Macau: Timeline

1277   Some 50,000 leaders and citizens of the Southern Song Dynasty of China China

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 become the first recorded inhabitants of Macau, as they seek refuge from the invading Mongol Empire Mongol Empire

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. They also stayed for a short period in Kowloon. Some hundred years later the place where they stayed became Sung Wong Toi.

1557   The Portuguese settle in Macau

1680   First Portuguese Portugal

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 governor Governor

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 appointed to Macau

1966   Anti-Portuguese demonstrations occur in Macau; a curfew Curfew

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 is declared the next day.

1987   Portugal Portugal

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 and China People's Republic of China

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 sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.

1999   Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal Portugal

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.