Portuguese Macao: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

The territory of Portuguese Macau, located in southern China, was first leased to Portugal as a trading post by the Ming dynasty in 1557. Portugal paid an annual rent and administered the territory under Chinese sovereignty until 1887. Portugal later gained perpetual colonial rights in the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking.