ASSIGNMENT IN SOCIAL STUDIES

TIMELINE OF THE EARLY PHILIPPINES UP TO 1521

By: Diane Danica Dy, BMLS 2-C

About 25, 000 B.C.

About 25,000 B.C. Negritos moved to the Philippines by means of land bridges, as theorized by H. Otley Beyer. They were food gatherers and hunters, and the forefathers of today's Negritos. These people used bows and arrows and stone made implements, and they lived in caves. About 3,000 B.C. The "New Stone Age". Sea faring Malays, from what is today, Indonesia come to the archipelago. These new settlers brought with them polished stone tools, boat building, bark and animal skin cloth making, pottery, rice planting, the process of cooking food in bamboo tubes, the techniques of making fire by rubbing two sticks together. The Negritos began to move out of caves and settle in a scattered manner along the coasts and rivers. About 1,000 B.C. A second wave of Malay immigrants arrived in the Philippines by sea. Each of their ships accommodated one small clan. Such a ship load of people was called a Barangay. The immigrants in the second wave were ancestors of today's Ifugao, Bontoc, Mangyans, and other primitive tribes. They introduced the animist religion and jar burial in the country. 200 B.C. More civilized Malays in large numbers migrated to the Philippines. They are the racial stock of the majority of today's Philippine populace. 900 B.C. People from Southern Annam called Orang Dampuan established trade zones in Sulu. Established settlements were already present in and around Manila as seen in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription. 982 B.C. Trade relations with the Chinese started during this time. 1000 A.D. In the Iron Age, began the artistry in the Philippines in all aspects of life and work. Earrings, beads, pendants and bangles made of clay, stone and shells are developed. Body tattooing is used as well as filing and blackening teeth which were then wrapped with gold foil or studded with gold fillings. 1200 In the Porcelain Age trading begins extensively with Arabia, India, Annan, China and later with the Europeans. Porcelains from different Chinese dynasties are imported. 1209-1214 The Chinese writer Chao Ju-Kua described the Chinese trade with Ma-i (presumably Mindoro) and praised the honesty of the Filipinos. 1240 Tuan Mashika, a Muslim traveled and introduced Islam to Sulu. 1250 The Maragtas Code was written by Datu Sumakwel of Panay was made. This is the first law ever written which focuses on the penalty for those who are lazy. 1300 Migrants from Borneo spread into the Southern Philippines. 1368 Under the Ming Dynasty, China exercised nominal suzerainty over the Philippines, and some Filipinos paid tribute to China. 1380 Islam reached the Southern Philippines via Borneo. In Islamic areas, slavery is widely replacing head-hunting. The would-be-headhunting victims become slaves that are bartered to Chinese traders. A new social order is started made up of freemen, commoners, slaves and bonded servants, all under the leadership of a datu.

About 3, 000 B.C. About 1, 000 B.C.

200 B.C. 900 A.D.

982 A.D.

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1521

1390 Rajah Baginda, a prince of Menankabaw, Sumatra, led an army of Muslim invaders to Sulu and overcame native opposition with firearms. 1400 The Hindu empire of Majapahit on Java gains influence over parts of the islands. 1421 The last Filipino tribute embassy came to China, according to the Ming-Shih or dynastic annals of the Ming. 1433 Datu Kalantiaw published a legal code. 1450 Abu Bakr, Muslim Leader from Palembang, Sumatra, reached Sulu and married the daughter of Rajah Baginda. After Bagindas death, he founded the Sultanate of Jolo, with himself as sultan. 1475 The Muslim sultanate of Maguindanao is founded on Mindanao. Islam spread throughout the archipelago and even reached Central Luzon. March 16, 1521 A Spanish expedition, sailing across the Pacific Ocean from east to west, and led by the Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan (died on April 27, 1521) lands on Homonhon Island east of Samar with three small ships, named Concepcion Trinidad, and Victoria. Magellan called the place San Lazaro Island since March 16 is St. Lazarus Day.

References:
http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Philippine_history http://philippines-timeline.com/ A Study Guide in Philippine History