Timeline of Philippine History

Timeline Timeline of Philippine history From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation navigation,, search of  Philippine history , comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events This is a timeline of Philippine in the Philippines and their predecessor states.

See also: History of the Philippines See also: List of the oldest schools in the Philippines See also: list of Presidents of the Philippines This is an incomplete list   , which may never be able abl e to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with it with reliably sourced entries. sourced entries. Centuries : 9th · 10th · 11th · 12th · 13th · 14th · 15th · 16th · 17th · 18th · 19th · 20th · 21st

10th century Year

Date

900

Event

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End of prehistory. Laguna Copperplate Inscription, Inscription, the earliest known Philippine document, is written in the Manila area in Kawi script. script. Rise of Indianized of Indianized Kingdom of Tondo around Manila Bay. Bay.

11th century Year

Date

Event

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1000

People from Southern Annam called Orang Dampuan establish trade zones in Sulu

1001

Song Shih document records tributary delegation from the Buddhist Kingdom of  Butuan on 17 March.

12th century Year

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1175

Event

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Kingdom of Namayan reaches its peak.

13th century Year

Date

1240

Event

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Tuan Masha'ika, Masha'ika, an Arab Arab,, travels and introduces Islam to Sulu Sulu..

14th century Year

Date

Event

1380

Karim Al-Makhdum arrives in Jolo and builds a Mosque Mosque..

1400

Birth of the Baybayin Baybayin,, Hanunoo Hanunoo,, Tagbanwa Tagbanwa,, and Buhid scripts from Brahmi Brahmi..

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15th century Year

Date

1457

Event

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Sultanate of Sulu founded by Sharif Al-Hashim. Al-Hashim.

16th century Year

Date

1500 1521

Event

Rise of Kingdom of Kingdom of Maynila under the Bolkiah dynasty Ferdinand Magellan lands on Homonhon with three small ships, named the 16 March Concepcion, Trinidad and Victoria. Magellan calls the place the Arcigelago the Arcigelago de San Lazaro since March 16 is the feast day of Saint Lazarus 28 March Magellan reaches the Philippines 29 March Blood Compact between Magellan and Rajah Kulambo of Limasawa 31 March The first mass on Philippine soil is celebrated. 7 April

Magellan meets Rajah Humabon of Cebu of Cebu and enters into another Blood Compact. Humabon and his wife are baptized are baptized into the Catholic Church. Church.

27 April

Magellan is killed by Lapu-Lapu in the battle the battle of Mactan. Mactan.

1525

Spain sends an expedition under Juan under Juan Garcia Jofre de Loaysa to the Philippines. The Loaysa Expedition failed

1526

Spain sends another expedition under Juan under Juan Cabot to the Philippines. The Cabot Expedition also failed

1527

Spain sends a fourth expedition under Alvaro under Alvaro de Saavedra to the Philippines.

1529

Saavedra's expedition returns to Spain without Saavedra who died on the way home.

1536

The Loaysa expedition returns to Spain. Sp ain. One of its survivors is Andres de Urdaneta, its chronicler.

1543

Spain sends a fifth expedition under Ruy under Ruy López de Villalobos to the Philippines. The Expedition succeeds 2 February

1565 13 February 8 May

Villalobos arrives in the Philippines and names the islands of Samar  of Samar and and Leyte as Las Islas Filipinas in honor of the crown prince of Spain, Philip of Asturias Miguel López de Legazpi arrives in the Philippines with four ships and 380 men Legazpi established the first permanent Spanish settlement in the country Philippines was governed as a territory of the Vicero yalty of New Spain.

1567

Dagami Revolt (1567)

1568

The Portuguese, under the command of General Gonzalo de Pereira, attack Cebu and blockade its port.

1570

The Portuguese again attack the colony and are repulsed. May

1571 19 May 24 June 1572 20 August

Legaspi sends an expedition under the leadership of Martin de Goiti to Manila. The ruler of Manila, Rajah Suliman, wages war against the Spaniards Legaspi establishes the Spanish Colonial Government in Manila and proclaims it the capital of the colony Legazpi dies and Guido de Lavezaris succeeds him as Governor-General (15721575)

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1574 23 The Chinese pirate captain Limahong attacks Manila but fails  November  2 Limahong again attacks Manila with 1500 soldiers but again fails to defeat the December  Spaniards December Lakandula leads a short revolt against the Spanish. 1575

Ciudad de Nueva Cáceres(later renamed as Naga City) established by Captain Pedro de Sanchez 25 August Francisco de Sande appointed Governor-General (1575-1580)

1579

Diocese of Manila established

1580 April

Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñaloza appointed Governor-General (1580-1583) King Philip II of Spain becomes King of Portugal, ending the Portuguese harassment of the Philippines The Spaniards institute forced labor on all male natives aged 16 to 60.

1583 10 March Diego Ronquillo appointed Governor-General (1583-1584) August

A great fire destroys Manila

1584 16 May

Santiago de Vera appointed Governor-General (1584-1590)

1585

Pampangos Revolt (1585)

1587

Conspiracy of the Maharlikas (1587-1588)

1589

Revolts Against the Tribute (1589)

1590

Missionaries from the Society of Jesus established the Colegio de Manila in Intramuros. 1 June

Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas appointed Governor-General (1590-1593)

1592

Miguel de Benavides's Doctrina Christiana in Chinese published

1593

Doctrina Christiana in Spanish and Tagalog published October 

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Pedro de Rojas appointed Governor-General (1593)

3 Luis Pérez Dasmariñas appointed Governor-General (1593-1596) December  1595

Diocese of Manila raised to an Archbishopric Diocese of Nueva Segovia established. Diocese of Caceres established. Diocese of Cebu established. Colegio de San Ildefonso founded in Cebu

1596

Magalat Revolt (1596) 14 July

Francisco de Tello de Guzmán appointed Governor-General (1596-1602)

1598

Colegio de Santa Potenciana, the first school for girls in the Philippines, established

1600

Pedro Bucaneg inscribes the oral epic Biag ni Lam-ang

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17th century Year

1600

Date

Event

The Dutch attacks the archipelago in a tactical offensive during the European war   between Spain and the Netherlands Bandala System is formed by the Spanish Colonial Government

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The Galleon trade between Manila and Acapulco, Mexico begins. 1601

Igorot Revolt (1601). 1 August

1602

Colegio de San Jose is established Chinese revolt of 1602

May

Pedro Bravo de Acuña appointed Governor-General (1602-1606).

1606 24 June

Cristóbal Téllez de Almanza appointed Governor-General (1606-1608) by the Audiencia Real.

1608 15 June

Rodrigo de Vivero y Velasco appointed Governor-General (1608-1609).

1609 April

Juan de Silva appointed Governor-General (1609-1616).

1611 28 April

University of Santo Tomas established as the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario (later renamed the Colegio de S anto Tomas).

1616 19 April

Andrés Alcaraz appointed Governor-General (1616-1618) by the Audiencia Real.

1618 3 July

Alonso Fajardo de Entenza appointed Governor-General (1618-1624).

1619

University of Santo Tomas, then known as Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santissimo Rosario, recognized by the Holy See.

1620

Colegio de San Juan de Letran established as the Colegio de Huerfanos de San Pedro y San Pablo.

1621

The Colegio de Manila raised to the status of a University and renamed as the Universidad de San Ignacio by Pope Gregory XV.

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Tamblot Revolt (1621-1622) Bankaw Revolt (1621-1622) 1624

July

Jeronimo de Silva appointed Governor-General (1624-1625) by the Audiencia Real.

July

Fernando de Silva appointed Governor-General (1624-1626).

1625

Isneg Revolt (1625-1627)

1626 29 June

Juan Niño de Tabora appointed Governor-General (1626-1632).

1627

University of Santo Tomas, then Colegio de Santo Tomas, authorized to confer  degrees by Pope Urban VIII.

1632

22 July

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Lorenzo de Olaza appointed Governor-General (1632-1633) by the Audiencia Real. Colegio de Santa Isabel established

1633 29 August Juan Cerezo de Salamanca appointed Governor-General (1632-1635). 1635 25 June

Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera appointed Governor-General (1635-1644).

1639

Cagayan Revolt (1639)

1640

Universidad de San Felipe de Austria established as the first Public University in the Philippines

1643

Universidad de San Felipe de Austria closed down

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Ladia Revolt (1643) 1644 11 August Diego Fajardo Chacón appointed Governor-General (1644-1653). 1645

The Colegio de Santo Tomas raised to the status of a university and renamed as University of Santo Tomas by Pope Innocent X, upon the request of King Philip IV of Spain. Zambales Revolt (1645) Pampanga Revolt (1645)

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1647

Dutch besieged the Spanish in the Battle of Puerto de Cavite.

1649

Sumuroy Revolt (1649-50) Pintados Revolt (1649-50)

1653 25 July

Sabiniano Manrique de Lara appointed Governor-General (1653-1663).

1660

Zambal Revolt (1660) Maniago Revolt (1660) Malong Revolt (1660-1661)

1661

Ilocano Revolt (1661)

1662

Chinese revolt of 1662

1663 8 Diego de Salcedo appointed Governor-General (1663-1668). September  Tapar Revolt (1663) 1668

28 Juan Manuel de la Peña Bonifaz appointed Governor-General (1668-1669). September 

1669

24 Manuel de León appointed Governor-General (1669-1677). September 

1677 21 Francisco Coloma appointed Governor-General (1677) by the Audiencia Real. September  21 Francisco Sotomayor y Mansilla appointed Governor-General (1677-1678) by the September  Audiencia Real. 1678

28 Juan de Vargas y Hurtado appointed Governor-General (1678-1684). September 

1680 May 12

University of Santo Tomas placed under Royal Patronage by King Charles II of  Spain.

1681

Sambal Revolt (1681-1683)

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1684 24 August Gabriel de Curuzealegui y Arriola appointed Governor-General (1684-1689). 1686

Tingco plot (1686)

1689 April

Alonso de Avila Fuertes appointed Governor-General (1689-1690) by the Audiencia Real

1690 25 July

Fausto Cruzat y Gongora appointed Governor-General (1690-1701).

18th century Year

1701

Date

Event

8 Domingo Zabálburu de Echevarri appointed Governor-General (1701-1709). December 

1709 25 August Martín de Urzua y Arismendi appointed Governor-General (1709-1715). 4 February

Jose Torralba appointed Governor-General (1715-1717) by the Audiencia Real.

1717 9 August

Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda appointed Governor-General (1717-1719).

1718

Rivera Revolt (1718)

1719 11 October 

Archbishop Francisco de la Cuesta of Manila becomes acting Governor-General (1719-1721).

1715

Caragay Revolt (1719)

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1721 6 August Toribio José Cosio y Campo appointed Governor-General (1721-1729). 1722

Colegio de San Jose conferred with the title Royal.

1729 14 August Fernándo Valdés y Tamon appointed Governor-General (1729-1739). 1739 July

Gaspar de la Torre appointed Governor-General (1739-1745).

1744

Dagohoy Rebellion (1744-1829)

1745 21 Archbishop Juan Arrechederra of Manila becomes acting Governor-General September  (1745-1750). Agrarian Revolt (1745-1746) 1750 20 July

Jose Francisco de Obando y Solis appointed Governor-General (1750-1754).

1754 15 May

Mt Taal emits magma and destroys the towns of Lipa, Sala, Tanauan and Talisay.

26 July

Pedro Manuel de Arandia Santisteban appointed Governor-General (1754-1759).

1759 June

Miguel Lino de Ezpeleta appointed Governor-General (1759-1761).

1761 July

Archbishop Manuel Rojo del Rio y Vieyra of Manila Manilaappointed GovernorGeneral (1761-1762).

1762

Silang Revolt (1762-63) Palaris Revolt (1762-1765) Camarines Revolt (1762-1764) Cebu Revolt (1762-1764) British forces looted and plundered many of Manila establishments through the so-called Rape of Manila. 22 British fleet entered seizes Manila Bay as part of the Seven Years War  September  5 October  Manila fell under the British rule; start of the British occupation. Simón de Anda y Salazar appointed Governor-General (1762-17614) by the Real 6 October  Audiencia. Provisional Government established in Bacolor, Pampanga with de Anda as dictator. 2 The British East India Company commissioned The Rt Hon. Dawsonne Drake  November  became the first British governor-general of the Philippines until 1764.

1763

Dabo and Marayac Revolt (1763) Isabela Revolt (1763).

1764

10 February

Treaty of Paris implicitly returns Manila to Spain.

28 May

Deaths of Gabriela Silang, the only Filipina to have led a revolt, and her husband Diego.

17 March

de Anda hands over the control of the colonial government to Francisco Javier de la Torre, newly appointed Governor-General (1764-1765)

11 June

The last of the British ships that sailed to Manila leaves the Philippines for India, ending the British occupation.

10 February

Royal Fiscal of Manila Don Francisco Léandro de Viana writes the famous letter  to King Charles III of Spain, later called as "Viana Memorial of 1765". The document advised the king to abandon the colony due to the economic and social devastation created by the Seven Years' War . The suggestion was not heeded.

6 July

José Antonio Raón y Gutiérrez appointed Governor-General (1765-1770)

1765

Governor Raon orders the minting of parallelogramic-shaped coins called barrillas, the first coined minted in the Philippines.

1769 23 July

The Society of Jesus in the Philippines is expelled by Raón after receiving a dated later from Charles III's chief minister Don Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea on March 1, 1767. The Jesuit's Properties are confiscated by the Spanish Colonial Government

1770 July

Simón de Anda y Salazar appointed Governor-General (1770-1776)

1771

Moro pirates traveled all over the country and raids many fishing villages in Manila Bay, Mariveles, Parañaque, Pasay and Malate.

1774

9 Parishes secularized by order of King Charles III of Spain.  November 

1776

30 October 

Pedro de Sarrio appointed Governor-General (1776-1778)

1778 July

José Basco y Vargas appointed Governor-General (1778-1787)

1780

Real Sociedad Economica de los Amigos del Pais de Filipinas (Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Philippines) introduced in the Philippines to offer local and foreign scholarships and professorships to Filipinos, and financed trips of  scientists from Spain to the Philippines

1783

Bishop Mateo Joaquin de Arevalo of Cebu establishes the Colegio-Seminario de San Carlos(later renamed as the University of San Carlos) from the old building of the defunct Colegio de San Ildefonso, which was closed down in 1769 after the suppression of the Jesuits.

1785

Lagutao Revolt (1785). 20 May

1787

22 Pedro de Sarrio appointed Governor-General (1787-1788) September 

1788

1793

University of Santo Tomas granted Royal Title by King Charles III of Spain.

Ilocos Norte Revolt (1788). 2 April

Birth of the greatest Tagalog poet from Bulacan Francisco "Balagtas" Baltazar .

1 July

Félix Berenguer de Marquina appointed Governor-General (1788-1793)

1 Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León appointed Governor-General (1793September  1806)

19th century Year

Date

1805

Event

 Nueva Vizcaya Revolt (1805)

1806 7 August Mariano Fernández de Folgueras appointed Governor-General (1806-1810) 1807

Ambaristo Revolt (1807)

1808 May

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte installs his brother Joseph Bonaparte as King of Spain.

1809

22 January

1810 4 March

King Joseph Bonaparte gives Filipinos Spanish Citizenship and grants the colony representation in the Spanish Cortes Manuel Gonzalez de Aguilar appointed Governor-General (1806-1813)

1812 19 March The Spanish Cortes promulgates the Cadiz Constitution 24 The first Philippine delegates to the Spanish Cortes, Pedro Perez de Tagle and September  Jose Manuel Coretto take their oath of office in Madrid, Spain. 1813 4 José Gardoqui Jaraveitia appointed Governor-General (1806-1816) September 

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17 March The Cadiz Constitution implemented in Manila 16  Napoleon is defeated in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig October  Octoberr

British General Duke of Wellington drives the Napoleonic forces out of Spain

1814

Ferdinand VII proclaimed as King of Spain; Conservatives return to the Spanish Cortes

1815 18 June

Napoleon is defeated in Waterloo

15  Napoleon is exiled in St. Helena's Island October  1816

Cadiz Constitution is rejected by the conservative government and Filipino representation in the Spanish Cortes is abolished 10 Mariano Fernández de Folgueras appointed Governor-General (1816-1822) December 

1822

30 October 

Juan Antonio Martínez appointed Governor-General (1822-1825)

1825

14 October 

Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca appointed Governor-General (1825-1830)

1828

Earthquake strikes Manila destroying many of its buildings

1830 23 Pascual Enrile y Alcedo appointed Governor-General (1830-1835) December  Manila is opened to the world market 1835 1 March 23 April

Gabriel de Torres appointed Governor-General (1835) Joaquín de Crámer appointed Governor-General (1835)

9 Pedro Antonio Salazar Castillo y Varona appointed Governor-General (1835) September  Chamber of Commerce is formed 1837 27 August Andrés García Camba appointed Governor-General (1837-1838) Manila is made an open port. 1838 29 Luis Lardizábal appointed Governor-General (1838-1841) December   Florante at Laura is published. 1841

14 February

Marcelino de Oraá Lecumberri appointed Governor-General (1841-1843)

1843 17 June

Francisco de Paula Alcalá de la Torre appointed Governor-General (1843-1844)

1844 16 July

 Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa appointed Governor-General (1844-1849)

1849

26 Antonio María Blanco appointed Governor-General (1849-1850) December 

1850 29 July

Antonio de Urbistondo y Eguía appointed Governor-General (1850-1853)

1852

4 Glowing avalanche from Mt Hibok-Hibok. December 

1853

20 Ramón Montero y Blandino appointed Governor-General (1853-1854) December 

1854 2 February 28

Manuel Pavía y Lacy appointed Governor-General (1854) Ramón Montero y Blandino appointed Governor-General (1854)

October  20 Manuel Crespo y Cebrían appointed Governor-General (1854)  November  1856

5 Ramón Montero y Blandino appointed Governor-General (1856-1857) December 

1857

12 January

1859

Fernándo Norzagaray y Escudero appointed Governor-General (1857-1860) Jesuits return to the Philippines Jesuits takes over the Escuela Municipal and establishes the Ateneo Municipal

1860 12 January

Ramón María Solano y Llanderal appointed Governor-General (1860)

29 August Juan Herrera Dávila appointed Governor-General (1860-1861) 1861 2 February

José Lemery e Ibarrola Ney y González appointed Governor-General (18611862) Jose Rizal, Philippines' National Hero is born. Escuela de Artes Y Oficios de Bacolor established as Asia's oldest vocational school.

1862 7 July 9 July

Salvador Valdés appointed Governor-General (1862) Rafaél de Echagüe y Bermingham appointed Governor-General (1862-1865)

1863 3 June

An earthquake leaves Manila in ruins

1865

University of Santo Tomas made the center for public instruction throughout the Philippines by royal decree of Queen Isabella II of Spain.

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Observatorio Meteorológico del Ateneo Municipal de Manila (Manila Observatory) established by the Jesuits 24 March Joaquín del Solar e Ibáñez appointed Governor-General (1862-1865) 25 April 1866 13 July

Juan de Lara e Irigoyen appointed Governor-General (1862-1865) José Laureano de Sanz y Posse appointed Governor-General (1866)

21 Juan Antonio Osorio appointed Governor-General (1866) September  27 Joaquín del Solar e Ibáñez appointed Governor-General (1866) September  26 October 

José de la Gándara y Navarro appointed Governor-General (1866-1869) Colegio de Santa Isabel established in Naga by Bishop Francisco Gainza, OP of   Nueva Caceres, through the royal decree of Queen Isabella II of Spain.

1867

1869 17 Suez Canal opened  November  Colegio de Santa Isabel inaugurated as the first Normal School in Southeast Asia 7 June

Joaquín del Solar e Ibáñez appointed Governor-General (1866)

23 June

José de la Gándara y Navarro appointed Governor-General (1869-1871)

1871

The Gabinete de Fisica of the University of Santo Tomas established as the first Museum in the Philippines. The Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Santo Tomas is established as the first schools of Medicine and Pharmacy in the Philippines. 4 April

Rafael de Izquierdo y Gutíerrez appointed Governor-General (1871-1873)

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1872

200 Filipino soldiers stage a mutiny in Cavite. 17 February

Priests Mariano Gomez, José Apolonio Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora (together  known as Gomburza) are implicated in the Cavite Mutiny and executed.

1873 8 January Manuel MacCrohon appointed Governor-General (1873) 24 January

Juan Alaminos y Vivar appointed Governor-General (1873-1874)

1874 17 March Manuel Blanco Valderrama acting appointed Governor-General (1874) 18 June

The Colegio de San Jose incorporated into the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Santo Tomas.

1875 1877

José Malcampo y Monje appointed Governor-General (1874-1877)

28 February

Domingo Moriones y Murillo appointed Governor-General (1877-1880)

1880 20 March Rafael Rodríguez Arias appointed Governor-General (1880) 15 April

Fernando Primo de Riverae appointed Governor-General (1880-1883)(1st Term) Manila is connected through telegraphic cable Europe by Eastern Telecom.

18 July 1882 3 March 2 June

Two shocks of an earthquake create destruction from Manila to Santa Cruz, Luguna. Tremors continue until Aug 6 Jose Rizal leaves for Spain to continue his medical studies Jose Rizal begins writing the Noli Me Tangere(novel)

1883 10 March Emilio Molíns becomes acting Governor-General (1883). (First Term) 7 April 1884

Joaquín Jovellar appointed Governor-General (1883-1885) Required forced labor of 40 days a year is reduced to 15 days by the Spanish Colonial Government.

21 June 1885 1 April 4 April 1887 29 May October

Rizal finishes his medical studies in Spain Emilio Molíns becomes acting Governor-General (1885). (First Term) Emilio Terrero y Perinat appointed Governor-General (1885-1888)  Noli Me Tangere published. Rizal starts writing the El Filibusterismo The Manila School of Agriculture is established.

1888 10 March Antonio Molto becomes acting Governor-General (1888) Federico Lobaton becomed acting Governor-General (1888) Valeriano Wéyler appointed Governor-General (1888-1891) 10 La Solidaridad established December  1891 28 March Rizal finishes writing El Filibusterismo in Biarritz, France El Filibusterismo published in Ghent, Belgium Eulogio Despujol appointed Governor-General (1891-1893) 1892 26 June

Rizal arrives in the Philippines from Europe via Hong Kong

3 July

Rizal forms the La Liga Filipina

7 July

Rizal is arrested for establishing the La Liga Filipina

17 July

Rizal is exiled to Dapitan

1893 10 March Federico Ochando becomes acting Governor-General (1893) Ramón Blanco appointed Governor-General (1893-1896) 1894 8 July

Bonifacio forms the Katipunan

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1896

1 July

Rizal is recruited as a physician for the Spanish Army in Cuba by Governor  Ramon Blanco

6 August

Rizal returns to Manila from Cuba

19 August

The Katipunan discovered by the Spanish Colonial Government. Katipuneros flee to Balintawak 

23 August

Revolution is proclaimed by Bonifacio at the Cry of Balintawak. Katipuneros tear  up their cedulas

26 August

Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto and other Katipuneros board Rizal's ship to Barcelona. They offer his rescue but Rizal refused

Revolutionary Battle at San Juan del Monte. Governor Ramon Blanco proclaims 30 August a state of war in Manila, Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, Pampanga, Bulacan, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija. 2 Rizal Boards the ship Isla de Panay for Barcelona September  3 October Rizal arrives at Barcelona 4 October Rizal is imprisoned in Montjuich by order of Capt. Gen. Despujo 6 October Rizal returns to Manila as a prisoner  31 October 

A new group of the Katipunan is formed in Cavite headed by Emilio Aguinaldo

13 Rizal arrives in Manila and incarcerated in Fort Santiago  November  20 Rizal is interrogated for charges against the Spanish Colonial Government  November  13 Camilo Polavieja becomes acting Governor-General (1896-1897) December  30 Rizal is executed at Bagumbayan December  1897 22 March The Katipunan holds its election. Emilio Aguinaldo is elected as president 15 April

José de Lachambre becomes acting Governor-General (1897)

23 April

Fernando Primo de Rivera appointed Governor-General (1897-1898)

29 April

Katipuneros arrest Andres Bonifacio and his brothers Procopio and Ciriaco on orders of Aguinaldo with sedition and treason before a military court of the Katipunan.

8 May

The Katipunan convicts and sentences Bonifacio brothers to death

10 May

Andres Bonifacio and his brothers are executed at Mt. Buntis, Maragondon, Cavite.

31 May

Aguinaldo establishes a Philippine republican government in Biak-na-Bato, San Miguel, Bulacan.

10 August

Aguinaldo begins negotiating with the Spaniards colonial gov ernment in Manila with Pedro Paterno as representative.

15 August A 7.9 intensity estimated earthquake hits Luzon's northwest coast 1 Constitution of Biak-na-Bato ratified  November  14 Pact of Biak-na-Bato between Aguinaldo and Governor Primo de Rivera signed December  27

Aguinaldo is self-exiled to Hong Kong following the Pact of Biak-na-Bato

December  1898 8 February

The Katipunan is revived by Emilio Jacinto and Feliciano Jocson

11 April

Basilio Augustín appointed Governor-General (1898)

24 April

The US government promises support in exchange for his cooperation. Aguinaldo agrees

26 April

The US declares war on Spain.

1 May

Commodore George Dewey attacks Manila

19 May

Aguinaldo and his companions return to the Philippines from exile

24 May

Aguinaldo proclaims a dictatorial government and issues two decrees which show his trust and reliance in US protection

12 June

Aguinaldo proclaims Philippine Independence

23 June

Aguinaldo changes the dictatorial government to revolutionary government.

15 July

Aguinaldo creates a cabinet

15 July

The Malolos Congress in established

17 July

US reinforcements and troops arrive in the Philippines.

24 July

Fermín Jáudenes becomes acting Governor-General (1898)

13 August Francisco Rizzo becomes acting Governor-General (1898) 13 August Wesley Merritt appointed Military Governor (1898) 14 August The Spanish surrenders to the US after at mock battle of Manila 29 August Elwell S. Otis appointed Military Governor (1898-1900) September Diego de los Ríos becomes acting Governor-General (1898) 15 The Malolos Congress meets and elects its officers. September  Spain and the US sign the Treaty of Paris. Article III provides for the cession of  10 the Philippines to the US by Spain and the payment of 20 million dollars to Spain December   by the US. 21 US President McKinley issues the Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation December  1899 20 January

US President McKinley appoints the First Philippine Commission, known as the Schurrman Commission

21 January

The Malolos Constitution is promulgated by Aguinaldo.

23 January

The Malolos Republic government is inaugurated. Aguinaldo takes his oath of  office as President.

4 February

Hostilities break out between the Filipino and US forces.

6 February

The US Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Spain

4 March

The Schurrman Commission arrives in Manila

6 May

Aguinaldo creates a new cabinet

20 May

Aguinaldo's moves face opposition from Apolinario Mabini and Antonio Luna

5 June

Antonio Luna assassinated

1900 21 January

The Schurrman Commission returns to the US.

16 March

US President McKinley appoints the second P hilippine Commission, known as the Taft Commission

5 May

Arthur MacArthur, Jr appointed Military Governor (1900-1901)

3 June

The Taft Commission arrives in Manila

23 Partido Liberal established December 

20th century Year

1901

Date

2 March

Event

The Army Appropriation Act, also known as the Spooner Amendment, is  passed by the US Senate.

23 March

Aguinaldo is captured by US authorities.

1 April

Aguinaldo takes an oath of allegiance to the US.

17 June

El Colegio de San Beda established

4 July

Adna Chaffee appointed as the last US Military Governor (1901-1902)

4 July

A civil government is established in the Philippines with William Howard Taft as the first Civil Governor (1901-1904)

18 July

The US organizes the Philippine Constabulary

28 August

Silliman Institute, later known as Silliman University, is established as the first American university in the Philippines

September The first Filipino members of the second Philippine Commission are appointed 27 Guerillas, headed by the Filipino Captain Daza, attack the US military barracks September  in Balangiga, Samar  28 Balangiga massacre occurs September  20 October 

A U.S. Marine battalion arrives on Samar to conduct the March across Samar  operation

4 The Philippine Commission enacts the Sedition Law  November  14 An earthquake estimated of magnitude 7.8 shakes Lucena City. December  1902

January

The first labor union of The Country, Union de Litografose Impresores de Filipinas, is organized.

21 January

The Philippine Commission calls for the organization of P ublic Schools in the Philippines.

30 March

The US Marines leave Balangiga

16 April

General Miguel Malvar surrenders to the US forces

May

Governor Taft negotiates with Pope Leo XIII the sale of the friar lands in the Philippines

July

Philippine Commission passes the Philippine Organic Act

1 July

Cooper Act is passed by the US Senate. Philippine Assembly is established

4 July

Americans proclaim the end of the Philippine-American War , however fighting continues

17

Pope Leo XIII formally bestows a Pontifical title on the University of Santo

Reference

September  Tomas 12 Bandolerism Act passed by the Philippine Commission. All armed resistance  November  against US rule are considered banditry 1903 1904

Governor Taft enunciates the policy of The Philippines for the Filipinos 1 February Luke Edward Wright appointed as Civil Governor (1904-1905) 19 October 

1905 1906

The Manila Business School is renamed the Philippine School of Commerce (later the Polytechnic University of the Philippines).

3 Henry Clay Ide appointed as Civil Governor (1905-1906)  November  20 James Francis Smith appointed as Civil Governor (1906-1909) September  3 St. Scholastica's College established by the Benedictine Missionary Sisters of  December  Tutzing

1907

3 June

Centro Escolar University established as Centro Escolar de Señoritas.

30 June

First Congressional Elections held

1908

18 June

The University of the Philippines is established in Manila.

1911

27 January Mt Taal erupts, and kills 1,334 people 16 June

De La Salle University-Manila is founded as De La Salle College by the Brothers of Christian Schools.

28 Tricentennial of the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas December  1913

1  Newton W. Gilbert appointed as acting Civil Governor (1913) September  6 October  Francis Burton Harrison appointed as Civil Governor (1913-1921) Iglesia ni Cristo (largest independent church in Asia) is registered to the government.

1914

27 July

1916

16 October The Jones Law is passed establishing an all-Filipino legislature Manuel Quezon elected Senate President while Sergio Osmenna is elected as 16 October  House Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of the Philippines

1917 1921

11 January The first cabinet of Filipinos under the US regime is organized. 10 March

Ambos Camarines Dissolved; Split into Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur .

5 March

Charles Yeater appointed as acting Civil Governor (1921)

14 October  Leonard Wood appointed as Civil Governor (1921-1927) 1927

7 August

Eugene Allen Gilmore appointed as acting Civil Governor (1927)

27 Henry L. Stimson appointed as Civil Governor (1927-1929) December  1929

23 February

Eugene Allen Gilmore appointed as acting Civil Governor (1929)

8 July

Dwight F. Davis appointed as Civil Governor (1929-1932)

1930

30 The Communist Party of the Philippines is formally established  November 

1932

9 January

George C. Butte appointed as acting Civil Governor (1932)

29 February

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. appointed as Civil Governor (1932-1933)

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20 June

Adamson School of Industrial Chemistry (ASIC) later known as Adamson University was founded by George Lucas Adamson

The Communist Party of the Philippines 26 is declared October  illegal by the Supreme Court 1933 1934

1935

15 July

Frank Murphy appointed as the last Civil Governor of the Philippines (19331935)

24 March

The Tydings-McDuffie Law, known as the Philippine Independence Law, is approved by US President Roosevelt.

10 July

202 delegates are elected to the Constitutional Convention in accordance with the Tydings-McDuffie Law

30 July

The Philippine Constitutional Convention is inaugurated

8 February The Constitutional Convention creates a new constitution 15 February

The Philippine Constitution is signed

14 May

The Philippine electorate ratifies the Constitution in a referendum

17 Manuel Quezon elected President in the first Philippine Presidential elections September  15 The Philippine Commonwealth is inaugurated  November  15 The Office of Civil Governor is abolished  November  1941

11 Manuel Quezon re-elected as President  November  8 Start of the Japanese Invasion of the Philippines December  20 President Quezon, his family and the war cabinet move to Corregidor Island December  26 General MacArthur declares Manila an open city December  28 Filipino and US armies retreat to Bataan December  30 Manuel Quezon takes his oath of Office at the Corregidor Island December 

1942

2 January

Japanese troops enters Manila

3 January

Masaharu Homma appointed as Japanese Military Governor (1942)

3 January

General Masaharu Homma declares the end of American Rule in the Philippines

3 January

Martial Law declared

13 January

All forms of opposition against the Japanese forces declared subject to death  penalty

23 January

An executive committee, composed of Filipinos, is formed b y General Homma as a conduit of the military administration's policies and requirements.

17 February

The Japanese Military Government issues an order adopting the Japanese educational system in The Country

20 February

President Quezon and the war cabinet leave for the US

11 March

General MacArthur leaves for Australia to take command o f the South Western Pacific Area

13 March

The Commonwealth government is moved to the US

29 March

The People's Anti-Japanese Army or Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon (Hukbalahap) is organized.

April

A pro-US resistance movement is organized, mainly to provide data to the US on enemy positions

9 April

Bataan, under US commander General Edward King, is the last province that surrenders to the Japanese armies.

26 May

Corregidor Island falls to Japanese forces

8 June

Shizuichi Tanaka appointed as Japanese Military Governor (1942-1943)

14 June

The Commonwealth of the Philippines becomes a member of the United  Nations

30 The Kalibapi is organized by the Japanese December  1943

28 May

Shigenori Kuroda appointed as Japanese Military Governor (1943-1942)

20 June

Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo nominates an all Filipino 20 member  Preparatory Commission for Philippine Independence

4 The Philippine Preparatory Commission for Independence d rafts a new September  Constitution which provides for a unicameral national assembly 20 The 108 delegates to the National Assembly are chosen by the members of the September  Preparatory Commission for Philippine Independence. September Jose P. Laurel elected President of the Philippines by the National Assembly 14 October The puppet government is inaugurated. Laurel takes his oath of office  November The Philippine economy collapses, the shortage of rice becomes serious. 1944

May

The puppet government inaugurates the Green Revolution Movement.

1 August

Sergio Osmena assumes the Office of the President of the Commonwealth of  the Philippines after the death of Manuel Quezon

21 US forces raids Manila September  26 Tomoyuki Yamashita appointed as Japanese Military Governor (1944-1945) September  20 October 

General MacArthur lands in Palo, Leyte, accomp anied by President Sergio Osmena and US troops

23 October 

The Commonwealth government of the Philippines is re-established in Tacloban, Leyte

8 Pro-Japanese Philippine generals Pio Duran and Benigno Ramos organize the December  Makapilis 1945

4 February US troops enter Manila 22

Hukbalahap troop leaders arrested by the US forces

February 24 February

The Battle of Manila ends. The Japanese surrender to the combined US and Filipino troops

27 February

MacArthur hands over Malacanang Palace to Osmena.

3 March

The US and Filipino troops recaptured Manila.

22 March

The families of pro-Japanese President Laurel and Speaker Aquino leave The Country for Japan to seek refuge

5 June

The Congress elected in 1941 convenes for the first time

5 July

General MacArthur announces the liberation of the Philippines

6 August

The American forces drop an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan.

9 August

The American forces an atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan.

15 August

The Empire of Japan accepts defeat

12 Jose P. Laurel is arrested by the US army September 

1946

December 

Manuel Roxas separates from the Nacionalista Party of Sergio Osmena S r and  joins the Liberal Party

20 April

Manuel Roxas wins in the last Presidential Election under the Commonwealth

4 July

The United States recognizes the Independence of the Republic of the Philippines

30 The Amended Tenancy Act is promulgated. September  1947

28 January President Roxas issues an amnesty proclamation to collaborators 6 March

HUKBAHALAP declared illegal

15 April

President Roxas dies from a heart attack at Clark Air Field; Vice President Quirino Assumes the Office of President

17 April

Elpidio Quirino takes his oath of office as President of the Philippines

8 The Philippine representative to the Far Eastern Commission, Carlos P. September  Romulo, signs the Japanese Peace Treaty 1950

31 August

President Quirino appoints Ramon Magsaysay as Secretary of the D epartment of National Defense

1951

August

The National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) is established

1953

10 Ramon Magsaysay is elected President of the Rep ublic of the Philippines  November  30 Magsaysay takes his oath of office December 

1954

21 July

The Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty is signed in Manila, creating the South East Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO)

15 The Laurel-Langley Agreement is signed December  1957

17 March

President Magsaysay dies in a plane crash; Vice -President Carlos P. Garcia assumes the presidency

14 Carlos P. Garcia elected President of the Republic of the Philippines  November  1958

28 August

The Filipino first policy is promulgated

1961

7 Diosdado Macapagal elected President of the Republic of the Philippines December  30 Macapagal takes his oath of office December 

1965

9 Ferdinand Marcos elected President of the Republic of the Philippines  November  30 Ferdinand Marcos takes his oath of office December 

1968 1969

26 A new Communist Party of the Philippines established b y Jose Sison December  29 March

Jos Sison formally organizes the military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines, The New People's Army

7 Ferdinand Marcos re-elected President of the Repub lic of the Philippines  November  1970 1971

17 Elections for 315 members of a Constitutional Convention held.  November  1 June

The Constitutional Convention assembles to rewrite the 1935 Constitution. The Convention elects former President Carlos Garcia as its head.

14 June

Garcia dies and former President Diosdado Macapagal takes over the top  position at the Convention.

21 August

Plaza Miranda bombed during the election campaign of the Liberal Party

22 August

President Marcos suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus

1972

Suspicious bombing incidents increase all over The Country . The MNLF launches its campaign for the independence of the Muslim provinces. 21 President Marcos signs the Martial Law Edict (at that time not publicly September  announced). 22 Marcos places the entire country under martial law September  23 Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is arrested September  23 The implementation of martial law is officially announced September  26 The whole country is proclaimed a land reform area and an Agrarian Reform September  Program is decreed. 21 October Marcos passes the Tenant's Emancipation Patent 21 October The first major armed defiance of martial law takes place in Lanao del Sur  22 October 

The battle between the MNLF and the government troops ends with the latter  regaining control of the city.

29 The Constitutional Convention passes the new Constitution of the Philippines.  November  1973

Misuari leaves The Country for Libya to solicit armed support from Muslim countries for the war in Mindanao. 10 January

A plebiscite referendum is held among the citizens' assemblies to ratify the new Constitution

April

The National Democratic Front (NDF), the united front organization of the Communist Party of the Philippines, is formally organized.

1974

27 July

Marcos' term as President extended by virtue of a referendum

27 February

Presidential appointments to local elective positions declared legal by virtue of  another referendum

1 Jose Sison's essay entitled Specific Characteristics of Our People's War  December   published 1976

4 January

New people's Army Spokesman Satur Ocampo arrested

26 August

Kumander Dante of the New People's Army arrested

16 October Martial Law allowed to exted by virtue of a Plebicte 23 Tripoli Agreement signed December 

1977

17 August

An earthquake of 7.8 magnitude and a following tsunami (flood wave) kills 8,000 people on and off the coast of Mindanao.

20 January

The Armed Forces of the Philippines enters into a ceasefire agreement with the MNLF.

4 March

President Marcos issues a decree creating the autonomou s Bangsa Moro Islamic Government

10 The CPP head Jose Maria Sison arrested  November  16 A referendum is held, the result of which a gain empowers the President to December  continue in office, and to become Prime Minister as well. 1978

Rodolfo Salas takes over the leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines. 8 April

1983

August 21 Benigno Aquino, Jr. assassinated

1984 1986

Members of the Interim Batasang Pambansa are elected. Philippine parliamentary election, 1984

February 6 Philippine presidential election, 1986 EDSA Revolution ousts President Marcos; Corazon Aquino becomes president

1987

Philippine legislative election, 1987

1991

Senate rejects renewal of U.S military bases in the Philippines

1992

Philippine general election, 1992 (Fidel V. Ramos is elected)

1995

Philippine general election, 1995

1997

Asian financial crisis

1998

Philippine general election, 1998 (Joseph Estrada is elected) Centennial of Philippines Independence

2000

President Estrada declares an "all-out-war" against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). President Estrada impeached by House of Representatives

21st century Year

2001

Date

Event

EDSA II Revolution ousts Joseph Estrada; vice-president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo becomes president EDSA III

Reference

Philippine general election, 2001 2003

Oakwood mutiny

2004

Philippine general election, 2004 (Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo elected to a six-year term)

2005

Hello Garci scandal (Legitimacy of declared election winners questioned)

2006

A state of emergency was declared in February in response to coup rumours.

2007

Philippine general election, 2007 Manila Peninsula mutiny

2009

Three International Committee of the Red Cross volunteers were kidnapped by the rebel group Abu Sayyaf  Death of former president Corazon Aquino. Great Flood because of Typhoon Ondoy 23 Maguindanao massacre  November  2010 10 May

9 June

President-elect Benigno Aquino III won the Presidential election,  being the 15th President of the Philippines.

30 June

Inauguration of the President-elect Benigno Aquino III took place, officially declaring him as the 15th President of the Philippines.

23 August

The hostage crisis in Manila took place, killing eight Hong Kong holidaymakers.

16 October 

Typhoon Juan, officially as Typhoon Megi, hits northeastern Luzon at Sierra Madre, creating widespread damage over Luzon. (to 18 October)

December 

Vizconde Massacre Case Finished.Result Webb's Freedom

December 

Philippine New Banknotes Released

2012

The Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro is signed which seeks for the creation of a new autonomous political entity, 15 October  Bangsamoro replacing the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao.

The 2010 Philippine general elections took place.