35 Facts About Nguyen Dynasty

The Nguyen dynasty was gradually absorbed by France over the course of several decades in the latter half of the 19th century, beginning with the Cochinchina Campaign in 1858 which led to the occupation of the southern area of Vietnam.

Affiliations with the ruling elite date back to the tenth century when Nguyen Bac was appointed the first Grand Chancellor of the short-lived Ðinh dynasty under Ðinh Bo Linh in 965.

Nguyen Dynasty fled further south to the Gia Ðinh Province by sea before the arrival of Tay Son leader Nguyen Nhac, whose forces defeated the Nguyen garrison and seized Quang Nam.

In 1775, the 13-year-old Nguyen Dynasty Anh escaped and with the help of the Vietnamese Catholic priest Paul Ho Van Nghi soon arrived at the Paris Foreign Missions Society in Ha Tien.

In 1782, Nguyen Dynasty Anh escaped to Cambodia and the Tay Son seized southern Vietnam.

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The Nguyen Dynasty army killed grand admiral Pham Ngan, who had a close relationship with the Emperor Thai Ðuc, at Tham Luong bridge.

Nguyen Dynasty sacked the town of Cu lao, which had a large Chinese population, and ordered the oppression of the Chinese community to avenge their assistance to Anh.

Nguyen Dynasty returned to Giong Lu, defeated Admiral Nguyen Hoc of the Tay Son and captured eighty battleships.

Anh then began a campaign to reclaim southern Vietnam, but Nguyen Dynasty Hue deployed a naval force to the river and destroyed his navy.

Nguyen Dynasty Anh ceded the Ða Nang estuary and Con Son Island to France.

Nguyen Dynasty spent fifteen thousand francs of his own money to purchase guns and warships.

In 1786, Nguyen Dynasty Hue led the army against the Trinh lords; Trinh Khai escaped to the north but got captured by the local people.

Nguyen Dynasty summoned Nguyen Huu Chinh, governor of Nghe An, to attack the Trinh lord at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long.

Nguyen Dynasty's young son, Nguyen Quang Toan, succeeded him as emperor of the Tay Son and was a poor leader.

Nguyen Dynasty seized the capital on 3 May 1801, and Quang Toan retreated north.

The ruling Nguyen Dynasty emperors established and ran the first well-defined imperial administrative and bureaucratic system of Vietnam and annexed Cambodia and Champa into its territories in the 1830s.

Nguyen Dynasty further expanded Vietnamese imperialism in modern-day Laos and Cambodia.

Nguyen Dynasty celebrated his coronation at Hue on 1 June 1802 and proclaimed himself emperor, with the era name Gia Long.

Nguyen Dynasty replaced the feudal system with a reformist Doctrine of the Mean, based on Confucianism.

The Nguyen dynasty was founded as a tributary state of the Qing Empire, with Gia Long receiving an imperial pardon and recognition as the ruler of Vietnam from the Jiaqing Emperor for recognizing Chinese suzerainty.

Nguyen Dynasty halted diplomacy with Europe, and cracked down on religious minorities.

Nguyen Dynasty coercively fed lizard and pig meat to Cham Muslims and cow meat to Cham Hindus in violation of their religions to forcibly assimilate them to Vietnamese culture.

Nguyen Dynasty backed the revolt of Laotian king Anouvong of Vientiane against the Siamese, and seized Xam Neua and Savannakhet in 1827.

Nguyen Dynasty sent an ultimatum to the regents that "The name Vietnam will no longer exist in history" if they did not comply with this.

Emperor of the Nguyen dynasty was an absolutist ruler, which means he was both the head of state and the head of government.

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All the Nguyen Dynasty monarchs were addresses as hoang de in the court while referring himself the first person honorific tram.

However, in most cases, Nguyen Dynasty rulers were formally called vua by the ordinary Vietnamese folks.

Nguyen Dynasty claimed the legacy of Confucianism and China's Han dynasty for Vietnam, and used the term "Han people" to refer to the Vietnamese.

Confucianism itself was the ideology of the Nguyen Dynasty court, provided the basic core of classical education and civil examination every year.

The Minh huong were Chinese refugees that had migrated and settled down in Vietnam earlier during the 17th century, who married with Vietnamese women, had been substantially assimilated to local Vietnamese and Khmer populaces, and loyal to the Nguyen Dynasty, compared to the Thanh nhan that recently arrived in Southern Vietnam, dominated the rice trade.

House of Nguyen Phuc had historically been founded in the 14th century in Gia Mieu village, Thanh Hoa Province, before they came to rule southern Vietnam from 1558 to 1777, then became the ruling dynasty of the entire Vietnam.

Nguyen Dynasty was dethroned and imprisoned three days later, after being accused of deleting a paragraph from Tu Ðuc's will.

The various types of seals of the Nguyen dynasty had different names based on their function, namely Bao, Ty, An, Chuong, An chuong, Kim bao ty, Quan phong, Ðo ky, Kiem ky, Tin ky, An Ky, Truong ky, and Ky.

Seals in the Nguyen dynasty were overseen by a pair of agencies referred to as the Office of Ministry Seals Management - Officers on Duty, this is a term that refers to two agencies which were established within each of the Six Ministries, these agencies were tasked with keeping track of the seals, files, and chapters of their ministry.

The heraldic systems of both the Later Le and Nguyen Dynasty dynasties were similar to those found in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties.