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This is a timeline of Philippine history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Philippines and its predecessor states.
In the Beginning. Although the details vary in the retelling, one Philippine creation myth focuses on this core element: a piece of bamboo, emerging from the primordial earth, split apart by the beak of a powerful bird. From the bamboo a woman and man come forth, the progenitors of the Filipino people.
The Philippines were until the independence of Mexico on the 24th of August, 1821 administrated as province of Newspain. There was a closely connection between the Philippines and Mexico, also because of the trading of galeons. Chinese now came as traders to the Philippines.
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican Empire from ...
Colonial era. The recorded history of the Philippines between 900 and 1565 begins with the creation of the Laguna Copperplate Inscription in 900 and ends with the beginning of Spanish colonization in 1565. The inscription records its date of creation in 822 Saka (900 CE).
Jan 9, 2018 · 1896 - Civil and armed campaign for independence from Spanish rule begins. 1898 - Revolutionary forces under Emilio Aguinaldo proclaim independence. 1898 December - During brief Spanish-American ...
Mar 10, 2024 · 1934 - U.S. congress approves the Tydings-McDuffie Law promising Philippine independence by 1946; transition to independence begins. 1935 - Filipino people approve constitution creating the Philippine Commonwealth with Manuel Quezon y Molina as president.
