Yaƙin Tonkin ya kasance rikici ne da aka yi tsakanin Yuni 1883 da Afrilu 1886 da Faransawa suka yi, daban-daban, da Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army da Guangxi na China da Yunnan sojojin don mamaye Tonkin ( arewacin Vietnam) da kuma kafa kariya ta Faransa a can. Yaƙin, wanda ya rikitar da shi a watan Agusta 1884 ta barkewar Yaƙin Sino-Faransa kuma a watan Yulin 1885 ta hanyar tashin hankalin Cần Vương a Annam, wanda ya buƙaci karkatar da dakarun Faransa da yawa, rundunar Sojojin Tonkin ce ta gudanar da shi, tare da goyon bayan jiragen ruwa na Tonkin Flotilla. Yaƙin ya ƙare a hukumance a watan Afrilu na 1886, lokacin da aka rage girman rundunar zuwa sashin aikin soja na Tonkin, amma ba a sami kwanciyar hankali ba har zuwa 1896. Tambaya: Yaushe ne yaƙin Tonkin ya ƙare?
Afrilu 1886