Vietnam: Political History and Notable Figures

14 CE - 43 CE - Trung Sisters: Trung Trac and Trung Nhu (All Facts)

• Sisters who led their namesake revolt against Emperor Guangwu of Han of China

• They are considered nationalist heroines

• However, their revolt failed because they were unable to gain the support of the Vietnamese peasantry, who looked to China for protection against wealthy Vietnamese landowners at the time, like Thi Sach, one of namesake sisters’ husbands

40’s CE - Thi Sach (All Facts)

• Wealthy landowner in Vietnam at the time

• Husband of Trung Trac

• His murder triggered Trung Trac and her sister Trung Nhu to rebel against Emperor Guangwu of Han China in the infamous Trung Sisters’ Rebellion

192 - 1832 - Champa Kingdom (All Facts)

939 - Vietnam (All Facts)

• Vietnamese lord Ngô Quyền defeated the forces of the Chinese Southern Han state at Bạch Đằng River and achieved full independence for the namesake entity after a millennium of Chinese domination

968 - 1804 - Dai Vet (All Facts)

• Vietnamese monarchy in eastern Mainland Southeast Asia from centered around the region of present-day Hanoi and founded by Dinh Bo Linh and the Dinh Dynasty

968 - 979 - Dinh Dynasty (All Facts)

• First and Founding Dynasty of Dai Vet

968 - 979 - Dinh Bo Linh (All Facts)

• First emperor and founder of Dai Vet (Independent northern Vietnam) and his namesake dynasty, the first dynasty of Vietnam independent from China since the Trung Sisters and after declaring its independence from the Chinese Southern Han dynasty

• He was a significant figure in the establishment of Vietnamese independence and political unity, having unified Vietnam by defeating rebellious warlords and becoming its emperor, a title which he adopted called “Dai Vet”

980 - 1009 - First Le Dynasty (All Facts)

• 2nd Dynasty of Dai Vet

• After the arrest of a Vietnamese envoy in the Kingdom of Champa, a punitive expedition is directed by rulers of this dynasty, which destroyed the Champa capital