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Some Portuguese and Timorese voluntarily aided the allies with supplies or in combat but by 10 February 1943 all allied forces on Timor had been evacuated, along with some Portuguese. Although the island remained occupied by the Japanese, Portuguese governor Manuel Ferreira de Carvalho was left in charge of some internal administration.
In 1561, 15 Portuguese were killed in Hirado in a brawl with the Japanese, while a captain was killed in Akune, marking the first recorded clashes between Europeans and the Japanese (Miyanomae incident ). [9] Faced with such events, the Portuguese found it prudent to find a safer port to call.
Japan–Portugal relations are the current and historical diplomatic, cultural and trade relations between Japan and Portugal.The history of relations between the two nations goes back to the mid-16th century, when Portuguese sailors first arrived in Japan in 1543, and diplomatic relations officially restarted in the 19th century with the Treaty of Peace, Amity and Commerce.
Spanish-Portuguese conflict on China (1598–1600) Location: China (near Macau) Portuguese Empire. Macau; Portuguese India; Spanish Empire. El Piñal; Philippines; Victory. End of Spain's attempts to circumvent the restrictions placed on them from reaching China. Portuguese monopoly on the 16th century China trade seizured. Dutch–Portuguese ...
The Nossa Senhora da Graça incident (ノサ・セニョーラ・ダ・グラサ号事件), alternatively called the Madre de Deus incident (マードレ・デ・デウス号事件), was a four-day naval battle between a Portuguese carrack and Japanese samurai junks belonging to the Arima clan near the waters of Nagasaki in 1610.
Siege of Moji (1561) – A Portuguese carrack joins a Japanese battle in what became the first European naval bombardment on Japanese soil Battle of Fukuda Bay (1565) – A Japanese flotilla attacks a Portuguese carrack and fails to capture it in the first naval clash between Japan and the West
Occupation of Taiwan by Japan; Battle of Ganghwa (1875) Japan: Korea: Victory. Severe damage inflicted on Korean defenses; Southwestern War (1877) Japan: Shizoku clans from Satsuma Domain: Imperial victory. Shizoku rebellions were suppressed. The conscription system was established in Japan. First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) Japan China ...
The Battle of Sincouwaan [6] (traditional Chinese: 茜草灣之戰; simplified Chinese: 茜草湾之战; pinyin: Qiàncǎo Wān zhī Zhàn), also known as Battle of Veniaga Island (Portuguese: Batalha da Ilha da Veniaga), was a naval battle between the Ming dynasty coast guard and a Portuguese fleet led by Martim Afonso de Mello that occurred in 1522.