The abdication of Bảo Đại took place on 25 August 1945, in response to the August Revolution. It marked the end of the 143-year reign of the Nguyễn dynasty, a dynasty under the House of Nguyễn Phúc, a
Abdication statement of Bảo Đại, signed 25 August 1945
A photograph taken during the abdication ceremony
Procès-verbal for the recovery of the items the Bảo Đại Emperor gave to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during his abdication ceremony (1952)
The National assembly of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on 2 March 1946. Supreme advisor Vĩnh Thụy is located immediately to the left of President Ho Chi Minh.
The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived sponsored state of Imperial Japan between March 11 and August 30, 1945. It was a member of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and was ruled by the Nguyễ
Abdication of Bảo Đại
…dynasty, a dynasty under the House of Nguyễn Phúc, and marked the end of the Vietnamese monarchy. The fall of the Nguyễn dynasty led to the end of the Empire of Vietnam cabinet of Prime Minister Trần Trọng Kim, a Japanese puppet government. A public abdication ceremony was held on 30 August 1945, in which Emperor Bảo…
Announcement of the independence of the Empire of Vietnam, reported on Sài Gòn newspaper.
Trotskyist League demonstration in Saigon, 21 August 1945.
Trần Trọng Kim as new prime minister of the Empire of Vietnam. Photograph by Domei.
Commemoration of the Yên Bái Uprising in a weekly newspaper, Hanoi June 1945.