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Name: laos

Type: Cluster

Start: 1945 AD

End: 2022 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Laos (Japan)
  • Kingdom of Laos
  • Laos People's Democratic Republic
  • Establishment


  • April 1945: The staunchly pro-French King Sisavang Vong was imprisoned and forced by the Japanese, and at much urging from Prince Phetsarath, into declaring the French protectorate over his kingdom over while accepting the nation into the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere on 8 April 1945.
  • May 1945: The French entered the Laotian capital of Vientiane towards the end of April 1946, freeing French prisoners with a French-Lao force supported by Prince Boun Oum of Champasak.
  • June 1945: By May the French had reached Luang Prabang and the Lao Issara fled in exile to Thailand.
  • Chronology


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    1. Century of humiliation


    A period (1839-1949) of foregin interventions in China resulting in the occupation, conquest or lease of large territories by foregin countries.

    1.1.Sino-Japanese Wars

    Were two major wars between China and Japan in the XIX and XX centuries.

    1.1.1.Second Sino-Japanese War

    Was a military conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War.

    1.1.1.1.Japanese invasion of French Indochina

    Was the Japanese invasion and occupation of French Indochina.

    1.1.1.1.1.Japanese coup d'etat

    Was the creation of the Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan during World War II.


    1.1.1.1.2.French reconquest of Laos

    Was the French reconquest of Laos from Japanese occupation at the end of World War II.


    2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • November 1953: The Kingdom of Laos was established in 1953 after gaining independence from French colonial rule. King Sisavang Vong became the constitutional monarch, with Prince Souvanna Phouma as Prime Minister. Laos remained a constitutional monarchy until the communist takeover in 1975.

  • December 1975: The Pathet Lao would eventually emerge victorious in the Laotian Civil War and establish the Lao People's Democratic Republic in 1975.

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