High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Politics
1028
Ly Thai To dies; Ly Thai Tong succeeds in Vietnam
1028
The founder of the Ly dynasty died after nearly two decades of consolidating Vietnamese independence from Chinese influence. His son Ly Thai Tong inherited a state centered at Thang Long that was beginning to develop its own distinctive Buddhist architecture, legal code, and military capability, distinct from its enormous northern neighbor for the first time in centuries.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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