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After the Portuguese were allowed to permanently settle in Macau, both Chinese and Portuguese merchants flocked to Macau, although the Portuguese were never numerous (numbering just 900 in 1583 and 1200 out of 26,000 in 1640).<ref>Porter, Jonathan. ''Macau, the Imaginary City: Culture and Society, 1557 to the Present''. Westview Press, 1999. {{ISBN|978-0-8133-3749-4}}</ref> It quickly became an important node in the development of Portugal's trade along three major routes: Macau–Malacca–Goa–Lisbon, Guangzhou–Macau–Nagasaki and Macau–Manila–Mexico. The Guangzhou–Macau–Nagasaki route was particularly profitable because the Portuguese acted as middlemen, shipping Chinese silks to Japan and Japanese silver to China, pocketing huge markups in the process. This already lucrative trade became even more so when Chinese officials handed Macau's Portuguese traders a monopoly by banning direct trade with Japan in 1547, due to piracy by Chinese and Japanese nationals.<ref name="TouristGuideHistory">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070520084736/http://www.macautouristguide.com/en/history.html|url=http://www.macautouristguide.com/en/history.html|archive-date=20 May 2007 |title=Macau – a unique city|publisher=Macau Tourist Guide|access-date=19 January 2015}}</ref>
In 1637, An English explorer [[John Weddell]] arrive at Macau.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://docslib.org/doc/10663912/the-british-presence-in-macau-1635-1793 | title=The British Presence in Macau, 1635–1793 }}</ref>
Macau's golden age coincided with the [[Iberian Union|union]] of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns, between 1580 and 1640. King [[Philip II of Spain]] was encouraged to not harm the status quo, to allow trade to continue between Portuguese Macau and Spanish Manila, and to not interfere with Portuguese trade with China. In 1587, Philip promoted Macau from "Settlement or Port of the Name of God" to "City of the Name of God" (Cidade do Nome de Deus de Macau).<ref>[[C. R. Boxer]], ''Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550–1770''. Martinus Nijhoff (The Hague), 1948. p. 4</ref>
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[[File:Cidade do Nome De Deus Nao Ha Outra Mais Leal.jpg|thumb|The full title awarded to Macau by King [[Joao IV]] is still displayed to this day inside the [[Leal Senado]], though the building and emblem itself date from the 19th century.]]
[[File:Le port de Macao en 1787 expedition La Perouse.jpg|thumb|Macao harbour, 1787]]
[[File:View of the Praya Grande, Macau, unknown artist, Guangzhou, China, c. 1830, oil on canvas - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07303.jpg|thumb|View of the Praia Grande, Macau, unknown artist,
In 1637, increasing suspicion of the intentions of Spanish and Portuguese Catholic missionaries in Japan finally led the ''[[shōgun]]'' to seal Japan off from foreign influence. Later named the [[sakoku]] period, this meant that no Japanese were allowed to leave the country (or return if they were living abroad), and no foreign ship was allowed to dock in a Japanese port. An exception was made for the Protestant Dutch, who were allowed to continue to trade with Japan from the confines of a small man-made island in Nagasaki, [[Deshima]]. Macau's most profitable trade route, that between Japan and China, had been severed. The crisis was compounded two years later by the loss of Malacca to the Dutch in 1641, damaging the link with Goa.
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After China ceded Hong Kong to the British in 1842, Macau's position as a major regional trading centre declined further still because larger ships were drawn to the deep-water port of [[Victoria Harbour]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mirza, Rocky M.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1117312614|title=Understanding the global shift, the popularity of Donald Trump, Brexit and discontent in the West : rise of the emerging economies: 1980 to 2018|year=2019|isbn=978-1-4907-9327-6|location=[Bloomington, IN]|oclc=1117312614}}</ref> In 1846, Portugal dispatched [[João Maria Ferreira do Amaral]] to serve as governor of Macau.<ref name=":132">{{Cite book |last=Simpson |first=Tim |title=Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution |date=2023 |publisher=[[University of Minnesota Press]] |isbn=978-1-5179-0031-1 |series=Globalization and Community series |location=Minneapolis}}</ref>{{Rp|page=81}} He unilaterally declared Macau a Portuguese colony, stopped annual rent payments to China, occupied the nearby Island of [[Taipa]] (which had never been Portuguese territory), and imposed a new series of taxes on Macau residents.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=81}} In 1846, there was a [[Revolt of the Faitiões|revolt of the boatmen]] that was put down.
While supervising road construction, Amaral ordered the destruction of Chinese tombs in the area. In the [[Passaleão incident|Baishaling incident]], Amaral was ambushed and killed by a group of Chinese villagers he encountered while riding outside the city gates.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=81}} The Portuguese responded with a surprise attack on a nearby Chinese fort, forcing the Chinese to retreat.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=81}} This was a milestone in the Portugal's assertion of sovereignty over Macau.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|pages=
In 1871, the [[Hospital Kiang Wu]] was founded as a traditional Chinese medical hospital. It was in 1892 that doctor [[Sun Yat-sen]] brought Western medicine services to the hospital.<ref name=GovernmentPublication>As published on IACM Macau government publication "Footprints of Painter Gao Jianhu"</ref>
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Unlike in the case of [[Portuguese Timor]], which was occupied by the Japanese in 1942 along with Dutch Timor, the Japanese respected Portuguese neutrality in Macau, but only up to a point.<ref name=MacauDailyInterview1/> As such, Macau enjoyed a brief period of economic prosperity, being the only neutral port in South China, after the Japanese had occupied Guangzhou (Canton) and [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]. In August 1943, Japanese troops seized the British steamer ''Sian'' in Macau and killed about 20 guards. The next month, they demanded the installation of Japanese "advisors" under the alternative of military occupation. The result was that a virtual Japanese [[protectorate]] was created over Macau.
On June 26, 1942, a [[Hawker Hart|Hawker Osprey III]] (6) of [[Portuguese Naval Aviation|Aeronáutica Naval]] crashed into a residential area in Macau, killing both occupants as well as one person on the ground.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Accident Hawker Ospray III 6
Having been neutral during World War II, Portugal was not a signatory to the 1944 [[Bretton-Woods Agreement|Bretton Woods Agreement]].<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=87}} Combined with its geographical location, this meant that Macau was an ideal hub for the illicit gold trade among those seeking to avoid the price controls on gold imposed by the Bretton Woods Agreement.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=87}} Following the 1971 U.S. abandonment of the Bretton Woods System through the [[Nixon shock]], Macau's significance to the gold trade declined, and its illicit gold trade ended in 1974.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=88}}
When it was discovered that neutral Macau was planning to sell aviation fuel to Japan, aircraft from the ''[[USS Enterprise (CV-6)|USS Enterprise]]'' bombed and strafed the hangar of the Naval Aviation Centre on 16 January 1945 to destroy the fuel. American air raids on targets in Macau were also made on 25 February and 11 June 1945. Following Portuguese government protest in 1950, the United States paid US$20,255,952 compensation to the government of Portugal.<ref>p.116 Garrett, Richard J. ''The Defences of Macau: Forts, Ships and Weapons Over 450 Years'' Hong Kong University Press, 1 February 2010</ref>
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In 1962, the gambling industry of Macau saw a major breakthrough when the government granted the ''[[Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau]]'' (STDM), a syndicate jointly formed by Hong Kong and Macau businessmen, the monopoly rights to all forms of gambling. The STDM introduced western-style games and modernised the marine transport between Macau and Hong Kong, bringing millions of gamblers from Hong Kong every year.<ref name="Macau economy">{{cite book |title=The Macau Economy|last=Chan|first=S. S.|year=2000|publisher=Publications Centre, University of Macau|location=Macau|isbn=99937-26-03-6}}</ref>
Riots broke out in 1966 during the [[Cultural Revolution]], when local Chinese and the Macau authority clashed, the most serious one being the [[12-3 incident]].<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=84}} This was prompted by government delays in approving a new wing for a Communist Party elementary school in Taipa.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=84}} The school board illegally commenced construction. the colonial government sent police to stop the workers, and several people were injured in the conflict.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=84}} On December 3, 1966, two days of rioting occurred in which hundreds were injured and six<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=84}} to eight people were killed, leading also to a total climbdown by the Portuguese government.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kebmyB-5-IYC&q=de+facto&pg=PA34 ''Portugal, China and the Macau Negotiations, 1986–1999''], Carmen Amado Mendes, Hong Kong University Press, 2013, page 34</ref>
[[File:12-3 Incident Apology.jpg|thumb|220px|The Portuguese governor of Macau signing a statement of apology under a portrait of Mao Zedong.]]
On 29 January 1967, the Portuguese governor, José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho, with the endorsement of Portuguese prime minister Salazar, signed a statement of apology at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, under a portrait of [[Mao Zedong]], with [[Ho Yin]], the chamber's president, presiding.<ref name="Maxwell">[https://books.google.com/books?id=99mDi7KYa1oC&dq=kuomintang+macau+1967&pg=PA279 ''Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321220809/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=99mDi7KYa1oC&lpg=PA279&ots=1ElNjmIq6u&dq=kuomintang%20macau%201967&pg=PA279#v=onepage&q=kuomintang%20macau%201967&f=false |date=21 March 2016 }}, Kenneth Maxwell, Psychology Press, 2003, page 279</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A guerra e as respostas militar e política 5.Macau: Fim da ocupação perpétua (War and Military and Political Responses 5.Macau: Ending Perpetual Occupation) |url=http://media.rtp.pt/descolonizacaoportuguesa/pecas/macau-fim-da-ocupacao-perpetua/ |website=RTP.pt |publisher=RTP |access-date=1 January 2020}}</ref>
Two agreements were signed, one with Macau's Chinese community, and the other with mainland China. The latter committed the government to compensate local Chinese community leaders with as much as 2 million [[Macanese pataca|Macau pataca]]s and to prohibit all [[Kuomintang]] activities in Macau.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=85}} This move ended the conflict, and relations between the government and the leftist organisations remained largely peaceful.<ref>{{
This success in Macau encouraged leftists in Hong Kong to "do the same", leading to riots by leftists in Hong Kong in 1967.
After the 1974 [[Carnation Revolution]] overthrew the dictatorship of [[Marcelo Caetano]], Portugal began a formal process of decolonization.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=85}} Over the next several years, it made two offers to return the Macau and China rejected both.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=85}} In 1979, Portugal and China established formal diplomatic relations and reached a secret agreement to characterize Macau as a Chinese territory under Portuguese administration.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=85}}
In 1994, the [[Ponte de Amizade|Bridge of Friendship]] was completed, the second bridge connecting Macau and Taipa.<ref name=MacauMuseum/>
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In 1997, the [[Estádio Campo Desportivo|Macau Stadium]] was completed in Taipa.<ref name=MacauMuseum/>
Over a three year period in the late 1990s, as wave of gang violence referred to as the casino wars occurred in Macau.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=11}} The casino wars were largely attributable to rival [[Triad (organized crime)|Triad]] groups who sought to gain control of Macau's illicit industries before Portugal transferred the territory back to China.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=11}} The Portuguese authorities of Macau mostly failed to address the violence, which resulted in 122 deaths, or to catch those responsible.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=11}}
==1999: Handover to the People's Republic of China==
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The PRC has promised that, under its "[[one country, two systems]]" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be practised in Macau and that Macau will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defence affairs until, at least, 2049, fifty years after the handover.
Upon the handover of Macau [[Western imperialism in Asia|European colonisation of Asia]] ended.
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On 12 December 2019, Macau officially opened its first rail transit system: the [[Macau Light Rapid Transit]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3041762/macaus-long-delayed-light-rail-service-begins-carrying-passengers|title=Macau's long-delayed light rail or tram service begins carrying passengers|website=South China Morning Post|access-date=23 December 2019}}</ref>
Overall, Macau was among the safest places in the world during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Macau|COVID-19 pandemic]], with relatively few infections and a large array of medical, social, and financial response measures.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=298}} Macau's casino-reliant economy was greatly slowed by the pandemic.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=298}}
==See also==
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* Shipp, Steve: ''Macau, China: A Political History of the Portuguese Colony's Transition to Chinese Rule''
* {{cite book|last=Clayton|first=Cathryn|editor1-first=Bryna|editor1-last=Goodman|editor2-first=David|editor2-last=Goodman|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203125458/chapters/10.4324/9780203125458-18|chapter=The hapless imperialist? Portuguese rule in 1960s Macau|title=Twentieth Century Colonialism and China|edition=1|year=2012|publisher=[[Routledge]]|doi=10.4324/9780203125458|isbn=978-0-203-12545-8}}
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