Enlightenment · Southeast Asia · War
1771
Tây Sơn Rebellion Erupts in Vietnam
January 1771
Three brothers from the village of Tây Sơn in central Vietnam raised a peasant revolt against the Nguyễn lords of the south. Within a decade they would overthrow both rival dynasties and reunify Vietnam, defeating a Chinese invasion in the process. The rebellion was Southeast Asia's most dramatic revolution of the century.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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