Having escaped from the Tây Sơn by sea, the crown prince Nguyễn Phúc Dương reached Saigon. The Chinese commander Lý Tài forced Lord Nguyễn Phúc Thuần to abdicate in his favour; Dương took the title Tân Chính vương and Thuần became Thái thượng vương.
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Nguyễn Phúc Dương proclaimed Tân Chính vương
- 1776
- Southeast Asia
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