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Kampuchea in 1951

Historical records for Kampuchea in 1951, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

9Records
6Events
4Named people
1Places
3Categories

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1951Cercle MarxistePol Pot

Politics / Communist Party

Joins a communist cell in a secret organisation known as the Cercle Marxiste which had taken control of the Khmer Students Association (AER) that same year

1951Chief of Police AppointedLon Nol

Phnom Penh · Government / French Protectorate of Cambodia

Becomes Chief of Police during the late protectorate period

1951KCPPol Pot

Politics / Communist Party

Founded when the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) was divided into separate Kampuchean, Lao, and Vietnamese communist parties.

1951KCPPol Pot

Politics / Communist Party

Joins a communist cell in a secret organisation known as the Cercle Marxiste which had taken control of the Khmer Students Association (AER) that same year.

1951KCPPol Pot

Politics / Communist Party

Pol Pot helps tranform the Khmer Students Association (KSA), to which most of the 200 or so Khmer students in Paris belonged, into an organisation for nationalist and leftist ideas.

1951Khmer Students AssociationPol Pot

Politics / Communist Party

Joins a communist cell in a secret organisation known as the Cercle Marxiste which had taken control of the Khmer Students Association (AER) that same year

1951KSAPol Pot

Politics / Communist Party

Pol Pot helps tranform the Khmer Students Association (KSA), to which most of the 200 or so Khmer students in Paris belonged, into an organisation for nationalist and leftist ideas

1951Prime Minister of KampucheaHuy Kanthoul

Government / Government of Kampuchea

Appointed Prime Minister of Kampuchea

1951Prime Minister of KampucheaOum Chheang Sun

Government / Government of Kampuchea

Appointed Prime Minister of Kampuchea, 1st term

Names involved

Huy KanthoulLon NolOum Chheang SunPol Pot

Places involved

Phnom Penh

Provenance

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