Year Date Event Source

1500 In the Battle of Manila the Tondo Dynasty was defeated by the Bruneian Empire. And the Kingdom of
1500 The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in recorded history, The Buag Eruptive Period, Its eruptions were rou
1500 Sultan Bolkiah of Bruneian Empire and its allies consisting of Maynila, Sultanate of Sulu and Maguinda
1521 42430 Discovery of the Philippines: Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan lands on Homonhon with three small shi
1521 46813 Magellan reaches the Philippines
1521 47178 Blood compact between Magellan and Rajah Kulambo of Limasawa
1521 47908 The first mass on Philippine soil is celebrated.
1521 39173 Magellan lands on Cebu; meets Rajah Humabon of Cebu and enters into another Blood Compact.
1521 41730 The first Mass in Cebu province is celebrated, with about 500 natives, including Rajah Humabon and h
1521 46478 Magellan is killed by Lapu-Lapu in the battle of Mactan; Spaniards defeated.
1525 Spain sends an expedition under Juan Garcia Jofre de Loaysa to the Philippines. The Loaysa Expedition
1526 Spain sends another expedition under Juan Cabot to the Philippines. The Cabot Expedition also failed
1527 Spain sends a fourth expedition under Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón 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. One of its survivors is Andres de Urdaneta, its chronicler.
1543 Spain sends a fifth expedition under Ruy López de Villalobos to the Philippines. The Expedition succeed
1543 37288 Villalobos arrives in the Philippines and names the islands of Samar and Leyte as Las Islas Filipinas in h
1565 Arrival of the Augustinians
1565 2/1/2013 Miguel López de Legazpi arrives in the Philippines, landing in Cebu, with four ships and 380 men
1565 4/1/2027 Legazpi returns to Cebu; settlement established.
1565 5/1/2008 Legazpi established the first permanent Spanish settlement in the country
1565 6/1/2004 Legazpi, representing King Philip II of Spain, and Rajah Tupas of Cebu signed the Treaty of Cebu, effecti
1565 Philippines was governed as a territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
1567 Dagami Revolt (1567)
1568 The Portuguese, under the command of General Gonzalo de Pereira, attack Cebu and blockade its por
1569 Present-day Capiz Province becomes a Spanish settlement.
1569 Legazpi moves the seat of government from Cebu to Iloilo.
1569 8/1/2006 King Philip II of Spain, through a royal decree, creates Cebu as the country's first Spanish province; he
1570 The Portuguese again attack the colony and are repulsed.
1570 May Legazpi sends an expedition under the leadership of Martin de Goiti to Manila.
1571 January 1 Legazpi establishes municipality of Cebu and names it "Villa del Santisimo Nombre de Jesus" (Town of
1571 May 19 The ruler of Manila, Rajah Suliman, wages war against the Spaniards
1571 June 24 Legazpi establishes the Spanish Colonial Government in Manila and proclaims it the capital of the colo
1571 December 11Provincehood of Pampanga, first province in Luzon to be inaugurated by the Spaniards.
1572 August 20 Legazpi dies and Guido de Lavezaris succeeds him as Governor-General (1572–1575)
1574 November 7 Enslavement of Filipinos is prohibited by a royal cedula from the Spanish king, as a response to a prote
1574 Chinese pirate Limahong, with his men, invades Luzon; proceeds later to Manila.
1574 November 23The Chinese pirate captain Limahong attacks Manila but fails
1574 December 2 Limahong again attacks Manila with 1500 soldiers but again fails to defeat the Spaniards
1574 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
1575 Juan de Salcedo defeats Limahong and his men in Pangasinan, forcing them to flee into the mountains
1575 August 25 Francisco de Sande appointed Governor-General (1575–1580)
1577 Arrival of the Franciscans
1579 Diocese of Manila established
1580 April Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñaloza appointed Governor-General (1580–1583)
1580 April 5 Establishment of Pangasinan as a provincial unit.
1580 King Philip II of Spain becomes King of Portugal, ending the Portuguese harassment of the Philippines
1580 The Spaniards institute forced labor on all male natives aged 16 to 60.
1581 Arrival of the country's first bishop, Salazar.
1581 Arrival of the Jesuits
1581 March Arrival of the first Dominicans in the Philippines
1582 Battles take place between Spanish forces and Japanese Ronin
1583 March 10 Diego Ronquillo appointed Governor-General (1583–1584)
1583 August A great fire destroys Manila.
1584 May 16 Santiago de Vera appointed Governor-General (1584–1590)
1585 Pampangos Revolt (1585)
1586 The construction of San Agustin Church in Intramuros.
1587 July 21 Arrival of Miguel de Benavides with the second batch of Dominicans in the Philippines, and the establi
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.
1590 June 1 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 is published in the first printing press said to be established
1593 October Pedro de Rojas appointed Governor-General (1593)
1593 December 3 Luis Pérez Dasmariñas appointed Governor-General (1593–1596)
1593 Dominicans pioneer printing in the Philippines by producing through the old technique of xylography.
1594 Convent of Santa Isabel founded
1595 Diocese of Manila raised to an Archbishopric, with Bishop Ignacio Santibáñez its first archbishop
1595 Diocese of Nueva Segovia established, with Miguel de Benavides as its first bishop.
1595 Diocese of Caceres established, with Luis Maldonado as its first bishop.
1595 Diocese of Cebu established, with Pedro de Agurto as its first bishop.
1595 Colegio de San Ildefonso founded in Cebu
1596 Magalat Revolt (1596)
1596 July 14 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
mpire. And the Kingdom of Maynila was established under the Bolkiah dynasty under Rajah Sulayman.
riod, Its eruptions were roughly the same size as those of 1991.
nate of Sulu and Maguindanao had failed to attack the Panay Island and waged a war against the Madyas Confederation.
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explore Mindanao island, naming it "Cesarea Caroli."