Tây Sơn wars
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The Tây Sơn wars or Tây Sơn rebellion, often known as the Vietnamese civil war of 1771–1802, were a series of military conflicts that followed the Vietnamese peasant uprising at Tây Sơn that were led
A view of Đông Kinh (Hanoi) from the Red River in 1685
Emperor Lê Hy Tông gives an audience
Vietnamese communal temple đình in Huế
Phát Diệm Cathedral in Ninh Bình, north Vietnam. By the 18th century, there were more than 300,000 Catholic Christians in Vietnam.
French assistance to Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, a Nguyễn lord and the future founding emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, covered a period from 1777 to 1820. From 1777, Mgr Pigneau de Behaine, of the Paris Foreign M
Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau (in mixed Franco-Vietnamese uniform) was an important actor of the first French intervention in Vietnam.
Mgr Pigneau de Behaine was the main instigator of the French intervention in Vietnam from 1777 to 1824.
Pigneau de Behaine and Nguyễn Ánh fled together to the island of Phu Quoc.
Louis XVI gave his agreement to the 1787 Treaty of Versailles with Vietnam.