2879 - 257	Hong Bang dynasty -- Hung Vuong era
257 - 207	Thuc dynasty -- Au Lac reign
207 - 111	Trieu dynasty
111 - 39	Han dynasty -- Chinese domination
40 - 43	Trung Sisters
43 - 544	Han dynasty -- Chinese domination	Lady Trieu uprising -- "I only want to ride the winds, tread the waves, slay sharks in the Eastern Sea, free the land of invaders, and save the people from drowning in woes; how could I follow the example of others and bow my head and bend my back to wait on some man as his concubine and resign myself to the role of a domestic at home?"*
544 - 603	Early Ly dynasty
602 - 905	Tang dynasty -- Chinese domination
905 - 923	Autonomous period
939 - 965	Ngo dynasty
968 - 1054	Dinh dynasty
1054 - 1400	Early Le, Ly and Tran dynasties
1400 - 1407	Ho dynasty
1407 - 1427	Tran dynasty
1428 - 1802	Le/Nguyen dynasties
1802 - 1945	Nguyen dynasty	French colonization ended in 1954
1954 - 1975	The two Viets	North and South Viet Nam were separated at 17th parallel by the Geneva treaty
1975 - present	Viet Nam as one under the Communist regime

Sources: Viet Su Tan Bien; Dai Viet Su Ky Toan Thu.

* Cong Huyen Ton Nu Nha Trang: The makings of the national heroine (The Vietnam Review, 1996)