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    in the Wanshan Archipelago (or Ladrones Archipelago) off Macau on 27 January 1799. The incident took place in the context of the East Indies campaign of...
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    Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With a population of about 710,000 people and a land area of 32.9 km2...
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    Macau is a special administrative region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. It was leased to Portugal in 1557 as a trading post in exchange for...
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    of the Two Sicilies flees. January 27 – French Revolutionary Wars: Macau Incident – French and Spanish warships encounter a British Royal Navy escort...
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  • theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1801) Raid on Manila Macau Incident (1799) Part of French Revolutionary Wars Location: Asia–Pacific French...
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    1790s (redirect from 1790-1799)
    "seventeen-nineties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1790, and ended on December 31, 1799. Considered as some of the Industrial Revolution's earlier days, the 1790s...
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    under Captain Pulteney Malcolm for the final voyage to Macau. The convoy arrived without incident on 13 December 1797, although the crews had been substantially...
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    The first John Adams was originally built in 1799 as a frigate for the United States Navy, converted to a corvette in 1809, and later converted back to...
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    Manila of 1798 and led the combined squadron at the inconclusive Macau Incident of 1799. He would not return to Cadiz until 1803. By then he was a teniente...
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    1557 when the Portuguese Empire leased an outpost from the Ming dynasty in Macau. Other European nations soon followed the Portuguese lead, inserting themselves...
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    Navy as HMS Virginie. In January 1799, Virginie was with British squadron at the defence of Macau during the Macau Incident. On 20 May 1808, she captured...
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  • first detailed description of the flora and fauna of Japan. Hendrik Doeff (1799, Dutch Republic) former Dutch East India Company ("VOC") Opperhoofd (Chief...
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    The outlaw years: the history of the land pirates of the Natchez trace, Macau lay Company, 1930. Jackson, Shadrach L. The life of Logan Belt he noted...
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    was LHT under Japanese colonization from 1895–1945. Portuguese Macau (present-day Macau) remained LHT, along with British Hong Kong, despite being transferred...
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    Company convoy gathering in the Pearl River in January 1799, but in the ensuing Macau Incident they were driven off by the Royal Navy escort squadron...
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    subordinate bishops in Cochin and Malacca. Further sees were later opened in Macau in 1576 and in Funai in 1588. Religious Orders of the Augustinians, Franciscans...
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  • Location: China (Macau) Portugal Portuguese Macau Chinese rebels Victory Baishaling Incident (1849) Location: China (Macau) Portugal Portuguese Macau China Victory...
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    States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price...
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    Mainland China and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau are listed separately As a percentage of 475,884 persons who nominated their...
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    base for their evangelisation of Macau, and then for their important missionary campaigns into China and Japan. Macau eventually superseded St Paul's College...
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    Company directors List of trading companies East India Company Cemetery in Macau Anglo-Nepalese war (1814–1816) British Imperial Lifeline Carnatic Wars Commercial...
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    Portuguese obtained the de facto monopoly on the silk trade with China through Macau. The shōgun Iemitsu ordered the construction of the artificial island in...
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  • West America to Macau, offering 96 sea otter skins to cover expenses. He also asked Kendrick to sell 137 prime sea otter skins in Macau for him. Martínez...
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    8 September 1796 and in January 1799 was with the British squadron at the defence of Macau during the Macau Incident. On 7 May, 1800 she was anchored...
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    formally ending with the independence of the Portuguese Empire's last colony Macau in 1999. The empires introduced Western concepts of nation and the multinational...
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    attack on the China Fleet was eventually attempted in January 1799, but on arrival at Macau the combined Spanish squadron refused to engage the powerful...
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    Arniston (East Indiaman) (category Maritime incidents in 1815)
    December: Malacca 11 March 1796: Whampoa 23 April: Second Bar 29 June: Macau 20 November: St Helena 1 March 1797: Deptford While Arniston was at St Helena...
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    In February 1799 an attack by a combined French-Spanish squadron on the assembled convoy at Macau was driven off in the Macau Incident without combat...
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    the Macau Incident. After returning to Subaraya, Sercey set his flag on Preneuse and the squadron sailed for île de France. They arrived in May 1799, encountering...
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    December. With the mandatory help of a local pilot he took the Union first to Macau, then up the Pearl River to Whampoa anchorage near Canton. The Union remained...
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