LaosandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
4 SHARED EVENTSThailand

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 · LAO LEFT · THA RIGHT

1. later 18th century

   The Lao kingdoms become Siamese vassals

   Divided and weakened, the rulers of Luang Prabang, Vientiane, and Champasak each fall under a Siamese commissioner and must pay tribute to Bangkok.

   War & Rupture · from the Laos chronicle · Three Kingdoms and Siamese Vassalage · REFS 2 — Lan Xang, Laos: History

2. 1828 CE

   Siam destroys Vientiane

   After King Anouvong's failed revolt against Bangkok, Siamese forces sack and raze Vientiane and deport its people, ending the kingdom of Vientiane.

   War & Rupture · from the Laos chronicle · Three Kingdoms and Siamese Vassalage · REFS 2 — Vientiane, Laos: History

3. 1893

   Franco-Siamese crisis and loss of Laos

   After French gunboats threaten Bangkok, Siam cedes the Lao territories east of the Mekong to French Indochina, the heaviest of its frontier concessions.

   War & Rupture · from the Thailand chronicle · Siam's Survival: Mongkut, Chulalongkorn, and the Imperial Century · REFS 1 — Thailand

4. 1893 CE

   French protectorate established

   Following the Franco-Siamese crisis, Siam cedes the territory east of the Mekong and France makes the Lao states a protectorate within French Indochina, administered from Vientiane.

   Colonisation · from the Laos chronicle · The French Protectorate · REFS 2 — Auguste Pavie, Laos: Under foreign rule