HISTORICAL DATES
“We think ourselves into war. The antecedents are in our minds. Brooks, 23 August 70.
2879 to 258 BC
—The First Vietnamese Kingdom (Van Lang or Van Tang, The Country of Tattooed Men).
—The Bac-sonians, a wave of Australoids from the north settle in the Red River Valley area (Hanoi-Haiphong).
—First wave of Malays from Central Asia settle coastal area from Saigon to Hue.
500 BC
—Han Chinese advance into Vietnam (Red River Valley) and force earlier settlers south setting off the first North/ South conflict.
258 to 207 BC
—The Second Vietnamese Kingdom (Au Lac). The King of Thuc conquers Van Lang.
207 BC
—Au Lac overrun by Central Chinese peoples who establish the Kingdom of Nam Viet in the Red River Valley.
111 BCto AD 939
—Chinese occupy northern portion of Vie
