4000BC to 3000BC
- Ancient Barbaric Vietnamese
2500BC to 770BC
- 18 generations of Hung King
770BC to 220BC
- Tan Thuy Hoang Chinese Dynasty
- Vietnam still kept the current Guangdong and Guangxi
- 257 BC
- An Duong Vuong tookover from the 18th Hung King
220BC to 111BC
- 210BC
- Tan Thuy Hoang died
- 207BC to 111BC
- Trieu Da (Zhao Tuo) tookover Vietnam
- claimed the throne
- united Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainam islands and current northern Vietnam, named it Nam Việt
- 111BC
- Hán Võ Đế of China took over Nam Việt
- named every provinces Giao Chỉ (the name of one of Vietnamese tribes 2000 years prior)
- This marks the start of thousand years colonization of Vietnam by the Chinese
Thousand Years Colonization
- There were some rebellions but not truly successful
- Hai Ba Trung
- Ba Trieu
939 AD
- Ngo Quyen won the war on Bach Dang River
- The start of freedom
1802 AD
- Nguyễn Ánh united the country
- He took the name Gia Long King
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