30 stops · 2524 BCE – 2025 CE
Vietnam in 30 stops
From the legendary Hùng kings to the provinces redrawn in 2025: the Red River and the Mekong, Champa and the Khmer south, wars and treaties, temples, scholars and science, each stop on the map in its year.
The stops
- 12524 BCEFounding of Văn Lang by the first Hùng king
- 2257 BCEAn Dương Vương builds the Cổ Loa citadel
- 340 CETrưng sisters' rebellion
- 4152 CERoman gold reaches Óc Eo
- 5380 CEBhadravarman I founds the Bhadreśvara temple at Mỹ Sơn
- 6938 CEBattle of Bach Dang River
- 71010Construction of the Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long
- 81077Battle of Như Nguyệt River
- 91288Battle of Bạch Đằng
- 101306Cession of Ô and Lý
- 111371Champa–Đại Việt War
- 121418Lam Sơn uprising
- 131471Siege of Vijaya
- 141484First doctoral steles at the Temple of Literature
- 151532Kh'leang pagoda begun
- 161624Alexandre de Rhodes arrives in Hội An
- 171698Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh organises Gia Định prefecture
- 181736Chiêu Anh Các poetry society founded
- 191771Tây Sơn uprising
- 201802Accession of Gia Long
- 211820Vĩnh Tế canal dug
- 221859Franco-Spanish capture of the Gia Định citadel
- 231885Cần Vương edict
- 241891Founding of the Pasteur Institute of Saigon
- 251926Founding of Caodaism
- 261945Declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
- 271954Battle of Dien Bien Phu
- 281975Fall of Saigon
- 291986Đổi Mới
- 3020252025 merger of Vietnam's provinces