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
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.
The Nguyễn dynasty was the last Vietnamese dynasty, preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 until the start of the French protectorate in 1883. Its emperors wer
Empire of Vietnam
…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 Nguyễn dynasty. The Empire was proclaimed when Emperor Bảo Đại declared independence for Vietnam (Tonkin and Annam) from French protection. At the end of its existence…
The cover of Tân Dân Tử's (1875–1955) 1930 book, Gia Long tẩu quốc, depicted the exile of Nguyễn Ánh.
Nguyễn Ánh (sitting, 2nd row) in audience with King Rama I in Phra Thinang Amarin Winitchai throne hall, Bangkok, 1782.
Signatures on the 1787 Treaty of Versailles
Pigneau de Behaine, the French priest who recruited armies for Nguyễn Ánh during Ánh's war against the Tây Sơn