 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms |
|  |
| | | | Southeast Asia |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1887 |
| | | France brings Cambodia and Vietnam into a federation of protectorates under the title French Indochina | |
| |
|
| 1893 |
| | | France incorporates Laos within French Indochina | |
| |
|
| 1898 |
| | | The Philippines declare independence from the colonial power, Spain, with whom they are at war | |
| |
|
| 1898 |
| | | The agreement ending the Spanish-American War includes Spain selling the Philippines to the USA for a payment of $20 million | |
| |
|
| 1927 |
| | | Achmed Sukarno becomes the first chairman of the new Indonesian Nationalist Party | |
| |
|
| 1938 |
| | | Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) builds the Burma Road as a supply route | |
| |
|
| 1938 |
| | | 23-year-old Rangoon student Aung San, later the father of Aung San Suu Kyi, becomes general secretary of a freedom party, Dobama Asiayone (Our Burma Union) | |
| |
|
| 1941 |
| | | Aung San and some revolutionary colleagues (the Thirty Comrades) receive military training in Japan, aiming to evict the British from Burma | |
| |
|
| 1941 May 19 |
| | | The Vietminh is founded as a guerrilla force to liberate Vietnam from the Japanese, and Ho Chi Minh soon emerges as the leader | |
| |
|
| 1941 December 8 |
| | | Within hours of Pearl Harbor, Japanese aircraft attack the Philippines and destroy half the available US planes | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |