Year |
Date |
Event |
1718 |
|
Rivera Revolt (1718) |
1719 |
|
Caragay Revolt (1719) |
1744 |
|
Dagohoy Rebellion (1744-1829) |
1745 |
|
Agrarian Revolt (1745-1746) |
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 September |
British fleet entered seizes Manila Bay as part of the Seven Years War |
5 October |
Manila fell under the British rule; start of the British occupation. |
6 October |
Junior legislator of the Audiencia Simón de Anda y Salazar established provisional government of the Philippines in Bacolor, Pampanga with him as the dictator. |
2 November |
The British East India Company commissioned The Rt Hon. Dawsonne Drake became the first British governor-general of the Philippines until 1764. |
1763 |
|
Dabo and Marayac Revolt (1763) |
|
Isabela Revolt (1763). |
|
Deaths of Gabriela Silang, the only Filipina to have led a revolt, and her husband Diego. |
10 February |
Treaty of Paris implicitly returns Manila to Spain. |
1764 |
17 March |
Anda handed over the control of the colonial government to Francisco Javier de la Torre. |
11 June |
The last of the British ships that sailed to Manila left Philippines for India. This ends the British occupation. |
1765 |
|
Governor José Antonio Raón y Gutiérrez ordered minting of parallelogramic-shaped coins called barrillas, the first coined minted in the Philippines. |
10 February |
Royal Fiscal of Manila Don Francisco Léandro de Viana wrote the famous letter to King Charles III of Spain, later called as "Viana Memorial of 1765". The document advises the king to abandon the colony because of the economic and social devastation created by the Seven Years' War. The suggestion was not heeded. |
1768 |
23 July |
Following the Suppression of the Jesuits, the members of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines were expelled by Raón after he received a dated later from Charles III's chief minister Don Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea on March 1, 1767 instructing the king's order to expel Jesuits. They surrender their properties to Spanish civil authorities. |
1771 |
|
Moro pirates traveled all over the country and raids many fishing villages in Manila Bay, Mariveles, Parañaque, Pasay and Malate. |
1785 |
|
Lagutao Revolt (1785). |
1787 |
|
Magtanong and Malibiran Revolt (1787). |
1788 |
|
Ilocos Norte Revolt (1788). |
2 April |
Birth of the greatest Tagalog poet from Bulacan Francisco "Balagtas" Baltazar. |
Year |
Date |
Event |
1901 |
|
Silliman Institute, later known as Silliman University, is established as the first American university in the Philippines. |
|
San Beda College was established by the Benedictine friars. |
1902 |
|
Macario Sakay establishes a second Tagalog Republic. |
|
Cavite National High School was established in Cavite City. |
|
Americans proclaim the end of the Philippine-American War, however fighting continues. |
1904 |
|
University of San Agustin in Iloilo is established. |
1905 |
|
Jaro Industrial School, later known as Central Philippine University is established by American Baptist Missionaries in Jaro, Iloilo City. |
1907 |
|
Macario Sakay is executed by hanging, ending his Tagalog Republic. |
|
The First Philippine Assembly is convened. |
1908 |
|
The University of the Philippines is established in Manila (June 18). |
|
The Manila Business School is renamed the Philippine School of Commerce (later the Polytechnic University of the Philippines). |
|
Ambos Camarines Dissolved.Split into Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur. |
1910 |
|
Pope Pius X formally creates the Diocese of Lipa separating it from the Archdiocese of Manila. Joseph Pitrelli, D.D. becomes the first bishop(April 10). |
1911 |
|
De La Salle University-Manila is founded as De La Salle College by the Brothers of Christian Schools. |
1913 |
|
Conflict in the country subsides. |
1914 |
|
Iglesia ni Cristo (largest independent church in Asia) is registered to the government. |
1916 |
|
The Jones Law is passed establishing an all-Filipino legislature |
|
The Philippine Assembly becomes the House of Representatives of the Philippines and a Senate of the Philippines is established |
1918 |
|
The Philippines joins the First World War, sending 25,000 Filipino troops (and additional 6,000 in the U.S. Navy) to Europe fighting for the United States |
1923 |
|
Leyte Divided to Occidental Leyte and Oriental Leyte |
1932 |
|
The Adamson University is founded in Santa Cruz, Manila by the Greek chemist George Lucas Adamson, in present it was permanently addressed in Ermita, Manila and now owned by the Vincentian Fathers. |
1934 |
|
The Philippine Independence Act is approved |
1935 |
|
Commonwealth of the Philippines is established |
|
Manuel L. Quezon is elected president |
1941 |
|
President Quezon re-elected |
|
Japan invades and occupies the Philippines in World War II |
1943 |
|
Jose P. Laurel appointed president by Japanese Imperial Army |
1944 |
|
Manuel L. Quezon dies, Sergio Osmeña becomes the de jure president in exile. |
|
United States retakes the Philippines from Japan |
1945 |
|
The Philippines along with 49 Allied countries signs the United Nations charter. |
1946 |
|
Manuel Roxas elected president |
|
United States grants independence to the Philippines |
1948 |
|
President Roxas dies; Elpidio Quirino becomes president |
1949 |
|
Elpidio Quirino re-elected as president |
1950 |
|
The Philippines joins the Korean War, sending over 7,000 troops under the United Nations command. |
1953 |
|
Ramon Magsaysay elected president |
1954 |
|
Manila Pact, also known as the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), forms alliance of Philippines, the United States, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and France. |
1957 |
|
Ramon Magsaysay dies in a plane crash; Carlos P. Garcia becomes president |
1960 |
|
Birth of Benigno Aquino III, elected president in 2010 |
1961 |
|
Diosdado Macapagal elected president |
|
Independence Day is changed to June 12 by Diosdado Macapagal |
1965 |
|
Ferdinand E. Marcos elected president |
1969 |
|
Ferdinand E. Marcos is re-elected to a second term, the first to ever do so |
1970 |
|
First Quarter Storm begins in January |
1971 |
|
Maranaw was Declared as a Province.And then Dissolved. |
1972 |
|
President Marcos declares martial law |
1978 |
|
First formal elections since 1969 for the Interim Batasang Pambansa (National Assembly) |
|
Ferdinand E. Marcos becomes interim Prime Minister |
1981 |
|
Martial law lifted |
|
Philippine general election and referendum, 1981 (Ferdinand Marcos re-elected to a third term) |
|
Finance Minister Cesar Virata is elected Prime Minister by the Batasang Pambansa |
1983 |
|
Benigno Aquino, Jr. assassinated |
1984 |
|
Philippine parliamentary election, 1984 |
1985 |
|
Negros del Norte Batas Pambansa Blg. 885[38], which created a new province out of the northern portion of Negros Occidental, took effect on December 23, 1985, with a plebiscite to ratify the law held on January 3, 1986. The province was composed of what are now the cities of Cadiz (which was to serve as the capital), Escalante, Sagay, San Carlos, Silay and Victorias, as well as the municipalities of Calatrava, Enrique B. Magalona, Manapla, Salvador Benedicto and Toboso. Although the creation of the new province was ratified by voters in the proposed new province, the Supreme Court declared Batas Pambansa Blg. 885, as well as the proclamation of the province of Negros del Norte, null and void on July 11, 1986 after ruling that the enabling law was unconstitutional for, among other things, not including residents of the rest of Negros Occidental in the plebiscite, and the proposed province not meeting the land area requirement (as per the Local Government Code of 1983) of 3,500 square kilometers.[39] (to 1986) |
1986 |
|
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) |
2000 |
|
President Estrada declares an "all-out-war" against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). |
|
President Estrada impeached by House of Representatives |