Gia Long unifies Vietnam and founds the Nguyễn dynasty
Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, who had fought the Tây Sơn brothers for a quarter of a century, took the imperial title and the era name Gia Long in the recaptured city of Phú Xuân (Huế). Soon afterward he took Thăng Long (Hanoi) and for the first time united the whole of Vietnam under his rule, from the Chinese border to the Gulf of Siam.
- Date
- 1 June 1802exact date
- Place
- Phú Xuân (Huế)today: Huế, Vietnam · Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Participants
- Gia Long (Nguyễn Phúc Ánh), Nguyễn dynasty
- Threads
- The world in the Age of Revolution
- Also known as
- Воцарение Зя Лонга; Коронация Зя Лонга
Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, a nephew of the last of the Nguyễn lords who had ruled the south of the country, survived their destruction in 1777 during the Tây Sơn rebellion. He was aided by the French bishop Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, who recruited volunteer officers for him; they trained his army and built fortifications and ships on the European model. In 1801 Nguyễn’s forces took Quy Nhơn and Huế, and in July 1802 Thăng Long.
Huế became the capital of the new dynasty, and a citadel with a palace was built there on the Chinese model. The Qing Empire recognized Gia Long as its vassal and in 1804 approved the country’s new name, Vietnam. The Nguyễn dynasty ruled until 1945.
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