Portuguese Macau
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Macau was under Portuguese rule from the establishment of the first official Portuguese settlement in 1557 until its handover to China in 1999. It comprised the Municipality of Macau and the Municipal
16th century Portuguese watercolour of the Chinese, contained within the Códice Casanatense
Church of St. Dominic, among Macau's oldest, and where the first modern newspaper in China, A Abelha da China, was published
Portuguese carrack depicted in a Japanese lacquer screen
Amacao, by Theodor de Bry, c. 1598
12-3 incident
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The 12-3 incident was a series of political demonstrations and riots against Portuguese colonial rule in Macau which occurred on December 3, 1966. The incident, inspired by the Cultural Revolution in
Portuguese Macau
…and it became a constitutional part of Portuguese territory. Chinese sovereignty during this era was mainly nominal. Finally, in the aftermath of the 12-3 incident in 1966, the third was the transition period or post-colonial period, after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 until the handover in 1999. Wu Zhiliang…
Governor of Macau José Manuel Nobre de Carvalho signs a statement of apology under a portrait of Mao Zedong, January 29, 1967.
Ho Yin, Beijing's "unofficial representative" in Macau, with Mao Zedong in 1956