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Name: Later Lê Dynasty

Type: Polity

Start: 1428 AD

End: 1789 AD

Nation: vietnam

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Was a dynasty that ruled over Vietnam after ending the Chinese domination and resuming independent Vietnam.

Establishment


  • January 1428: The fourth Chinese occupation of Vietnam was eventually ended with the reestablishment of Đại Việt under the new House of Lê.
  • Chronology


    Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation

    1. Siamese-Vietnamese War


    Were a series of armed conflicts between the Siamese Ayutthaya Kingdom and Rattanakosin Kingdom and the various dynasties of Vietnam mainly during the 18th and 19th centuries.

    1.1.Siamese-Vietnamese War (1785)

    Was a war that started with the first Siamese invasion of Southern Vietnam.

  • November 1784: By the end of 1784, the Siamese had taken Rạch Giá, Trấn Giang, Ba Thắc, Trà Ôn, Sa Đéc, Mân Thít, and controlled Hà Tiên, An Giang and Vĩnh Long.
  • January 1785: Siam launched an invasion again and occupied part of the Cuu Long Delta, but was defeated by Nguyen Hue in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.

  • 2. Ten Great Campaigns


    Were a series of military campaigns launched by the Qing dynasty of China in the mid-late 18th century during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.

    2.1.Chinese Invasion of Vietnam

    Was an unsuccesful invasion of Vietnam by Qing China.

  • December 1788: The Chinese defeated the Tây Sơn army in Lạng Sơn.
  • December 1788: Thăng Long was the capital of the Đại Việt kingdom, ruled by Emperor Lê Chiêu Thống. The Chinese army was led by General Sun Shiyi, who invaded the territory as part of the Qing Dynasty's expansionist policies in Southeast Asia. The occupation of Thăng Long marked a significant turning point in the region's history.
  • February 1789: Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa: Qing withdrawal from Vietnam.
  • February 1789: The Lê dynasty officially ended in 1789, when the peasant uprising of the Tây Sơn brothers defeated both the Trịnh and the Nguyễn, ironically in order to restore power to the Lê dynasty.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1472: In the Cham-Vietnamese War (AD 1471), Champa suffered serious defeats at the hands of the Vietnamese, in which 120,000 people were either captured or killed, and the kingdom was reduced to a small enclave near Nha Trang.

  • January 1654: Kauthara was annexed by the Vietnamese in 1653.

  • January 1701: In 1698, Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh, a Vietnamese noble, was sent by the Nguyễn rulers of Huế by sea to establish Vietnamese administrative structures in the area, thus detaching the area from Cambodia, which was not strong enough to intervene.

  • January 1706: In 1705 the garrison and settlement were destroyed.

  • January 1788: In 1787, through the Treaty of Versailles, Nguyễn Ánh (the future Emperor Gia Long) promised to cede Poulo Condor to the French.

  • Disestablishment


  • February 1789: Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa: Qing withdrawal from Vietnam.
  • February 1789: The Lê dynasty officially ended in 1789, when the peasant uprising of the Tây Sơn brothers defeated both the Trịnh and the Nguyễn, ironically in order to restore power to the Lê dynasty.
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