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7 unusual facts about Nguyễn Dynasty


1883 in France

25 August - Treaty of Hué signed between Nguyễn Dynasty Emperor of Viet Nam and the French Empire, recognizing French imperial control over the regions of Annam and Tonkin.

Bach Xuan Nguyen

Bạch Xuân Nguyên (, died 1833) was an official of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam.

Học phi Nguyễn Thị Hương

Học phi Nguyễn Thị Hương was a wife of Emperor Tự Đức of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam.

Phan Bá Vành

Phan Bá Vành (, died March 12, 1827), a native of Minh Giám village (now Vũ Tiên, Thái Bình Province in coastal northern Vietnam), was the charismatic leader of one of Vietnam's largest peasant uprisings against the Emperor Minh Mạng, the second emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty.

Phong Điền District

The district was the homeland of Nguyễn Tri Phương, the general who commanded the Nguyễn Dynasty's army in the 1850s and 1860s when the French began their colonisation of Indochina, and Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, the anti-colonial poet.

Quảng Trị

It is an example of Vauban architecture and it later became the administrative head office of the Nguyễn Dynasty in Quảng Trị Province (1809 -1945).

Vĩnh Linh District

In 1831, the Nguyễn Dynasty established Quảng Trị Province, and made Vinh Linh tha administrative headquarters.


Artillery of the Nguyen Lords

The artillery of the Nguyễn lords, the family that ruled southern Vietnam from the late 16th to the late 18th centuries, and the precursor of the Nguyễn Dynasty, was an important component of their military success in repelling attacks from the rival Trịnh lords, their northern contemporaries.

Cochinchina

Gia Long's successors (see the Nguyễn Dynasty for details) repelled the Siamese from Cambodia and even annexed Phnom Penh and surrounding territory in the war of 1831 to 1834, but were forced to relinquish these conquests in the war of 1841 to 1845.

Vietnamese encyclopedias

Lịch triều hiến chương loại chí (Regulations of Successive Dynasties by Subject-Matter), a hand-written encyclopedic work by Nguyễn Dynasty Confucianist scholar Phan Huy Ích.


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Bà Chúa Xứ

Another opinion holds that she was a Thai rebel who assisted the Nguyen dynasty emperor, Gia Long, defeat Tay Son rebels who overthrew him in the eighteenth century.