• the Vietnamese emperor Minh Mang attempted to stifle the work of Catholic missionaries by appointing them as mandarins in the royal court, claiming a lack of translators?

Facts on topics related to Minh Mang

Gia Long

• Gia Long, the first Emperor of Vietnam's Nguyen Dynasty unified the country for the first time in its modern state with French military assistance from his friend and Catholic priest Pigneau de Behaine?
• Emperor Gia Long united Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty after French missionary Pigneau de Behaine, whom he met in a forest while fleeing the Tay Son dynasty, sought French military assistance?
• three of Nguyen Anh's generals, Do Thanh Nhon, Chau Van Tiep and Vo Tanh, were called "Gia Định Tam Hùng" (Three Heroes of Gia Dinh) in Vietnamese folk culture?

Nguyen dynasty

• Emperor Gia Long united Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty after French missionary Pigneau de Behaine, whom he met in a forest while fleeing the Tay Son dynasty, sought French military assistance?

Bao Dai

• the Battle for Saigon in 1955 started as Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem tried to wrest control of the police from the Binh Xuyen organised gang licensed by Emperor Bao Dai?

History of Vietnam

• paper money was first introduced into Vietnam during the reign of the Trần Dynasty?
• Dương Vân Nga (statue pictured) is the only woman in the history of Vietnam to be married to two emperors, Đinh Tiên Hoàng of the Đinh Dynasty and Lê Hoàn of the Early Lê Dynasty?
• Ellen Hammer is regarded as one of the first Americans to study the history of Vietnam?
• Đại Việt sử lược is considered the oldest remaining annals of the history of Vietnam?
• the first imperial examination in the history of Vietnam was organized in 1072 during the reign of Lý Nhân Tông?

Emperor

• Emperor Peter III of Russia was deposed by his wife Catherine and her friend Ekaterina Dashkova after he had made public his plans to divorce Catherine and marry Ekaterina's sister Elisabeth?
• Emperor Qinzong of Song China was the last emperor of the Northern Song?
• Gia Long, the first Emperor of Vietnam's Nguyen Dynasty unified the country for the first time in its modern state with French military assistance from his friend and Catholic priest Pigneau de Behaine?
• Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski was the only Muslim to be appointed General-Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia?
• despite his never having been emperor, Li Chengqi was posthumously honoured as such by the Tang Chinese Emperor Xuanzong?
• the building that became Presidential Palace in Vilnius served as residence for the French Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I of Russia?