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Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · FRA LEFT · VNM RIGHT

1. 1858 CE

   French attack on Da Nang

   A French and Spanish naval force assaults Da Nang, beginning the military conquest that would bring Vietnam under colonial rule.

   War & Rupture · from the Vietnam chronicle · The Nguyen Dynasty and Expansion South · REFS 2 — Vietnam: A Country Study, Vietnam

2. 1862 CE

   France annexes Cochinchina

   Following the capture of Saigon, France secures the southern provinces of Cochinchina as a colony, its first permanent foothold in Vietnam.

   Colonisation · from the Vietnam chronicle · French Indochina · REFS 2 — Vietnam: A Country Study, Vietnam

3. 17 October 1887

   French Indochina established

   France unites Cochinchina, Annam, Tonkin, and Cambodia into the Indochinese Union; Laos is added in 1893, binding Vietnam into a colonial federation centered on Hanoi.

   Colonisation · from the Vietnam chronicle · French Indochina · REFS 1 — Vietnam: A Country Study

4. 1946-1954 CE

   First Indochina War

   War between France and the Viet Minh ends with the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu on 7 May 1954, terminating French colonial rule in Vietnam.

   War & Rupture · from the Vietnam chronicle · The Wars: Independence, Division, and Reunification · REFS 2 — First Indochina War, Dien Bien Phu and the Fall of French Indochina, 1954