Chronology of Cambodian History, 1920-1929 

YEAR

Month/Day/Year

1920

Feb. 25, 1920

Civil Code is adopted.

April 13, 1920

Albert Sarraut Museum is inaugurated in Phnom Penh. The Museum is again renamed from the Museum of Cambodia by a decree issued on April 10 by King Sisowath in honor of the French governor-general of Indochina, Albert Sarraut. [23]

April 15, 1920

Gaston Rene Georges Maspero, interim Resident Superieur.

Dec. 6, 1920

Hector Clair Henri Jospeh Letang, interim Resident Superieur.

1922

April 10, 1922

Victor L'Helgoulch, interim Resident Superieur.

Oct. 31, 1922

Prince Norodom Sihanouk is born.

1925

Feb. 14, 1925

France and Siam sign a Treaty of Friendship, which among other things, confirms the frontier between Cambodia and Siam that was demarcated in 1907.

April 16, 1925

French Resident, Bardez, is killed by angry Khmer peasants at Kampong Chhang.

1927

Jan. 20, 1927

Aristide Le Fol, Resident Superieur.

Aug. 9, 1927

King Sisowath dies; his son Prince Sisowath Monivong is elected to succeed him.

1928

May 25, 1928

Sarloth Sar (Pol Pot) is born. (Prime Minister)

July 20, 1928

Prince Sisowath Monivong is crowned king.

1929

Jan. 1, 1929

Achille Louis Auguste Silvestre, interim Resident Superieur.

Jan. 12, 1929

Femand Marie Joseph Antoine Lavit, Resident Superieur.