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June 5, 1862 - The Treaty of Saigon ceded three southern Vietnamese provinces to France. France established the colony of Cochinchina (Southern Vietnam) in 1867. Over the next 30 years, France absorbed Northern Vietnam (1884), Cambodia (1887) and Laos (1893) into its Indochina colonial empire.

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No it was not Vieitnam the first French colony was in North America, 1605 Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia)

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