1640 Macau embassy to Nagasaki

When

6 Jul 1640 – 4 Aug 1640

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

61

Coordinates

32.75° N, 129.88° E

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

The 1640 Macau embassy to Nagasaki (ポルトガル使節団長崎受難事件) was a diplomatic mission dispatched by the Senate of Macau to Nagasaki in July 1640. Its purpose was to try and reverse the Tokugawa shogunate's decision to end nearly a century of Portuguese trade in Japan in 1639.

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