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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 · KHM LEFT · VNM RIGHT

1. 1863 CE

   French protectorate established

   King Norodom signs a treaty placing Cambodia under French protection to fend off Siamese and Vietnamese pressure; Siam acknowledges the protectorate by 1867.

   Colonisation · from the Cambodia chronicle · Decline, Foreign Pressure, and the French Protectorate · REFS 2 — Norodom, Cambodia Gains Independence from France

2. 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

3. December 1978 - January 1979

   Vietnamese intervention ends the regime

   Vietnam invades Cambodia, captures Phnom Penh in January 1979, ousts the Khmer Rouge, and ends the genocide, beginning a decade-long occupation.

   War & Rupture · from the Cambodia chronicle · War, Revolution, and Genocide · REFS 2 — Cambodia: Vietnamese intervention, Cambodian genocide

4. 1979 CE

   Sino-Vietnamese War

   China invades northern Vietnam in response to Vietnam's ousting of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; the brief but bloody border war deepens Vietnam's isolation.

   War & Rupture · from the Vietnam chronicle · Doi Moi Reforms and Modern Vietnam · REFS 1 — Vietnam