Central Vietnam anti-tax protests challenge colonial levies and corvée

After French forces attacked the Huế court, Hàm Nghi and regent Tôn Thất Thuyết left the capital and issued an appeal calling officials and people to support the monarch and resist French conquest....

Following the Cần Vương appeal, Trần Văn Dư issued a proclamation in Quảng Nam urging local residents to resist French power. Nguyễn Duy Hiệu later led the organization. Local networks and...

France established the Indochinese Union, combining Cochinchina, Annam, Tonkin and Cambodia; Laos joined in 1893. The colonial federation organized territory and labor for imperial rule, despite...

The movement sent Vietnamese students to Japan to study and build capacity for national liberation. Its organizers sought overseas education and political alliances, not just schooling....

The school promoted modern education, chữ quốc ngữ, and civic reform within an anti-colonial intellectual movement. French authorities closed it later that year. Its educators pursued cultural renewal...

Vietnamese cooks and soldiers attempted to poison French troops in the Hanoi citadel as part of a wider plan for an uprising. The plot was exposed and colonial authorities executed organizers and...

The planned uprising associated with Trần Cao Vân and Thái Phiên sought to mobilize support for the young emperor Duy Tân against French rule. It was quickly suppressed; organizers were executed and...

A coalition that included political prisoners, other detainees, and mutinous guards took the largest prison in northern Tonkin and proclaimed a general uprising. The rebellion exposed prisons as...

A petition calling for civil rights and political reforms for people in Annam was circulated to the Versailles peace conference. It did not secure a hearing from the great powers, but helped introduce...

French agents abducted the prominent Vietnamese anticolonial activist in Shanghai and took him to Hanoi for trial. His death sentence was commuted amid public pressure, but he was held under...