Chronology of Cambodian History, 1900-1909         

YEAR

Month/Day/Year

1900

Jan. 16, 1900

Paul Louis Luce, interim Resident Superior.

Oct. 05, 1900

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.

June 03, 1901

Leon Pol Jules Boulloche, Resident Superieur.

1902

July 17, 1902

Charles Pallier, interim Resident Superieur.

Oct. 26, 1902

Henri Felix de Lamothe, Resident Superieur.

1904

Feb. 13, 1904

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.

May 25, 1904

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]

Sept. 25, 1904

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.

Aug. 17, 1905

Museum of archeology is built in Phnom Penh to store the work of L'ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient.

Oct. 16, 1905

Olivier Charles Arthur de Lalande-Calan, interim Resident Superieur.

Dec. 29, 1905

Paul Louis Luce, Resident Superieur.

1906

King Norodom's cremation.

July 01, 1906

King Sisowath visits Paris.

April 01, 1906

Pen Nouth is born. (Prime Minister)

April 27, 1906

Prince Sisowath is crowned king.

Dec. 02, 1906

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

March 23, 1907

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.

July 01, 1908

Nheou Vises leads a rebellion in Battambang, which lasts for a month.

Dec. 07, 1908

Son Ngoc Thanh is born. (Prime Minister)

1909

Feb. 10, 1909

Nheou Vises leads another rebellion.

April 14, 1909

Insurgents attack French Resident Superieur in Kampot.  Twenty-three people are killed in the attack.