Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng is founded

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...

The reformist nationalist’s death prompted large memorial gatherings and funeral demonstrations across Vietnam. Students, workers, and residents used mourning to express political solidarity under...

The party was founded through a unification initiative led by Nguyễn Ái Quốc (later Hồ Chí Minh). It joined Marxist organizing with the demand to end colonial rule, while its program and later mass...

Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (VNQDD), joined by some Vietnamese soldiers in the colonial army, launched an uprising in northern Vietnam. French forces crushed it and imposed harsh...

After the failed Yên Bái uprising, French colonial authorities guillotined Nguyễn Thái Học and other VNQDD leaders in Hanoi. Their executions became a symbol of repression and sacrifice in nationalist...

Demonstrations, strikes and peasant mobilization in Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh developed into the Nghệ-Tĩnh Soviet movement. Participants challenged colonial officials, landlords and local authority;...

Activists organized a campaign to collect grievances and petition the French Popular Front government. It opened temporary space for political organizing but was constrained by colonial authorities...