Vietnamese era names were titles adopted in historical Vietnam for the purpose of year identification and numbering.
Era names originated in 140 BCE in China, during the reign of the Emperor Wu of Han. Since the middle of the 6th century CE, independent Vietnamese dynasties started to proclaim their own era names.
During periods of direct Chinese rule, Chinese era names would gain official use in Vietnam, as was the case for other parts of China.
List of Vietnamese era names
The following is a list of era names adopted by independent Vietnamese monarchs. Era names used in Vietnam during the four periods of direct Chinese rule are not included.
Early Lý dynasty
Đinh dynasty
Early Lê dynasty
Lý dynasty
Trần dynasty
Other regimes contemporaneous with Trần dynasty
Hồ dynasty
Later Trần dynasty
Other regimes contemporaneous with Later Trần dynasty
Primitive Lê dynasty
Other regimes contemporaneous with Primitive Lê dynasty
Mạc dynasty
Revival Lê dynasty
Other regimes contemporaneous with Revival Lê dynasty
Tây Sơn dynasty
Nguyễn dynasty
Other regimes contemporaneous with Nguyễn dynasty
Modern Vietnam
See also
- List of Vietnamese monarchs
- Family tree of Vietnamese monarchs
References
Notes
Bibliography
- Ngô Sĩ Liên (1993), Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư (in Vietnamese) (Nội các quan bản ed.), Hanoi: Social Science Publishing House
- National Bureau for Historical Record (1998), Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Education Publishing House
- Trần Trọng Kim (1971), Việt Nam sử lược (in Vietnamese), Saigon: Center for School Materials
- Chapuis, Oscar (1995), A history of Vietnam: from Hong Bang to Tu Duc, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-313-29622-7
- Chapuis, Oscar (2000), The last emperors of Vietnam: from Tu Duc to Bao Dai, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-313-31170-6
