Timeline of Manila
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Manila, Luzon island, Philippines.
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20th century
- 1900 - Instituto de Mujeres[15] and American Circulating Library established.[16][17]
- 1901
- City of Manila administrative entity created, composed of Binondo, Ermita, Intramuros, Malate, Pandacan, Port Area, Quiapo, Santa Cruz, Santa Ana de Sapa, San Nicolas, San Miguel, San Fernando de Dilao (Paco), Sampaloc, San Andres, Santa Mesa, Tondo.
- Capital of the Philippines relocated to Manila from Malolos.
- Arsenio Cruz-Herrera becomes mayor.
- National Museum of the Philippines established.
- United States military Fort William McKinley established near city.
- 1902 - Manila Grand Opera House in use in Santa Cruz.
- 1903 - Population: 219,928 city; 330,345 metro.[18]
- 1905
- 1908 - University of the Philippines Manila founded.[19]
- 1909 - Philippine Library established.[16]
- 1912 - Manila Hotel in business.
- 1913 - Rizal Monument erected.
- 1917 - Justo Lukban becomes mayor.
- 1918 - Population: 285,306 city; 469,955 metro.[18]
- 1919 - United States military Camp Nichols established near city.
- 1920 - Ramón Fernández becomes mayor.
- 1924 - Miguel Romuáldez becomes mayor.
- 1926 - Legislative Building inaugurated in Ermita.
- 1927 - Tomás Earnshaw becomes mayor.
- 1935
- 1939 - Population: 623,492.[18]
- 1941
- City of Greater Manila formed, merging city and municipal governments of Manila, Quezon City, San Juan del Monte, Caloocan, etc.
- Jorge B. Vargas becomes mayor.
- 1942
- Japanese occupation begins.[21]
- León G. Guinto, Sr. becomes mayor.
- 1945
- 1946 - City becomes part of the newly proclaimed Republic of the Philippines.[1]
- 1947 - Republic Theatre opens.[20]
- 1948
- 1949 - 18 June: City legislative districts for House of Representatives of the Philippines expanded from two to four.
- 1952
- 1954 - Holy Child Catholic School active in Tondo.
- 1960
- 1961 - Manila Airport new terminal opens.
- 1962 - Antonio Villegas becomes mayor.
- 1966 - Cultural Center of the Philippines founded.
- 1970
- 1971 - Ramon Bagatsing becomes mayor.
- 1975
- Metropolitan Manila Commission created to administer aspects of Caloocan, Mandaluyong, Makati, Malabon, Manila, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Pasay, Pasig, Las Piñas, Parañaque, Pateros, Quezon City, San Juan, Taguig, Valenzuela.
- Population: 1,479,116 city; 4,880,006 metro.[18]
- 1976
- 1979 - Sampaloc flea market officially inaugurated.[24]
- 1980 - Population: 5,924,563 metro.[23]
- 1982 - Metro Manila Commission for Squatters established.
- 1983 - 21 August: Assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. at Manila International Airport.
- 1984 - Manila Light Rail Transit System begins operating.
- 1986
- 1992 - Alfredo Lim becomes mayor.
- 1994 - Museo Pambata opens in Ermita.
- 1995 - Metropolitan Manila Development Authority established.
- 1998 - Lito Atienza becomes mayor.
21st century
- 2000
- 2001
- January: 2001 EDSA Revolution.
- April–May: EDSA III protest.[29]
- 2002 - Bus bombing.[26]
- 2003 - Army mutiny.[26]
- 2007
- June: Alfredo Lim becomes mayor again.
- November: Coup attempt.[26]
- MO_Space art gallery founded.[28]
- 2009 - September: Typhoon.[30]
- 2010
- 2012 - August: Flooding.[32]
- 2013
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Manila". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. p. 565+. ISBN 9781884964046.
- ↑ Philip M. Finegan (1910). "Manila". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Greg Bankoff (2012). "Tale of Two Cities: the Pyro-Seismic Morphology of 19th-century Manila". In Greg Bankoff et al. Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World. USA: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 170–189. ISBN 978-0-299-28383-4.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Artemio R. Guillermo (2012). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Philippines. Maryland, USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7246-2.
- ↑ "Southeast Asia, 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved May 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 "Manila", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Manilla", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Manilla", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- ↑ http://www.admu.edu.ph/history''.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 fr:Xavier Huetz de Lemps (2001). "Waters in Nineteenth Century Manila". Philippine Studies 49. JSTOR 42633496.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 "Manila", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
- ↑ Joseph Burzynski (2002). "Timber Trade and the Growth of Manila, 1864-1881". Philippine Studies 50. JSTOR 42634459.
- ↑ Yoshihiro Chiba (2005). "Cigar-Makers in American Colonial Manila: Survival during Structural Depression in the 1920s". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 36. JSTOR 20072667.
- ↑ "Manila (Philippines) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved May 2014.
- ↑ David E. Gardinier and Josefina Z. Sevilla-Gardinier (1989). "Rosa Sevilla de Alvero and the Instituto de Mujeres of Manila". Philippine Studies 37. JSTOR 42633130.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 David H. Stam, ed. (2001). "Philippines". International Dictionary of Library Histories. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN 1579582443.
- ↑ Nelly Young Egbert, ed. (1907). List of Books in the American Circulating Library of Manila. Manila: Bureau of Printing.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 William F. Stinner and Melinda Bacol-Montilla (1981). "Population Deconcentration in Metropolitan Manila in the Twentieth Century". Journal of Developing Areas 16. JSTOR 4190969.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Webster's Geographical Dictionary, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 666, OL 5812502M
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Movie Theaters in Manila, Philippines". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved May 2014.
- ↑ Bruce P. Lenman (2004). "Manila". In Ooi Keat Gin. Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 854+. ISBN 978-1-57607-770-2.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Philippines". Europa World Year Book 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1857432533.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Jack Arn (1995). "Pathway To The Periphery: Urbanization, Creation Of A Relative Surplus Population, And Political Outcomes In Manila, Philippines". Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 24. JSTOR 40553284.
- ↑ Hans F. Illy (1986). "Regulation and Evasion: Street-Vendors in Manila". Policy Sciences 19. JSTOR 4532068.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 BBC News. "Timeline". Phillipines Profile. Retrieved May 2014.
- ↑ Victor V. Sumsky (1992). "City as Political Actor: Manila, February 1986". Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 17. JSTOR 40644756.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 "Philippines". Art Spaces Directory. New York: New Museum. Retrieved May 2014.
- ↑ Marco Garrido (2008). "Civil and Uncivil Society Symbolic Boundaries and Civic Exclusion in Metro Manila". Philippine Studies 56. JSTOR 42633976.
- ↑ "Typhoon kills 32 in Vietnam; Philippine toll at 246". Reuters. 29 September 2009. Retrieved May 2014.
- ↑ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2012. United Nations Statistics Division. 2013. Retrieved May 2014.
- ↑ "Rains Flood a Third of Manila Area, Displacing Thousands". New York Times. 7 August 2012. Retrieved May 2014.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- William Milburn; Thomas Thornton (1825). "Manilla". Oriental Commerce; or the East India Trader's Complete Guide. London: Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen.
- Fedor Jagor (1875). "Manilla". Travels in the Philippines. London: Chapman and Hall.
- John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Manilla", in Hugh G. Reid, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- "Philippines: Manila". The Chronicle & Directory for China, Corea, Japan, the Philippines, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Siam, Borneo, Malay States, &c. Hong Kong: Daily Press. 1892.
- Margherita Arlina Hamm (1898), Manila and the Philippines, London: F.T. Neely
- John Foreman (1899), "(Manila)", The Philippine Islands (2nd ed.), New York: C. Scribner's Sons
- Manila and the Philippine Islands: an up to date handbook of facts, New York: Philippines Company, 1899
- Published in the 20th century
- Commercial Directory of Manila, Manila, 1901
- Burton Holmes (1901), "Manila", The Burton Holmes Lectures, Battle Creek, Michigan: Little-Preston, OCLC 5082081
- C.W. Rosenstock, ed. (1904), Manila City Directory
- Historical Notes Concerning Manila. United States government. 1904.
- Kemlein & Johnson's guide and map of Manila and vicinity. 1908.
- Manila, the pearl of the Orient, Manila, Philippine Islands: Manila Merchants' Association., 1908, OCLC 5296360
- George Amos Miller (1912). Interesting Manila: Historical Narratives Concerning the Pearl of the Orient (3rd ed.). Manila: E.C. McCullough.
- Philippines. Office of Public Welfare Commissioner. (1922), Directory of charitable and social service organizations and institutions in the city of Manila (2nd ed.), Manila: Bureau of Printing
- Mauro Garcia, ed. (1971), Focus on old Manila, Manila: Philippine Historical Association
- Edilberto De Jesus. 'Manila's first factories', Philippine Historical Review, 4 (1971)
- Nicolas Zafra (1974), The colonization of the Philippines and the beginnings of the Spanish city of Manila, Manila: National Historical Commission
- Daniel F. Doeppers. Manila, 1900-1941: Social change in a late colonial metropolis (New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1984).
- Ramon Ma Zaragoza (1990), Old Manila, Singapore: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195889738
- Melinda Tria Kerkvliet, Manila workers' unions, 1900-1950 (Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1992).
- Published in the 21st century
- Xavier Huetz de Lemps. 'Shifts in meaning of "Manila" in the nineteenth century', in Old ties and new solidarities: Studies on Philippine communities, ed. C. J.-H. Macdonald and G. M. Pesigan (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2000)
- Charles L. Choguill (2001). "Manila: City of Hope or a Planner's Nightmare?". Built Environment 27. JSTOR 23287514.
- Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo (2002). "Metro Manila: City in Search of a Myth". Philippine Studies 50. JSTOR 42634469.
- "Manila", Philippines, Lonely Planet, 2003, p. 87+, OL 8906497M
- Gavin Shatkin (2007). Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-4786-7.
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