Side by side
France and Vietnam compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
10 August 843 — The Treaty of Verdun gives Charles the Bald West Francia
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- 2026-08-10
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Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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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.
- 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 · French Indochina / Conquest of Vietnam, Vietnam
- 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 · French Indochina / Conquest of Vietnam, Vietnam
- 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 · French Indochina / Conquest of Vietnam
- 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 · First Indochina War, Dien Bien Phu and the Fall of French Indochina, 1954