Timeline of Philippine history

This is a timeline of Philippine history. To read about the background to these events, see History of the Philippines. See also the list of Presidents of the Philippines.

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Centuries: 9th - 10th - 11th - 12th - 13th - 14th - 15th - 16th - 17th - 18th - 19th - 20th - 21st

9th century

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

10th century

Year Date Event
1000 People from Southern Annam called Orang Dampuan establish trade zones in Sulu

11th century

Year Date Event
1001 Song Shih document records tributary delegation from the Buddhist Kingdom of Butuan on 17 March.

12th century

Year Date Event
1175 Kingdom of Namayan reaches its peak.

13th century

Year Date Event
1240 Tuan Masha'ika, an Arab, travels and introduces Islam to Sulu.

14th century

Year Date Event
1380 Karim Al-Makhdum arrives in Jolo and builds a Mosque.
1400 Birth of the Baybayin, Hanunoo, Tagbanwa, and Buhid scripts from Brahmi.

15th century

Year Date Event
1457 Sultanate of Sulu founded by Sharif Al-Hashim.[1]
1500 Rise of Kingdom of Maynila under the Bolkiah dynasty

16th century

Year Date Event
1521 Ferdinand Magellan landed on Homonhon and Cebu, claiming the islands for Spain
1543 Ruy López de Villalobos named the islands of Samar and Leyte Las Islas Filipinas
1565 Miguel López de Legazpi established the first permanent Spanish settlement in the country
Philippines was governed as a territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
1567 Dagami Revolt (1567)
1570 Kingdom of Maynila conquered. Manila made a Spanish city
1574 Manila Revolt (1574)
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.
1595 University of San Carlos founded as Colegio de San Ildefonso
1596 Magalat Revolt (1596)
1600 Pedro Bucaneg inscribes the oral epic Biag ni Lam-ang

17th century

Year Date Event
1601 Igorot Revolt (1601)
1602 Chinese revolt of 1602
1611 University of Santo Tomas established as the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario (later renamed the Colegio de Santo Tomas).
1621 The Colegio de Manila is made the Universidad de San Ignacio by Pope Gregory XV.
Tamblot Revolt (1621-1622)
Bankaw Revolt (1621-1622)
1623 The Universidad de San Ignacio is made a royal university by Philip IV of Spain.
1625 Isneg Revolt (1625-1627)
1639 Cagayan Revolt (1639)
1643 Ladia Revolt (1643)
1645 The Colegio de Santo Tomas becomes the University of Santo Tomas after a bull by Pope Innocent X.
Zambales Revolt (1645)
Pampanga Revolt (1645)
1647 Dutch besieged the Spanish in the Battle of Puerto de Cavite.
1649 Sumuroy Revolt (1649-50)
Pintados Revolt (1649-50)
1660 Zambal Revolt (1660)
Maniago Revolt (1660)
Malong Revolt (1660-1661)
1661 Ilocano Revolt (1661)
1662 Chinese revolt of 1662
1663 Tapar Revolt (1663)
1681 Sambal Revolt (1681-1683)
1686 Tingco plot (1686)

18th century

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.

19th century

Year Date Event
1805 Nueva Vizcaya Revolt (1805)
1807 Ambaristo Revolt (1807)
1821 The Philippines becomes a province of Spain.
1837 Manila is made an open port.
1838 Florante at Laura is published.
1859 The Jesuits return to the Philippines. They are asked to take over the Escuela Municipal in Intramuros, which is now the Ateneo de Manila University.
1861 Jose Rizal, Philippines' National Hero is born.
1872 200 Filipino soldiers stage a mutiny in Cavite.
Priests Mariano Gomez, José Apolonio Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora (together known as Gomburza) are implicated in the Cavite Mutiny and executed.
1882 In Madrid, Jose Rizal begins writing Noli Me Tangere(novel), a political novel set in the Philippines.
1887 Noli Me Tangere published.
1891 El Filibusterismo published.
1892 Jose Rizal establishes La Liga Filipina and is exiled to Dapitan.
Andres Bonifacio establishes the Katipunan.
1896 Andres Bonifacio and warriors shouts for freedom in the Cry of Balintawak.
Philippine Revolution begins. Andres Bonifacio establishes the Tagalog Republic.
José Rizal is executed.
Emilio Aguinaldo is elected president of a revolutionary government meant to replace the Katipunan/Tagalog Republic at the Tejeros Convention.
1897 Andres Bonifacio is executed.
Aguinaldo establishes the Republic of Biak-na-Bato.
Pact of Biak-na-Bato ends the Republic of Biak-na-Bato.
1898 Emilio Aguinaldo issues a proclamation establishing a dictatorial government.
Emilio Aguinaldo declares independence.
Emilio Aguinaldo issues a decree formally establishing a dictatorial government.
Emilio Aguinaldo issues a decree changing the character of his government from dictatorial to revolutionary.
Malolos Constitution establishes First Philippine Republic.
Treaty of Paris transfers control of the Philippines and other territories from Spain to the United States.
Philippine-American War erupts between Filipino nationalists and American forces.

20th century

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

21st century

Year Date Event
2001 EDSA II Revolution ousts Joseph Estrada; vice-president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo becomes president
EDSA III
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.
Death of leader of largest independent church in Asia Eraño Manalo.
Great Flood because of Typhoon Ondoy
Maguindanao massacre
2010 10 May The 2010 Philippine general elections took place.
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

References

  1. ^ Adib Majul, Cesar (1999). Muslims in the Philippines. University of the Philippines Press. ISBN 9715421881.