Abdication of Bảo Đại

The abdication of Bảo Đại (Vietnamese: Chiếu thoái vị của Hoàng Đế Bảo Đại) took place on 25 August 1945, in response to the August Revolution. It marked the end of the 143-year reign of the Nguyễn dynasty, a dynasty under the House of Nguyễn Phúc, and marked the end of the Vietnamese monarchy. The fall of the Nguyễn dynasty led to the end of the Empire of Vietnam cabinet of Prime Minister Trần Trọng Kim, a Japanese puppet government.

A public abdication ceremony was held on 30 August 1945, in which Emperor Bảo Đại handed power over to the Viet Minh. Following his abdication, Bảo Đại became "citizen Vĩnh Thụy", an advisor to the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV).

On 14 June 1949, the French united French Cochinchina with the protectorates of Annam and Tonkin to form the associated State of Vietnam within the French Union, and reinstalled Bảo Đại as head of state. The State of Vietnam was a semi-constitutional monarchy, and Bảo Đại was its monarch, but he was called the Chief of State (Quốc trưởng). His position was supposed to only be temporary until the country would have an elected constitutional parliament. On 26 October 1955, three days after a fraudulent referendum, Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem proclaimed the formation of the Republic of Vietnam as the successor state to the State of Vietnam, with himself as its first President. This event marked the end of the rule of Bảo Đại.

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