evidence: When it handed over its last overseas territory, Macau, to Chinese administration in 1999, it brought to an end a long and sometimes turbulent era as a colonial power. [...] 1249 - The Reconquista ends with the capture of the Algarve and the expulsion of the last Moorish settlements on the southern coast. [...] 1908 - King Carlos and eldest son assassinated in Lisbon. Second son Manuel becomes king.