# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vicente-nicolau-de-mesquita
# Generated: 2026-08-16T13:58:24.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vicente-nicolau-de-mesquita"
name: "Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita"
slug: "vicente-nicolau-de-mesquita"
description: "Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita was an officer of the Portuguese Army in Macau. He is widely remembered for his role at the Portuguese attack of Baishaling, in 1849. He was the oldest of the five children of noted Macanese lawyer Frederico Albino de Mesquita and Clara Esmeralda Carneiro – both Macau natives. He married twice: first to Balbina Maria da Silveira; second to his sister-in-law Carolina Maria Josefa da Silveira."
tagline: "Macanese hero (1818-1880)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mesquita-portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1818-07-09"
deathDate: "1880-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.821564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Nicolau_de_Mesquita"
    title: "Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Nicolau_de_Mesquita"
    title: "Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%8E%E5%A3%AB%E5%9F%BA%E6%89%93"
    title: "美士基打"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%8E%E5%A3%AB%E5%9F%BA%E6%89%93"
    title: "美士基打"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7925183"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump