title: 1953 in French Indochina
text: # 1953 in French Indochina
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1953 in French Indochina.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### May
  
  * May 9 - France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with King Norodom Sihanouk.
  
  ### November
  
  * November 9 - Laos gains its independence from France.
  * November 9 - The Khmer Issarak begins to fight the French Army and Cambodia joins the First Indochina War but the Kingdom of Cambodia is established.
  