Industrial Age · Southeast Asia · War
1859
French Enter Indochina
April 29, 1859
French and Spanish forces seized Saigon, beginning France's thirty-year conquest of Indochina. The pretext was mistreatment of Catholic missionaries; the real motive was imperial competition and a port on the South China Sea. Within a generation, Cochinchina, Annam, Tonkin, and Cambodia would be painted the color of France on the atlas.
In context
Also in 1859 (4 other events on record)
- Origin of Species Published · Europe · Science
- First Oil Well · North America · Technology
- Battle of Solferino · Europe · War
- John Brown's Raid · North America · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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