Search results for "Macao" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in Macao ... on the scene among the European powers. Macao has many similarities with ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 21:51, 31 January 2024
- boarded a second ship, the Trident, bound for Macao. Twenty-five years ... The Trident arrived in Macao on September 4, 1807. Immediately George ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- such as Hong Kong and nearby Portuguese Macao was never colonized, although ... Across the Bay, the Portuguese colony of Macao was already established ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- Various reports put the scarlet macaw (Ara macao), just outside the Pantanal ... **Ara macao : Scarlet macaw or aracanga **Ara chloroptera : Greenwing ...13 KB (1,794 words) - 10:43, 9 March 2023
- to introduce Christianity. Arriving in Macao in 1582, Ricci began learning ... 1579, he sent Father Michele de Ruggieri to Macao, a Portuguese trading post ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- In 1640, four Portuguese ambassadors who had gone from Macao to Nagasaki were called upon to renounce their faith, and when they refused they ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- then Jesuits, got permission to reside in Macao in 1578. Several religious ... colleague Michele Ruggieri (1543-1607) in Macao in August 1582. When Ricci ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- specifically with the Portuguese in Macao, should be reduced to a minimum ... de Tournon [the messenger] to be brought to Macao and forbade him to leave ...22 KB (3,410 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- ordered the Catholic missionary to be deported to Macao. The Governor reported the incident to Yongzheng, and requested that he instate a law deporting ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 17:48, 15 October 2020
- Calcutta, Chinese from Manila, and Portuguese from Macao. Ibid. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Sulu faced increasing competition ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- betting pastime also occurs, particularly in Macao. Crickets may also be eaten in some cultures, and are popular as live food for carnivorous pets. ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 00:20, 15 January 2023
- the Japanese. (See Battle of Timor.) Macao was also occupied by Japan. === Atlantic Charter === The Atlantic Charter was negotiated at the Atlantic ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- the Ming rule, the first European colony, Macao, was founded (1557). ... eastern shores and the Portuguese founded Macao, the first European settlement ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- missionary, Robert Morrison, arrived in Macao in 1807. Protestant and Catholic ... 1579, he sent Father Michele de Ruggieri to Macao, a Portuguese trading post ...58 KB (8,323 words) - 21:09, 10 December 2023
- were signed to return both Hong Kong and Macao to Chinese sovereignty. ... were signed to return both Hong Kong and Macao to Chinese sovereignty. Deng ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- when a failed effort to gain control of the Miss Macao, a seaplane of a Cathay Pacific subsidiary company, caused it to crash into the sea off Macau ...26 KB (3,897 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
- as well. Fights for land were fought as far away as Macao, East Indies, Ceylon, Formosa (Taiwan), the Philippines, Brazil, and others. The main of these ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- joined the Euro in 1999. The Asian dependency of Macao, after an agreement in 1986, was returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1999. Portugal applied international ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023