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The Empire's borders span from modern Kyrgyzstan in the west, to Mongolia in the north, to Korea in the east, and to northern Vietnam in the south.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1324423424#China", "title": "87 BC", "revid": 1324423424, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 40, "year_label": "40 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Vietnamese Trưng Sisters rebel against the rule of the Chinese Emperor Guang Wu of Han.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_40", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 40"}}, {"year": 43, "year_label": "43 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Vietnam is designated a province of China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_43", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 43"}}, {"year": 144, "year_label": "144 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In Vietnam during the second Era of Northern Domination, rebellion of Cham people broke out in Jiaozhi and Jiuzhen. The rebels then surrendered to the Jiaozhi's governor in the same year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299409108#Asia", "title": "AD 144", "revid": 1299409108, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 166, "year_label": "166 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "A Roman envoy arrives by sea in Rinan commandery, in southern China (central Vietnam). He travels to the Chinese capital Luoyang, and is greeted by Emperor Huan of the Han dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371302266#Asia", "title": "AD 166", "revid": 1371302266, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 192, "year_label": "192 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The kingdom of Champa begins to control south and central Vietnam (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310282#Vietnam", "title": "AD 192", "revid": 1371310282, "section": "Events › By place › Vietnam"}}, {"year": 229, "year_label": "229 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Eastern Wu merchants reach Vietnam; ocean transport is improved to such an extent that sea journeys are made to the Liaodong Peninsula and the island of Yizhou.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1281566383#China", "title": "229", "revid": 1281566383, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 499, "year_label": "499 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ly Thien Bao, emperor of Vietnam (d. 555)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367503464#Births", "title": "499", "revid": 1367503464, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 529, "year_label": "529 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Rudravarman is granted investiture by China, as the first king of the fourth dynasty of Champa (modern Vietnam).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351343002#Southeast_Asia", "title": "529", "revid": 1351343002, "section": "Events › By place › Southeast Asia"}}, {"year": 544, "year_label": "544 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February", "text": "February – Lý Bí is declared emperor and establishes the empire Van Xuân (modern Vietnam). His armies repel attacks from the kingdom of Champa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1317382475#Asia", "title": "544", "revid": 1317382475, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 548, "year_label": "548 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Emperor Lý Nam Đế of Vietnam is killed by Laotian tribesmen, while on retreat from the Hong River Plain. He is succeeded by his elder brother Lý Thiên Bảo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368141112#Asia", "title": "548", "revid": 1368141112, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 548, "year_label": "548 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Lý Nam Đế, emperor of Vietnam", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368141112#Deaths", "title": "548", "revid": 1368141112, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 555, "year_label": "555 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ly Thien Bao, emperor of Vietnam (b. 499)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356951195#Deaths", "title": "555", "revid": 1356951195, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 602, "year_label": "602 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Third Chinese domination of Vietnam: The Early Lý dynasty ends; Hậu Lý Nam Đế, last ruler of Vąn Xuân (North Vietnam), abdicates the throne and becomes a vassal of the Sui dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364904263#Asia", "title": "602", "revid": 1364904263, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 758, "year_label": "758 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "An Lushan Rebellion: The Chinese seaport of Guangzhou is sacked by Muslim and Persian raiders. The port is shut down for the next 5 decades, while foreign vessels dock at Hanoi (modern Vietnam) instead. Guangzhou thrives again, once it is reopened to foreign trade in the early 9th century.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654492#Asia", "title": "758", "revid": 1366654492, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 790, "year_label": "790 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Cambodia begins to break away from the Sumatra-based kingdom Srivijaya, as a 20-year-old Cambodian prince, who claims descent from the rulers of Funan, is consecrated in eastern Cambodia with the title Jayavarman II. In the next 10 years he will extend his powers north into the Mekong Valley (modern Vietnam).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848291#Asia", "title": "790", "revid": 1340848291, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 875, "year_label": "875 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "King Jayavarman III founds a new dynasty at Indrapura (Quảng Nam) in Champa, in the central region of modern-day Vietnam. He initiates a building program in the Dong Duong Style.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352180718#Asia", "title": "875", "revid": 1352180718, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 905, "year_label": "905 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "China loses control over Annam (Northern Vietnam). The village notable Khuc Thua Du leads a rebellion against the Tang Dynasty. The Chinese garrison at Tong Binh (modern Hanoi) is destroyed. Khuc Thua Du declares Annam autonomous.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350019271#Asia", "title": "905", "revid": 1350019271, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 938, "year_label": "938 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Bach Dang: Tĩnh Hải Quân forces under the rule of Ngô Quyền defeated an invading force of the Southern Han state at the Bach Dang River. This put an end to Chinese imperial domination in Vietnam after nearly 1,000 years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468181#Asia", "title": "938", "revid": 1364468181, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 939, "year_label": "939 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ngô Quyền, who the previous year defeated the Chinese at the Battle of Bạch Đằng (938) thereby regaining Vietnamese independence after 1000 years, becomes king of Vietnam.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656722#Asia", "title": "939", "revid": 1366656722, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 941, "year_label": "941 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Lê Hoàn, emperor of the Early Lê Dynasty (Vietnam) (d.1005)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512041#Births", "title": "941", "revid": 1341512041, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1001, "year_label": "1001 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In Vietnam during the Early Lê dynasty, a rebellion broke out in Cử Long in Thanh Hóa province against king Lê Đại Hành. Former emperor Đinh Phế Đế, who was a general under Đại Hành's reign, died in the battle while suppressing that rebellion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341910152#Asia", "title": "1001", "revid": 1341910152, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1005, "year_label": "1005 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lê Trung Tông succeeds his father Lê Hoàn as emperor of the early Lê dynasty (modern Vietnam), preceding anarchy and 8 months succession war with other princes. Lê Ngoạ Triều succeeded his brother Lê Trung Tông, by assassinating him after just a 3 day reign.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341910116#Asia", "title": "1005", "revid": 1341910116, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1009, "year_label": "1009 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "21st November – The Lý Dynasty in Vietnam is proclaimed by Emperor Lý Thái Tổ (former commander of the palace guard) after the death of Lê Long Đĩnh, the last monarch of the Lê Dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341910037#Asia", "title": "1009", "revid": 1341910037, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1054, "year_label": "1054 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lý Nhật Tôn, third king of the Lý Dynasty, begins to rule in Vietnam, and changes the country's official name to Đại Việt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267065294#Asia", "title": "1054", "revid": 1267065294, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1069, "year_label": "1069 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Nam tiến, the southward expansion of the territory of Đại Việt (modern Vietnam), begins when a Lý dynasty army attacks Champa, capturing King Rudravarman III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243049384#Asia", "title": "1069", "revid": 1243049384, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1070, "year_label": "1070 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Temple of Literature, Hanoi, is established in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327891061#Events", "title": "1070", "revid": 1327891061, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1075, "year_label": "1075 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Vietnamese forces under General Lý Thường Kiệt defend Vietnam against a Chinese invasion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365265849#Asia", "title": "1075", "revid": 1365265849, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1218, "year_label": "1218 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Lý Chiêu Hoàng, empress of Vietnam (d. 1278)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347207200#Births", "title": "1218", "revid": 1347207200, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1226, "year_label": "1226 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 – Trần Thủ Độ, head of the Trần dynasty of Vietnam, forces Lý Huệ Tông, the last emperor of the Lý dynasty, to commit suicide.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372695704#October_–_December", "title": "1226", "revid": 1372695704, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1241, "year_label": "1241 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Lizong of Song China accepts the Neo-Confucian teachings of the late Zhu Xi, including his commentary on the Four Books. This will have an impact upon the philosophical schools of surrounding countries as well, including Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362486166#Events", "title": "1241", "revid": 1362486166, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1257, "year_label": "1257 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Mongol forces under Uriyangkhadai conduct a campaign against local Yi and Lolo tribes in Vietnam. He returns to Gansu and sends messengers to the court of Möngke Khan informing him that Yunnan is firmly under Mongolian control. Möngke Khan honors and rewards Uriyangkhadai for his military achievements.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350011805#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1257", "revid": 1350011805, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1258, "year_label": "1258 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Mongol forces (some 30,000 men) under Uriyangkhadai, son of Subutai, invade Vietnam. After many battles, the Vietnam army is routed and defeated. The senior leaders are able to escape on prepared boats, while the remnants are destroyed on the banks of the Red River. The Mongols occupy the capital city, Thăng Long (modern-day Hanoi), and massacres the city's inhabitants, by the end of January.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318120479#Asia", "title": "1258", "revid": 1318120479, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1283, "year_label": "1283 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 13", "text": "February 13–14 – Battle of Thị Nại Bay: A Mongol-led Yuan expeditionary force (some 5,000 men) lands on the beach, near Champa's capital Vijaya in Vietnam. Despite being outnumbered, the Yuan invaders break the Cham defensive line and force King Indravarman V to retreat to the Western Highlands, where he wages a successful guerrilla campaign against the occupying Yuan forces.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347549431#Asia", "title": "1283", "revid": 1347549431, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1288, "year_label": "1288 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – Battle of Bạch Đằng: Đại Việt (Vietnamese) general Trần Hưng Đạo sinks the fleet of an invading Mongol-led Yuan expeditionary army (some 94,000 men). He orders the placing of steel-tipped bamboo stakes (to create an ambush) in the Bach Dang River near Ha Long Bay. This ends the intentions of Kublai Khan to conquer Vietnam and Champa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367964096#Asia", "title": "1288", "revid": 1367964096, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1292, "year_label": "1292 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Kublai Khan sends a Mongol expeditionary force (some 20,000 men) to Java. He collects an invasion fleet with some 500–1,000 ships and enough provisions for a year from Fujian, Jiangxi and Huguang in southern China. The fleet travels past Champa (modern Vietnam) and the Karimata Islands. The Mongols land on Java, taking the capital of Kediri, but it proves impossible to hold.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358845029#Asia", "title": "1292", "revid": 1358845029, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1313, "year_label": "1313 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Tran Anh Tong, emperor of Annam (Northern Vietnam), occupies Champa (Southern Vietnam) and establishes the Cham royal dynasty as puppet rulers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361694602#Asia", "title": "1313", "revid": 1361694602, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1370, "year_label": "1370 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – Trần Nghệ Tông deposes Dương Nhật Lễ as emperor of Đại Việt, modern-day Vietnam.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370872148#October–December", "title": "1370", "revid": 1370872148, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1372, "year_label": "1372 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 9", "text": "November 9 – Trần Duệ Tông succeeds his brother Trần Nghệ Tông as King of Vietnam.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370079239#October–December", "title": "1372", "revid": 1370079239, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1374, "year_label": "1374 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "February", "text": "February – In what is now Hanoi in Vietnam, the Emperor Trần Duệ Tông of Đại Việt issues decrees establishing an imperial examination for civil servants.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369753981#January–March", "title": "1374", "revid": 1369753981, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1377, "year_label": "1377 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January", "text": "January – On the 24th day of the first lunar month of the year Dinh Ty, Tran Due Tong, Emperor of Đại Việt (Vietnam), is killed in the Battle of Đồ Bàn.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368383535#January–March", "title": "1377", "revid": 1368383535, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1390, "year_label": "1390 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – Ko Cheng succeeds Che Bong Nga, as King of Champa (now eastern Vietnam).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371631980#January–March", "title": "1390", "revid": 1371631980, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1398, "year_label": "1398 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – Trần Thuận Tông is forced to abdicate as ruler of the Trần dynasty in modern-day Vietnam, in favour of his three-year-old son Trần Thiếu Đế.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370372737#January–March", "title": "1398", "revid": 1370372737, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1400, "year_label": "1400 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 23", "text": "March 23 – Five-year-old Trần Thiếu Đế is forced to abdicate as ruler of Đại Việt (modern-day Vietnam), in favour of his maternal grandfather and court official Hồ Quý Ly, ending the Trần dynasty after 175 years and starting the Hồ dynasty. Hồ Quý Ly subsequently changes the country's name to Đại Ngu.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369029011#January–March", "title": "1400", "revid": 1369029011, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1401, "year_label": "1401 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 12", "text": "January 12 – Emperor Hồ Quý Ly of Dai Ngu (now Vietnam) passes the throne to his son, Hồ Hán Thương.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347806355#January–March", "title": "1401", "revid": 1347806355, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1406, "year_label": "1406 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – Tran Thien Binh, pretender to the throne of Vietnam (at the time, Dai Ngu) arrives from China, accompanied by an emissary from China, at the invitation of the Emperor Hồ Hán Thương. After crossing into Lang Son, Tran Thien Binh and the Chinese ambassador are killed by King Ho Han Thuong's troops, triggering a war with China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357536622#April–June", "title": "1406", "revid": 1357536622, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1407, "year_label": "1407 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 20", "text": "January 20 – Ming–Việt War: China conquers Dong Do, the eastern capital of Dai Ngu (now Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, and follows six days later by conquering the western capital, Tay Do (now Thanh Hóa) on January 26.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367230756#January–March", "title": "1407", "revid": 1367230756, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1428, "year_label": "1428 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lam Sơn uprising: Lê Lợi, founder of the Lê dynasty in Vietnam, liberates Annam (the territory occupied by Ming dynasty China in 1407) and restores the kingdom as Đại Việt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359832254#Date_unknown", "title": "1428", "revid": 1359832254, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1471, "year_label": "1471 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 24", "text": "February 24 – In what is now south Vietnam, the Champa–Dai Viet War begins when the Dai Viet Emperor Lê Thánh Tông sends 500 warships to block the Champa Kingdom's Bay of Sa Ky, while another 30,000 troops block all entrances to the capital city of Vijaya at what is now the Quảng Ngãi Province. 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Le Tuong Duc's 12-year-old nephew, Le Chieu Tong, is installed as the new Emperor by the conspirators.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368315851#April–June", "title": "1516", "revid": 1368315851, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1545, "year_label": "1545 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 20", "text": "May 20 – In Vietnam, warlord Nguyễn Kim of the Lê dynasty leads troops toward an attack on Ninh Binh when he is invited by Dương Chấp Nhất of the Mạc dynasty to dinner. 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It will become the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372706275#May", "title": "1941", "revid": 1372706275, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August", "text": "Vietnam's capital Hanoi is taken by the Viet Minh, which ends the French occupation in what becomes North Vietnam, and thus the southern provinces become South Vietnam. 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