Portuguese Timor: Timeline

1975   Mário Lemos Pires, Governor of Portuguese Timor, abandons the capital Dili, following a UDT coup and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.

1975   Five Australia Australia

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n-based journalists are killed at Balibo by Indonesia Indonesia

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n forces, during an incursion into Portuguese Timor.

1975   Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal Portugal

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 as East Timor East Timor

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