History
Periods, events and the people behind the places.
Event (1)
Period (7)
A thousand years of Chinese ruleBắc thuộc
Vietnam's millennium under Chinese imperial rule, from 111 BC to AD 938, and the uprisings…
Period
French IndochinaĐông Dương thuộc Pháp
The French colonial federation (1887–1954) that reshaped Vietnam's cities, economy and…
Period
Le Loi and the Le dynastyNhà Lê
Vietnam's longest imperial dynasty, 1428–1789, founded after expelling Ming China and later…
Period
Reunification and Doi MoiĐổi Mới
From reunification in 1976 through the hardships of the subsidy era to the Đổi Mới reforms…
Period
The Ly dynastyNhà Lý
Vietnam's first long-stable dynasty (1009–1225), which founded Hanoi, built the Temple of…
Period
The Nguyen dynastyNhà Nguyễn
Vietnam's final imperial dynasty, ruling from Hue between 1802 and 1945, when Emperor Bao…
Period
The Tran dynasty and the Mongol warsNhà Trần
The Vietnamese dynasty that repelled three Mongol invasions between 1258 and 1288, leaving…
Person (4)
Person
Ho Chi MinhHồ Chí Minh
Revolutionary leader, founder of the Viet Minh, and president of the Democratic Republic of…
Person
The Trung SistersHai Bà Trưng
Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị led Vietnam's first recorded rebellion against Han rule in AD 40…
Person
Tran Hung DaoTrần Hưng Đạo
Thirteenth-century general who repelled three Mongol invasions and remains a revered…
Person
Vo Nguyen GiapVõ Nguyên Giáp
General who led Vietnam at Dien Bien Phu and through the American War, buried in his home…
Picture credits (12)
Ngo Mon Gate for entry to the Imperial Citadel, Hue (31654316702), shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons · OSS ( Office of Strategic Services ), US Army personnel., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons · Tobacco tax stamps - French Indochina (1920's) eddis.h 01, The government-general of French Indo-China., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons · Picture of giving lecture, Doc Loi temple, Nghe An province, late 18th century, Do (poonah) paper - Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts -…, Daderot, CC0, Wikimedia Commons · Palacio de la Reunificación, Ciudad Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 2013-08-14, DD 06, Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · Ly Dynasty Ceramics (9980570325), Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, Wikimedia Commons · Nguyen Dynasty Forbidden City The Nine Cannons (15436867222), Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, Wikimedia Commons · Tran-Ho Dynasty, 14th-15th Century, Brick (9735706919), Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, Wikimedia Commons · Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh) as the Indochinese delegate at the French Communist congress in Marseille, December 1921, Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons · On a sunny day in Saigon, national heroines of Viet Nam are honored with a parade of elephants and floats, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons · Tran Hung Dao statue, vi:User:Nguyễn Thanh Quang, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons · Family of General Võ Nguyên Giáp, Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons