According to archaeological findings in Thua Thien Hue and, specifically, to research results of Con Dang archaeological excavations of the Sa Huynh Culture, it has been confirmed that the history in this region dates back from 2500 to 2800 years ago. This population of ancient people probably eveloped into two communities, the Cham and the ethnic minority groups living in Truong Son Range. Findings such as collected relics of the Stone Age also prove that Thua Thien Hue's history may date back even further.
After the historical military victory at Bach Dang (938 BC). Dai Viet became an independent nation and after territorial conflict lasting for almost four centuries between Dai Viet and Champa, the former eventually expanded its territory further south. After changing the names of the two provinces of and Ly into Thuan and Hoa, respectively, in 1307 King Tran Anh Tong appointed Doan Nhu Hai to administer the area. During this period, he allocated land to the people, held a moratorium on taxes for three years, and, as a result, reassured the new Viet inhabitants. From the end of Tran times, therefore, the Viet people from the north (Thanh Hoa) expanded southward and shared this area with the native people of the Kingdom of Champa. Only at this point had Viet people begun settling Hoa Chau Province, an area that at the time included present-day Thua Thien.

From the formation of Thuan Hoa (1306) to the founding of Phu Xuan (1687), the land and people of Thua Thíen Hue witnessed tremendous upheaval, vicissitudes in the nation's history, i ncluding the fall of the Tran Dynasty and the wish for a renaissance under the Ho Dynasty. In the fifteenth century, the people also ardently pariicipated in the ten-year resistance of the Lam Son insurgent army against the Minh invasion (1418-1428). The corruption, conservatism, and militarism of the Le-Trinh Dynasty then led to the division of the country into two parts, Dang Trong (southern Viet Nam) and Dang Ngoai (northern Viet Nam), for 200 years. During this period, Thuan Hoa-Phu Xuan gradually became the center of the Kingdom of Dai Viet after Nguyen Hoang was appointed head of Thuan Hoa (11-1558). From the time he set his foot on the land south of the Hoang Son

Range to his death, Lord Nguyen Hoang (1558-1613) established his bases at Ai Tu, Tra Bat and Dinh Cat, focusing his energy on expanding the border southward as well as cuitural and economic development of these new areas. While infighting within the Le-Trinh Bloc in the north continued, Nguyen Lords rapidly expanded Dang Trong further south. During that period, Nguyen Lords relocated their palaces from Phuoc Yen to Kim Long (1636), before finally basing their economic, political, and cultural center in Phu Xuan (1687). The Nguyen Lords ruled this area until 1775 when it was temporarily occupied by the Trinh clan.

During the late 18th century, the Tay Son brothers vastly changed the feudal state in Thua Thien Hue. The farmer's movement led by three brothers Nguyen Nhac, Nguyen Hue and Nguyen Lu, who had gained momentum since their first rise to arms in 1771. ln June 1786, the Tay Son insurgent army marched to Phu Xuan to win a decisive battle and occupy the Nguyen capital. From here, the Tay Son insurgent army continued north and overthrew the Trinh Dynasty, ending 200 years of division between Dang Trong and Dang Ngoai thereby ending the internal strife and unifying the nation. Also in Phu Xuan, on Ban Son Summit, Nguyen Hue anointed himself king before leading the army to Thang Long and defeating a Qing Army of 290,000 men. But internal conflict within the leadership of the Tay Son Movement led to a regressive fali from grace as the movement quickly died affer the untimely (and premature) death of Nguyen Hue on September 16, 1792. Taking advantage of the situation, Nguyen Anh, supported by foreign forces, attacked and seized Gia Dinh (Sai Gon) and used it as a springboard for a counter-attack against the Tay Son Army, ocupying Phu Xuan and taking the throne, and choosing the dynastic title of Gia Long (May, 1802). Once again, Phu Xuan had been chosen as the capital of a unified Viet Nam until the August Revolution of 1945.

The first half of the nineteenth century - under the Reigns of Gia Long (1802-1820), Minh Mang (1820-1840), Thieu Tri (1840-1847) - was the golden age of the feudal society during Nguyen Dynasty. The death of Emperor Tu Duc in July 1883 marked the decline of the Nguyen Dynasty.
Nguyen Kings from Tu Duc's reign onwards made concession affer concession - from Harmand to Patenotre Treaties and tinally acknowledged de facto French rule over Viet Nam. The loss of power within the imperial city has leff Thua Thien Hue with bloody historical pages, and at the same time marked the beginning of the struggle for the national liberation beginning with the Can Vuong (Save the King) anđ Van Than Movements during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The development of patriotic and revolutionary movements ultimately led to the establishment of Viet Nam's Communist Party, which operated and guided the people in their revolutionary movement for independence. The pinnacle of these movements was the victory of the resistance, which seized power in 1945 and opened a new historical period for revolutionary activity in Thua Thien Hue as well as the rest of Viet Nam. The people of Thua Thien Hue, who experienced the two natlonal holy resistances from 1946 to 1975, spared nothing, including sweat and blood, in tandem with the people of the entire nation to defeat two of the largest empires, France and the United States of America.

Thua Thien Hue is the larld of numerous heroic and legendary tales during Viet Nam's history of struggle for liberation and served as the starting point for the political movements in the Southern urban areas. The most outstanding ones include the Buddhist movement of 1963, the urban movenlent of Hue pupils. students and intellectuats, the Mau Than (Tet) Spring Assault and Uprislng of 1968. and finally the general assault to completely liberate Thua Thien Hue in the spring of 1975.

After liberation day, the Communist Party of Thua Thien Hue and its people joined their efforts to heal war wounds, restore and develop production, and implement important economic and social programs from 1975 to 1980. With the lessons learned from the success and shortcomings of a centrally managed and subsidized economy and society, Thua Thien Hue, under the leadership of the Communist Party, authority and people continued to enter the period of overall consolidation and development from 1980 to 2005 and to make great achievements in economics, politìcs, national defense and security, culture, society, and diplomacy.

Nowadays, together with the nation Thua Thien Hue is confidently entering a new historical stage with many opportunities and challenges in its cause of national construction, economic development, reform, and integration within the region as well as the world.