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WESTERN INFLUENCES AFFECT THE NGUYEN DYNASTY | |||||||||
1842 |
The Opium Wars give Europeans control over China through
a series of unequal treaties; including the Treaty of Nanking.
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1845 |
USS Constitution lands in Da Nang. A company of US Marines
moves overland to Hue and recues a French Bishop who had been captured
by the Vietnamese. America's first combat involvement in Vietnam; 120
years later two battalions of US Marines will return to Vietnam via Da
Nang.
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1847 |
French vessels bombard Da Nang in response to persecution
of Catholic missionaries.
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2 Sep 1858 |
Authorized by Napoleon III to launch a naval expedition
to punish the Vietnamese and force them to accept a French protectorate,
French and Spanish forces seized Da Nang (in their second attack) after
several missionaries had been killed.
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17 Feb 1859 |
French forces capture Saigon.
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1861 |
Military resistance begins against the French. French
gain control of Gia Dinh.
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Feb. 1861 |
The French defeat the Vietnamese army and gain control
of Gia Dinh and surrounding provinces.
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TREATY OF SAIGON 1862 AND FRENCH COLONIZATION | |||||||||
June 5, 1862 |
The Treaty of Saigon ceded three southern provinces (Bien
Hoa, Gia Dinh, and Dinh Tuong in the Mekong Delta) to the French.
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1867 |
France had conquered all of southern Vietnam, which became
the French colony of Cochin China.
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1883 |
French troops move to northern Vietnam to expand control
of Indochina. The Chinese also lay claim to Vietnam, and oppose the French
move prompting the Sino-French War over Indochina .
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1884 |
Annam and Tonkin become French Protectorates.
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1885 |
France wins the Sino-French War, and completes French
control over Vietnam and other Indochina domains.
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1887 |
Cambodia joins the French holdings in Vietnam to form
French Indochina (the Indochina Union).
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1893 |
Laos is added to French Indochina.
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