BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES

PRE-HISTORY

 400,000 BC - People belonging to the

species Homo Erectus were the first to set
foot on the Philippines

 50,000 BC - The Tabon Man made Stone

tools in the Tabon Cave in Palawan

 40,000 BC -Negritos started to settle

 4500-300 BC -Multiple Austronesian
 migrations from Taiwan
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES
 PRE-HISTORY
 c.3000 BC - Presumed date of the Angono

Petroglyphs

 900 AD - People from Southern Annam called

Orang Dampuan established trade zones in 
Sulu

 900 AD - Established settlements were already

present in and around Manila as seen in the 
Laguna Copperplate Inscription
 1240 AD - Tuan Mash`ika ,a Muslim
 traveled and introduced Islam to Sulu

 1300s AD - Birth of the Baybayin,

Hanunoo script|Hanunoo, Tagbanwa,
and Buhid scripts

 1380 AD - Karim ul-Makhdum arrived

at Sulu and built a Mosque

 1433 AD - The legendary Datu 

Kalantiaw publishes a legal code
16th Century
 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan lands in the Philippines,
claiming the islands for Spain
 1543 - Ruy López de Villalobos names the
islands Las Islas Filipinas
 1565 - Miguel López de Legazpi establishes the first
permanent Spanish settlement in the country
 1570 - Manila is conquered and made a Spanish city
 1590 - Missionaries from the Society of Jesus
 establish the Colegio de Manila in Intramuros.
 1595 - University of San Carlos founded as Colegio
de San Ildefonso
 17th century
 c.1600 - Pedro Bucaneg inscribes the oral epic Biag ni
Lam-Ang
 1611 - University of Santo Tomas established as the
Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario (later
renamed the Colegio de Santo Tomas).
 1621 - The Colegio de Manila is made the Universidad de
San Ignacio by Pope Gregory XV.
 1623 - The Universidad de San Ignacio is made a royal
university by Philip IV of Spain.
 1645 - The Colegio de Santo Tomas becomes the
University of Santo Tomas after a bull by Pope Innocent X.
 1647 - Dutch Republic|Dutch besieged the Spanish in the 
Battle of Puerto de Cavite
 18th century
 1762 - British East India Company seizes Manila
 1763 - Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris
returns Manila to Spain
 1763 - Deaths of Gabriela Silang, the only 
Filipina to have led a revolt, and her husband 
Diego
 1768 - Following the Suppression of the Jesuits,
the members of the Society of Jesus in the
Philippines are expelled. They surrender their
properties to Spanish civil authorities.
 1788 - Birth of the writer Francisco Balagtas
19th Century
 1821 - The Philippines becomes a
Provinces of Spain|province of Spain.
 1837 - Manila is made an open port.
 1838 - Florante at Laura is published.
 1859 - The Jesuits return to the
Philippines. They are asked to take over
the Escuela Municipal in Intramuros,
which is now the Ateneo
de Manila University.
 1872 - 200 Filipino soldiers stage a
 1873 - Priests Mariano Gomez, José
Apolonio Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora
 (together known as Gomburza) are
implicated in the Cavite Mutiny and
executed.
 1887 - Noli Me Tangere published.

 1891 - El Filibusterismo published.

 1892 - Andres Bonifacio establishes
the Katipunan.
 1896 - José Rizal is executed.
 1898 - Treaty of Paris transfers
control of the Philippines from Spain
 to the United States ending the
existence of the Spanish East Indies.
 1898 - Philippine-American War
 Conflict erupts between Filipino
Revolutionists and American Forces
 20th Century

 1902 - Americans proclaim the end of the 

Philippine-American War, however fighting continues.
 1904 - University of San Agustin in Iloilo was
established.
 1907 - The First Philippine Assembly is convened.

 1908 - The University of the Philippines was

established in Manila.
 1911 - De La Salle University-Manila is founded as De
La Salle College by the Brothers of Christian Schools.
 1913 - Conflict in the country subsides.
 1916 - The Jones Law is passed establishing a purely
Filipino legislature
 1916 - The Philippine Assembly becomes the House of

Representatives and a Senate is established

 1918 - The Philippines joins the First World War,

sending 25,000 Filipino troops (and additional 6,000 in

the U.S. Navy) to Europe fighting for the United States
 1934 - The Philippine Independence Act  is approved

 1935 - Commonwealth of the Philippines  is established

 1935 - Manuel L. Quezon is elected president
 1941 - President Quezon re-elected
 1941 - Japan invades and occupies the Philippines in 
World War II
 1943 - Jose P. Laurel appointed president by Japanese Imperial
Army
 1944 - United States retakes the Philippines from Japan
 1945 -The Philippines along with 49 Allied countries signed the
United Nations charter.
 1946 - Manuel Roxas elected president
 1946 - United States grants full independence to the Philippines
 1948 - President Roxas dies; Elpidio Quirino becomes president
 1949 - Elpidio Quirino re-elected as president
 1950 - The Philippines joins the Korean War, sending over
7,000 troops under the United Nations command.
 1953 - Ramon Magsaysay elected president
 1954 - Manila Pact, also known as the South East Asia Treaty
Organization (SEATO), forms alliance of Philippines, the United
States, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Thailand, Australia, New
Zealand and France.
 1957 - Ramon Magsaysay dies in plane crash
 1961 - Diosdado Macapagal elected president
 1961 - Independence Day is changed to June 12 by 
Diosdado Macapagal
 1965 - Ferdinand E. Marcos elected president
 1969 - Ferdinand E. Marcos is re-elected to a second
full term, the first to ever do so
 1970 - First Quarter Storm began in January

 1972 - President Marcos delares martial law

 1978 - First formal elections since 1969 for the Interim
Batasang Pambansa (National Assembly)
 1978 - Ferdinand E. Marcos becomes interim 

Prime Minister
 1981 - Martial law lifted
 1981 - Ferdinand E. Marcos is re-elected to a third term
 1981 - Finance Minister Cesar Virata is elected Prime Minister by
the Batasang Pambansa
 1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr. assassinated
 1986 - Ferdinand E. Marcos is re-elected in allegedly fraudulent
"snap" election
 1986 - EDSA Revolution ousts President Marcos; Corazon Aquino
 becomes president
 1991 - Senate rejects renewal of U.S military bases in the
Philippines
 1992 - Philippine general election, 1992  (Fidel V. Ramos is
elected)
 1997 - Asian financial crisis
 1998 - Philippine general election, 1998  (Joseph Estrada is
elected)
21st Century

 2000 - President Estrada impeached by 

House of Representatives
 2001 - EDSA II Revolution ousts Joseph Estrada; Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo becomes president
 2003 - 2003 Oakwood mutiny
 2004 - Philippine general election, 2004  (Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo is re-elected)
 2005 - Hello Garci scandal (Legitimacy of declared
election winners questioned)
 2006 - A state of emergency was declared in February

in response to coup rumours.

  2010-2016 – President Benigno Simeon C.
Aquino III
 Chief Justice Renato Corona – Impeached ( 1st

in the Supreme Court History

 AFP Modernization
 2016 – Present – President Rodrigo Roa

Duterte
 The First President from Mindanao
 War Against Illegal Drugs
 War Against Corruption
 Proposing the Philippines’ Federalism
 Declared Partial Martial Law in Mindanao