Chronology
of Cambodian History, 1900-1920
YEAR
Month/Day/Year
1900
01/16/00
Paul Louis Luce,
interim Resident Superior.
10/05/00
Prince Yukanthor
visits Paris. The prince, a favored son of king Norodom, travels to France
and confronts the French government with a host of the King's complaints
about the French authority in Cambodia. [Learn more
about the event - in French]
1901
The École
Francaise d'Extreme-Orient sends its first mission to record and
photograph the bas-reliefs of the Bayon.
06/03/01
Leon Pol Jules
Boulloche, Resident Superieur.
1902
07/17/02
Charles
Pallier, interim Resident Superieur.
10/26/02
Henri
Felix de Lamothe, Resident Superieur.
1904
02/13/04
French and Siam sign a treaty establishing the general character
of the frontier between Cambodia and Siam (Thailand). A Franco-Siamese Mixed Commission
will survey and draw an exact boundary.
05/25/04
King Norodom dies. His half-brother, Prince Sisowath,
is elected by the Council of Regent and Resident Superieur to succeed the
late king. [About Sisowath
in French]
09/25/04
Henri Felix de
Lamothe, Resident Superieur.
1905
The
protectorate authorities report that there are seven hundred and fifty
pupils attending schools in Phnom Penh and that twenty-nine are princes
and twenty-five princesses.
08/17/05
Museum of
archeology is built in Phnom Penh to store the work of L'ecole Francaise
d'Extreme-Orient.
10/16/05
Olivier Charles Arthur
de Lalande-Calan, interim Resident Superieur.
12/29/05
Paul Louis Luce,
Resident Superieur.
1906
King Norodom's
cremation.
07/01/06
King Sisowath visits
Paris.
04/01/06
Pen Nouth is born.
(Prime Minister)
04/27/06
Prince Sisowath is
crowned king.
12/02/06
A Franco-Siamese Mixed Commission, which is established to
demarcate the Cambodia-Siam border, agrees at its meeting to travel along
the Dangrek ranges for the purpose of demarcation the borderline.
1907
03/23/07
France and Siam signs a boundary treaty, in which France
relinquish three Cambodian provinces - Battambang, Sisophon and Siem Reap
- to Siam.
1908
French census
reveals some sixty thousand Vietnamese in Cambodia; total Cambodian
population is less than one million.
Prince Monivong, who attended
a French military academy, is commissioned as a lieutenant in the French
Foreign Legion.
07/01/08
Nheou Vises leads a
rebellion in Battambang, which lasts for a month.
12/07/08
Son
Ngoc Thanh is born. (Prime Minister)
1909
02/10/09
Nheou Vises leads
another rebellion.
04/14/09
Insurgents
attack French Resident Superieur in Kampot. Twenty-three people are killed in
the attack.
1911
Alexis Louis
Chhun is appointed Youmreach (Minister of Justice).
07/26/11
Paul Louis Luce,
Resident Superieur.
10/05/11
Son Sann is born.
(Prime Minister)
10/08/11
Ernest Outray,
Resident Superieur.
1912
Penal
Code is adopted in Cambodia.
1913
11/13/13
Lon Nol
is born. (Prime Minister and President)
1914
Sisowath Sirik
Matak is born. He will
play a significant role in Cambodian politics, especially in the early
1970s.
Banteay
Srei (the citadel of women), located about 20km from Angkor, is
discovered.
01/02/14
Cochinchina governor
writes letter to Resident Superieur in Cambodia concerning maritime border
between Cochinchina and Cambodia.
03/26/14
Xavier Tessareck,
interim Resident Superieur.
07/25/14
Maurice Le Gallen,
interim Resident Superieur.
10/22/14
Francols Marlus
Baudoin, Resident Superieur.
11/20/14
Pali school is
established in Phnom Penh.
1916
Prince Mayura,
King Norodom's son, is exiled to the remote northern Laotian town of Xieng
Khouang; he was suspected of working against the French's rule.
01/06/16
The 1916 Affair
begins, in which thousands of Cambodian peasants march into Phnom Penh to
complain to the king about the taxes and forced labor that are imposed
upon them by the French. More than 500 people are arrested and put in
prison.
1917
School of
Administration is established in Phnom Penh by the French authority to
train Cambodian officials.
1918
National
Museum of Cambodia is opened. Its purpose is to store and exhibit
Cambodia's national treasures - stone, bronze, and wooden sculpture.
[23]
1919
04/12/19
King Sisowath issues a decree to rename the National Museum of
Cambodia to the Musée du Cambodge (Museum of Cambodia). [23]
| 
