bao dai

  • birth

    Nguyen Vinh Thuy
  • Period: to

    King of Annam

    as the French protectorate in central Vietnam was known
  • succeeded the throne

  • Period: to

    WW2

    French colonial regime exercised a firm control over Bao Dai during WW2
  • Japanese coup

    Japanese coup de force removed the French from Indochina
  • fled to Hong Kong

    when the Viet Minh took over
  • Period: to

    head of the Associated State of Vietnam

  • abdication

    call for a republic and he abdicates the throne