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[edit] Pre-historic
400,000 BC — People belonging to the species Homo Erectus set foot on the Philippines
50,000 BC — Early humans made stone tools in the Tabon Cave in Palawan
40,000 BC - Negritos start to settle
20,000 BC - Tabon Man made stone tools in the Tabon Cave
4500-300 BC — Multiple Austronesian migrations from Taiwan [citation needed]
c.3000 BC — Presumed date of the Angono Petroglyphs
[edit] British
Year Date Event
September
1762 British fleet entered seizes Manila Bay as part of the Seven Years War
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1762 October 5 Manila fell under the British rule; start of the British occupation.
British forces looted and plundered many of Manila establishments through the
1762
so-called Rape of Manila.
Junior legislator of the Audiencia Simón de Anda y Salazar established
1762 October 6 provisional government of the Philippines in Bacolor, Pampanga with him as
the dictator.
November The British East India Company commissioned The Rt Hon. Dawsonne Drake
1762
2 became the first British governor-general of the Philippines until 1764.
1763 Dabo and Marayac Revolt (1763)
1763 Isabela Revolt (1763).
February
1763 Treaty of Paris implicitly returns Manila to Spain.
10
Deaths of Gabriela Silang, the only Filipina to have led a revolt, and her
1763
husband Diego.
Anda handed over the control of the colonial government to Francisco Javier de
1764 March 17
la Torre.
The last of the British ships that sailed to Manila left Philippines for India. This
1764 June 11
ends the British occupation.
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
February
1765 document advises the king to abandon the colony because of the economic and
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social devastation created by the Seven Years' War. The suggestion was not
heeded.
Governor José Antonio Raón y Gutiérrez ordered minting of parallelogramic-
1765
shaped coins called barrillas, the first coined minted in the Philippines.
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
1768 July 23 Charles III's chief minister Don Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea in March 1, 1767
instructing the king's order to expel Jesuits. They surrender their properties to
Spanish civil authorities.
Moro pirates traveled all over the country and raids many fishing villages in
1771
Manila Bay, Mariveles, Parañaque, Pasay and Malate.
1785 Lagutao Revolt (1785).
1787 Magtanong and Malibiran Revolt (1787).
1788 Ilocos Norte Revolt (1788).
1788 April 2 Birth of the greatest Tagalog poet from Bulacan Francisco "Balagtas" Baltazar.
President Estrada declares an "all-out-war" against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF).
President Estrada impeached by House of Representatives
2001
2003
Oakwood mutiny
2004
2005
2006
2007
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
2010
[edit] References
1. ^ Adib Majul, Cesar (1999). Muslims in the Philippines. University of the Philippines
Press. ISBN 9715421881.