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26 October 1955 – 2 November 1963: Vice President: Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ: Preceded by: Position established Bảo Đại as Chief of the State of Vietnam: Succeeded by: Dương Văn Minh (as Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council) Minister of National Defense of South Vietnam; In office 26 October 1955 – 2 November 1963: President ...
[9] [10] [11] The term Baiyue/Bách Việt first appeared in the book Lüshi Chunqiu compiled around 239 BC. [12] By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, educated Vietnamese called themselves and their people as người Việt and người Nam, which combined to become người Việt Nam (Vietnamese people). However, this designation was ...
French–Vietnamese relations started during the early 17th century with the arrival of the Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes.Around this time, Vietnam had only just begun its "Southward"—"Nam Tiến", the occupation of the Mekong Delta, a territory being part of the Khmer Empire and to a lesser extent, the kingdom of Champa which they had defeated in 1471.
The abdication of Bảo Đại (Vietnamese: Chiếu thoái vị của Hoàng Đế Bảo Đại) took place on 25 August 1945 and marked the end of the 143-year reign of the Nguyễn dynasty over Vietnam ending the Vietnamese monarchy.