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In what year was Macau handed over from Portugal to China?

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1999 uint256

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the four-digit calendar year, as a number
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www.fmprc.gov.cn, ap news, ‘china’s xi swears in new leader of casino hub macao, telling the city to diversify economy’: https://apnews.com/article/macao-handover-china-portugal-25th-anniversary-384759d1f46a32d122ba656bb9eaa3c4, apnews.com, assembleia legislativa da região administrativa especial de macau (macao legislative assembly), sino-portuguese joint declaration, https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration, assembleia legislativa da região administrativa especial de macau, sino-portuguese joint declaration (portuguese text), https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration, assembleia legislativa da região administrativa especial de macau, sino-portuguese joint declaration: https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration, australian government department of foreign affairs and trade, macau brief: https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/macau/macau-brief, bo.dsaj.gov.mo, britannica, "macau" (britannica.com/place/macau): macau was handed over from portugal to china on december 20, 1999., britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/macau, en.wikipedia.org, encyclopaedia britannica (britannica.com), article "macau", history section describing the december 20, 1999 handover of sovereignty from portugal to china, encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (article on the history of macau), stating the handover of sovereignty from portugal to china occurred on december 20, 1999, encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (britannica.com), which documents the december 20, 1999 handover of macau from portugal to china., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (britannica.com/place/macau) — states portugal handed sovereignty of macau to china on december 20, 1999., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (britannica.com/place/macau), and the macao special administrative region government's official history page, both stating the handover from portugal to china occurred on december 20, 1999., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (britannica.com/place/macau), which states macau was returned to chinese sovereignty on december 20, 1999., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (britannica.com/place/macau), which states macau was transferred from portuguese to chinese sovereignty on december 20, 1999, encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (britannica.com/place/macau): "macau was returned to china ... on december 20, 1999.", encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (history section), https://www.britannica.com/place/macau -- states macau was returned to chinese sovereignty on december 20, 1999, ending portuguese administration., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (https://www.britannica.com/place/macau) — states macau was handed over from portugal to china on december 20, 1999., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (https://www.britannica.com/place/macau), stating the handover of macau from portugal to china occurred on december 20, 1999., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (https://www.britannica.com/place/macau), which states macau was returned to chinese sovereignty on december 20, 1999, ending portuguese administration., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" (https://www.britannica.com/place/macau), which states macau's sovereignty was handed over from portugal to china on december 20, 1999., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" article, history section (britannica.com/place/macau), encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" article, history section: macau was handed over by portugal to china on december 20, 1999, ending over 400 years of portuguese administration., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" entry (britannica.com/place/macau), corroborated by the sino-portuguese joint declaration text on the macau legislative assembly site (al.gov.mo), encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" entry (https://www.britannica.com/place/macau), which states macau's sovereignty was handed over from portugal to china on december 20, 1999., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" entry (macau history section): macau was returned to chinese sovereignty by portugal on 20 december 1999, ending over 400 years of portuguese administration., encyclopaedia britannica, "macau" entry: https://www.britannica.com/place/macau - states macau was returned to chinese sovereignty on december 20, 1999, ending portuguese administration., encyclopaedia britannica, 'macau' (britannica.com/place/macau), which states macau was returned to chinese sovereignty on december 20, 1999, ending portuguese administration., encyclopaedia britannica, 'macau' (https://www.britannica.com/place/macau), which states macau's administration reverted from portugal to china on december 20, 1999., encyclopaedia britannica, 'macau' article, history section: sovereignty over macau transferred from portugal to china on december 20, 1999, encyclopaedia britannica, 'macau: history' - macau was returned to chinese sovereignty on 20 december 1999, ending portuguese colonial rule., encyclopaedia britannica, article on macau (history section), stating the handover of macau from portugal to china occurred on december 20, 1999., encyclopaedia britannica, entry "macau": https://www.britannica.com/place/macau - states macau's sovereignty transferred from portugal to china on december 20, 1999, encyclopaedia britannica, entry 'macau', section on the 1999 transfer of sovereignty from portugal to china (https://www.britannica.com/place/macau), encyclopaedia britannica, entry on macau (history section), stating portugal transferred sovereignty over macau to china on december 20, 1999, encyclopaedia britannica, entry on macau, history section covering the december 20, 1999 transfer of sovereignty from portugal to china, encyclopaedia britannica, entry on macau, which documents that macau's handover from portugal to china took place on december 20, 1999., encyclopædia britannica, "macau" (article on macau's history), which states macau was returned by portugal to china on december 20, 1999., macao legislative assembly (assembleia legislativa de macau), official text of the joint declaration of the government of the people's republic of china and the government of the portuguese republic on the question of macau, https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration — enumerations state the portuguese administration is responsible for macau until 19 december 1999 and that the prc resumes sovereignty over macau on 20 december 1999., macao legislative assembly, joint declaration: https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration, macao legislative assembly, sino-portuguese joint declaration (https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration); also widely documented by britannica: handover 20 december 1999, macao legislative assembly, sino-portuguese joint declaration (https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration); ministry of foreign affairs of the people's republic of china, resumption by china of the exercise of sovereignty over macao (https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zy/wjls/3604_665547/202405/t20240531_11367581.html), macao legislative assembly, sino-portuguese joint declaration on the question of macao, https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration (article 1 states china would resume sovereignty over macao from 20 december 1999)., macao legislative assembly, sino-portuguese joint declaration: https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration, macao special administrative region official gazette, joint declaration notice: https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/ii/2001/02/aviso03.asp?printer=1, macau legislative assembly, sino-portuguese joint declaration, https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration (article 1 states china would resume sovereignty over macau from 20 december 1999)., macau legislative assembly, sino-portuguese joint declaration: https://www.al.gov.mo/pt/joint-declaration, macau museum (official macao government museum), https://www.macaumuseum.gov.mo/(x(1)s(jii0jzn3oyll1ivwfpr0tr2w))/pt/collections/94967?aspxautodetectcookiesupport=1, macau museum, ‘pódios usados na cerimónia oficial’: https://www.macaumuseum.gov.mo/(x(1)s(jii0jzn3oyll1ivwfpr0tr2w))/pt/collections/94967?aspxautodetectcookiesupport=1, macau sar government, boletim oficial: https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/ii/2002/23/aviso42_cn.asp, ministry of foreign affairs of the people's republic of china, resumption by china of the exercise of sovereignty over macao: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zy/wjls/3604_665547/202405/t20240531_11367581.html, ministry of foreign affairs of the people's republic of china, resumption by china of the exercise of sovereignty over macao: https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/zy/wjls/3604_665547/202405/t20240531_11367581.html, ministry of foreign affairs of the people's republic of china, ‘resumption by china of the exercise of sovereignty over macao’: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zy/wjls/3604_665547/202405/t20240531_11367581.html, official gazette of the macao sar: https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/ii/2001/10/aviso19.asp, prc ministry of foreign affairs, ‘resumption by china of the exercise of sovereignty over macao’: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zy/wjls/3604_665547/202405/t20240531_11367581.html, the washington post archive, ‘china regains macau after 442 years’ (december 20, 1999): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/12/20/china-regains-macau-after-442-years/c1971622-beb8-49dd-9936-c871ae0d604d/, wikipedia, handover of macau (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/handover_of_macau): handover occurred at midnight on 20 december 1999, www.al.gov.mo, www.britannica.com, www.fmprc.gov.cn, www.gcs.gov.mo, www.loc.gov, www.macaumuseum.gov.mo, www.mfa.gov.cn, www.washingtonpost.com

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    #9111,999Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Macau: History' - Macau was returned to Chinese sovereignty on 20 December 1999, ending Portuguese colonial rule.
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