peace talks open in Paris.
May 14, 2969 United States troop strength in Vietnam peaks at 543,000.
June 10, 1969 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam formed.
September 3, 1969 Ho Chi Miinh's death
April 28, 1970 Jint United States Army of the Republic of Vietnam force attacks Vietnamese communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
March 24, 1971 Operation Lam Son 719, a South Vietnamese attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, ends in defeats.
March 30, 1972 People's Army of Vietnam troops launch the largest offensive to the war since 1968.
January 27, 1973 Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam signed in Paris.
March 29, 1973 Last United States troops inn Vietnam depart.
March 9, 1975 PAWN offensive in the South begins.
April 30, 1975 Saigon surrenders.