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Prince Norodom Sihanouk is born.
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The Japanese ocupie Cambodia at this time.
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Japan loses Cambodia when the French re-takes Cambodia.
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Cambodia finaly gets independence from the french.
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Norodom Suramarit becomes king. Sihanouk becomes Prime minister for many years.
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Sihanouk is elected as head of state after the death of his father.
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During the 1960s, North Vietnam soldiers took ordinace through Cambodia because American forces where between North and South Vietnam.
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Exiled in China, Sihanouk aligns himself with the Khmer Rouge and urges.
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The Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, ended the lives of more than 2 million people from starvation, overwork or execution.
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Sihanouk returns as head of state but resigns a few months later and is placed under "palace arrest" of house arrest. by the hardline communist regime.
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Nationalists and royalists attack each other thus creating a civil war.
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Sihanouk becomes the president of the anti-Vietnamese coalition government of Democratic Kampuchea, which includes Sihanouk's newly created FUNCINPEC party and the Khmer Rouge.
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Hun Sen appointed as prime minister of Cambodia.
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Veitnamese troops with draw from international pressure.
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Paris peace agreement is signed, giving the UN authority to supervise a ceasefire and democratic elections.
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Sihanouk makes an epic return to Cambodia after nearly 13 years in exile.
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UN-sponsored elections are held and the royalist FUNCINPEC party receives 47 percent of the vote, ahead of Hun Sen's Cambodia People's Party.
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Sihanouk returns to the throne under a new constitution forming the country into a constitutional monarchy.
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Sihanouk makes first of many trips to Beijing for medical treatment after being diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma, a cancer affecting blood cells crucial to the immune system.
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The Khmer Rouge are outlawed.
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Hun Sen ousts Ranariddh in a widely condemned move that leads to deadly factional street fighting.
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Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot dies.
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Sihanouk promulgates a law creating a UN-backed tribunal to bring Khmer Rouge leaders to justice.
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In a surprise announcement, Sihanouk abdicates, citing poor health and a wish to ensure a stable change to a new monarch
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Sihanouk's 51-year-old son Norodom Sihamoni, a former dancer and Cambodia's representative to UNESCO, is named the new king