ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : History of Cochin China </title> <META name="keywords" keyword="Cochinchina, Vietnam"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> History of Cochin China <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xcochinchina.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xcochinchina.html"> <img src = "../banners/bancochinchina.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on December 19th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> </div> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Cochin China </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 800-1431 <BR><BR> 1431 <BR> 1471 <BR><BR> 1624 <BR> 1697 <BR> 1698 <BR> 1720 <BR><BR> 1772 <BR> 1859 <BR> 1867 <BR> 1887 <BR> 1901 <BR> 1950 <BR> 1954 <BR> 1975 <BR> 1980- <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Territory of Cochinchina split between Khmer Empire (Mekong Delta, southern <BR> region), Champa (eastern coastal region) <BR> Khmer Empire subjected by Thai <BR> Champa's capital Indrapura (Hue) conquered, sacked by Annam; most of <BR> Champa conquered; southern part remained <BR> French missionary Alexandre de Rhodes arrived in Cochin China <BR> Champa became vassall of Annam <BR> City of Saigon founed by Annamese official <BR> Last independent remnant of Champa conquered by Annam; last Cham king <BR> fled to Cambodia, a group of Cham to Hainan <BR> The klongs (canals) of Saigon were begun to be filled up, turned into streets <BR> French occupation of Saigon <BR> French annexation of Cochin China <BR> Cochin China integrated into French Indochina <BR> Population of Cochin China 2,968,529 <BR> Emperor Bao Dai made aigon his capital <BR> Saigon became capital of South Vietnam <BR> Fall of Saigon marked end of Vietnam War; city renamed Ho Chi Minh City <BR> Exodus of the Boat People, ethnic Chinese, many from Saigon <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </div><div align="center"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; 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Bolt, A. Garrett</B></A> <BR> Saigon, from <A HREF = "http://www.vietscape.com/travel/saigon/"><B>Vietscape</B></A> <BR> Ho Chi Minh City <A HREF = "http://www.asianventure.com/vietnam/sights/saigon/history_museum.html"><B>History Museum</B></A> <BR> Ho Chi Minh City History, from <A HREF = "http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/south_east_asia/ho_chi_minh/history.htm"><B> Lonely Planet</B></A> <BR> World Statesmen : <A HREF = "http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Vietnam.html"><B>Vietnam</B></A>, by Ben Cahoon <BR> Historic Population Statistics by Province : <A HREF = "http://www.library.uu.nl/wesp/populstat/Asia/vietnamp.htm"><B> Vietnam</B></A>, from Population Statistics at Univ. Utrecht; data for Tonkin at the bottom <BR> Article Cochin-China, from <A HREF = "http://2.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CO/COCHIN_CHINA.htm"><B>EB 1911</B></A> <BR> Article Alexandre de Rhodes, from <A HREF = "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13024a.htm"><B>Catholic Encyclopedia</B></A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman"> Click here to go <A HREF = "../../index.html">Home</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../../about.html">Information about KMLA, WHKMLA, the author and webmaster</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../..links.html">Statistics</A><BR> </font> <BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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