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Passaleão incident 1849

Passaleão incident: Chinese encampment near Macao
Image: Drawn by Auguste Borget, lithograph by Eugene Ciceri, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.

Key facts

Date25 August 1849Wikidata
Year1849Wikidata P585 (point in time)
Era19th century (1800–1913)derived from year
LocationMacauNatural Earth (modern borders)
ContinentAsiaNatural Earth
ParticipantsPortuguese Empire, Qing dynastyWikidata P710
Coordinates22.2147, 113.5489Wikidata P625

About the battle

The Passaleão incident (Chinese: 關閘事件), also known as the Battle of Passaleão (or Pak Shan Lan) or Baishaling incident, was a conflict between Portugal and China over Macau in August 1849. The Chinese were defeated in the only military confrontation, but the Portuguese called off further punitive measures after a naval explosion killed about 200 sailors.

Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Passaleão incident (revision 1370702755), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; formatting and citations removed. No text added.

Location

22.2147, 113.5489 · Macau

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