Khai Dinh

Emperor Khai Dinh (啟定帝) (Nguyen Buu Dao) was the 12th Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam. His name at birth was Prince Nguyen Buu Dao. He was the son of the Emperor Dong Khanh, but he did not succeed him immediately.

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After the Emperor Dong Khanh era came the eras of Emperor Thanh Thai and Emperor Duy Tan, both of whom were exiled by the French for their resistance to the colonial regime. After this trouble, the French decided to enthrone Buu Dao as he was the son of the monarch who was the most submissive Nguyen collaborator with the colonial regime, standing with the French colonizers and opposing any independence movements, Emperor Dong Khanh.

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Dong Khanh: Emperor Dong Khanh (同慶帝; - 1889) was the 9th Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam. He reigned between 1885 and 1889, and was considered one of the most despised emperors of his era. Little is known of him, presumably because most Vietnamese historians were too ashamed to wr...