Philippines History and Events

Philippines History and Events

Pre-historic[edit]

Year (BCE)	Date	Event
500,000		The early humans in the Cagayan cave.
400,000		People belonging to the species Homo Erectus set foot on the Philippines.
55,000		The first Homo Sapiens in the Philippines.
50,000		Early humans made stone tools in the Tabon Cave in Palawan.
8,000		The ancestors in the other caves: Batangas, Bulacan and Rizal.
		The other caves of Palawan: Guri and Duyong cave where the Homo Sapiens lived.
40,000		Negritos start to settle.
20,000		Tabon Man made stone tools in the Tabon Cave.
4,500–300		Multiple Austronesian migrations from Taiwan.
3,000		Presumed date of the Angono Petroglyphs.

10th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
900		End of prehistory. Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the earliest known Philippine document, is written in the Manila area in Kawi script.
		Rise of Indianized polity of Tondo around Manila Bay.

11th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1000		People from Central Vietnam called Orang Dampuan establish trade zones in Sulu
1001	March 17	Song Shih document records tributary delegation from the Indic Rajahnate of Butuan.

12th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1175		Namayan reaches its peak.

13th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1240		Tuan Masha'ika, an Arab, travels and introduces Islam to Sulu.

14th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1380		Sheikh Karim-ul Makhdum arrives in Jolo and builds a Mosque.
1390		Baguinda Ali arrives in Buansa, Sulu and the people named him Rajah.
1400		Birth of the Baybayin, Hanunoo, Tagbanwa, and Buhid scripts from Brahmi.

15th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1457		Sultanate of Sulu founded by Sayyid Abubakar Abirin.[1]

16th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1500		Rise of Kingdom of Maynila under the Bolkiah dynasty
1521	March 16	Ferdinand Magellan lands on Homonhon with three small ships, named the Concepcion, Trinidad and Victoria. Magellan calls the place theArcigelago de San Lazaro since March 16 is the feast day of Saint Lazarus
	March 28	Magellan reaches the Philippines
	March 29	Blood Compact between Magellan and Rajah Kulambo of Limasawa
	March 31	The first mass on Philippine soil is celebrated.
	April 7	Magellan meets Rajah Humabon of Cebu and enters into another Blood Compact. Humabon and his wife are baptized into the Catholic Church.
	April 27	Magellan is killed by Lapu-Lapu in the battle of Mactan.
1525		Spain sends an expedition under Juan Garcia Jofre de Loaysa to the Philippines. The Loaysa Expedition failed
1526		Spain sends another expedition under Juan Cabot to the Philippines. The Cabot Expedition also failed
1527		Spain sends a fourth expedition under Alvaro de Saavedra 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 succeeds
	February 2	Villalobos arrives in the Philippines and names the islands of Samar and Leyte as Las Islas Filipinas in honor of the crown prince of Spain, Philip of Asturias
1565	February 13	Miguel López de Legazpi arrives in the Philippines with four ships and 380 men
	8 May	Legazpi established the first permanent Spanish settlement in the country
		Philippines was governed as a territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
1567		Dagami Revolt (1567)[2][3][4][5][6]
1568		The Portuguese, under the command of General Gonzalo de Pereira, attack Cebu and blockade its port.
1570		The Portuguese again attack the colony and are repulsed.
	May	Legaspi sends an expedition under the leadership of Martin de Goiti to Manila.
1571	19 May	The ruler of Manila, Rajah Suliman, wages war against the Spaniards
	June 24	Legaspi establishes the Spanish Colonial Government in Manila and proclaims it the capital of the colony
1572	August 20	Legazpi dies and Guido de Lavezaris succeeds him as Governor-General (1572–1575)
1574	November 23	The Chinese pirate captain Limahong attacks Manila but fails
	December 2	Limahong again attacks Manila with 1500 soldiers but again fails to defeat the Spaniards
	December	Lakandula leads a short revolt against the Spanish.[2][3][4][5][6]
1575		Ciudad de Nueva Cáceres(later renamed as Naga City) established by Captain Pedro de Sanchez
	August 25	Francisco de Sande appointed Governor-General (1575–1580)
1579		Diocese of Manila established
1580	April	Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñaloza appointed Governor-General (1580–1583)
		King Philip II of Spain becomes King of Portugal, ending the Portuguese harassment of the Philippines
		The Spaniards institute forced labor on all male natives aged 16 to 60.
1582		Battles take place between Spanish forces and Japanese Ronin
1583	March 10	Diego Ronquillo appointed Governor-General (1583–1584)
	August	A great fire destroys Manila
1584	16 May	Santiago de Vera appointed Governor-General (1584–1590)
1585		Pampangos Revolt (1585)[2][3][4][5][6]
1587		Conspiracy of the Maharlikas (1587–1588)[2][3][4][5][6]
1589		Revolts Against the Tribute (1589)[2][3][4][5][6]
1590		Missionaries from the Society of Jesus established the Colegio de Manila in Intramuros.[7][8][9]
	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 published
	October	Pedro de Rojas appointed Governor-General (1593)
	December 3	Luis Pérez Dasmariñas appointed Governor-General (1593–1596)
1595		Diocese of Manila raised to an Archbishopric
		Diocese of Nueva Segovia established.
		Diocese of Caceres established.
		Diocese of Cebu established.
		Colegio de San Ildefonso founded in Cebu
1596		Magalat Revolt (1596)[2][3][4][5][6]
	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[7][10][11][12]
1600		Pedro Bucaneg inscribes the oral epic Biag ni Lam-ang

17th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1600		The Dutch attacks the archipelago in a tactical offensive during the European war between Spain and the Netherlands
		Bandala System is formed by the Spanish Colonial Government
		The Galleon trade between Manila and Acapulco, Mexico begins.
1601		Igorot Revolt (1601).[2][3][4][5][6]
	August 1	Colegio de San Jose is established[7][13][14][15]
1602		Chinese revolt of 1602[2][3][4][5][6]
	May	Pedro Bravo de Acuña appointed Governor-General (1602–1606).
1606	June 24	Cristóbal Téllez de Almanza appointed Governor-General (1606–1608) by the Audiencia Real.
1608	June 15	Rodrigo de Vivero y Velasco appointed Governor-General (1608–1609).
1609	April	Juan de Silva appointed Governor-General (1609–1616).
1611	April 28	University of Santo Tomas established as the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario (later renamed the Colegio de Santo Tomas).[7][16][17]
1616	April 19	Andrés Alcaraz appointed Governor-General (1616–1618) by the Audiencia Real.
1618	July 3	Alonso Fajardo de Entenza appointed Governor-General (1618–1624).
1619		University of Santo Tomas, then known as Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santissimo Rosario, recognized by the Holy See.[16][17]
1620		Colegio de San Juan de Letran established as the Colegio de Huerfanos de San Pedro y San Pablo.[7][18][19][20]
1621		The Colegio de Manila raised to the status of a University and renamed as the Universidad de San Ignacio by Pope Gregory XV.[7][9]
		Tamblot Revolt (1621–1622)[2][3][4][5][6]
		Bankaw Revolt (1621–1622)[2][3][4][5][6]
1624	July	Jeronimo de Silva appointed Governor-General (1624–1625) by the Audiencia Real.
	July	Fernando de Silva appointed Governor-General (1624–1626).
1625		Isneg Revolt (1625–1627)[2][3][4][5][6]
1626	June 29	Juan Niño de Tabora appointed Governor-General (1626–1632).
1627		University of Santo Tomas, then Colegio de Santo Tomas, authorized to confer degrees by Pope Urban VIII.[16][17]
1632	July 22	Lorenzo de Olaza appointed Governor-General (1632–1633) by the Audiencia Real.
		Colegio de Santa Isabel established[7][21][22]
1633	August 29	Juan Cerezo de Salamanca appointed Governor-General (1632–1635).
1635	June 25	Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera appointed Governor-General (1635–1644).
1639		Cagayan Revolt (1639)[2][3][4][5][6]
1640		Universidad de San Felipe de Austria established as the first Public University in the Philippines[7][23]
1643		Universidad de San Felipe de Austria closed down[7][23]
		Ladia Revolt (1643)[2][3][4][5][6]
1644	August 11	Diego Fajardo Chacón appointed Governor-General (1644–1653).
1645		The Colegio de Santo Tomas raised to the status of a university and renamed as University of Santo Tomas by Pope Innocent X, upon the request of King Philip IV of Spain.[16][17]
		Zambales Revolt (1645)[2][3][4][5][6]
		Pampanga Revolt (1645)[2][3][4][5][6]
1647		Dutch besieged the Spanish in the Battle of Puerto de Cavite.
1649		Sumuroy Revolt (1649–50)[2][3][4][5][6]
		Pintados Revolt (1649–50)[2][3][4][5][6]
1653	July 25	Sabiniano Manrique de Lara appointed Governor-General (1653–1663).
1660		Zambal Revolt (1660)[2][3][4][5][6]
		Maniago Revolt (1660)[2][3][4][5][6]
		Malong Revolt (1660–1661)[2][3][4][5][6]
1661		Ilocano Revolt (1661)[2][3][4][5][6]
1662		Chinese revolt of 1662[2][3][4][5][6]
1663	September 8	Diego de Salcedo appointed Governor-General (1663–1668).
		Tapar Revolt (1663)[2][3][4][5][6]
1668	September 28	Juan Manuel de la Peña Bonifaz appointed Governor-General (1668–1669).
1669	September 24	Manuel de León appointed Governor-General (1669–1677).
1677	September 21	Francisco Coloma appointed Governor-General (1677) by the Audiencia Real.
	September 21	Francisco Sotomayor y Mansilla appointed Governor-General (1677–1678) by the Audiencia Real.
1678	September 28	Juan de Vargas y Hurtado appointed Governor-General (1678–1684).
1680	12 May	University of Santo Tomas placed under Royal Patronage by King Charles II of Spain.[16][17]
1681		Sambal Revolt (1681–1683)[2][3][4][5][6]
1684	August 24	Gabriel de Curuzealegui y Arriola appointed Governor-General (1684–1689).
1686		Tingco plot (1686)
1689	April	Alonso de Avila Fuertes appointed Governor-General (1689–1690) by the Audiencia Real
1690	July 25	Fausto Cruzat y Gongora appointed Governor-General (1690–1701).

18th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1701	December 8	Domingo Zabálburu de Echevarri appointed Governor-General (1701–1709).
1709	August 25	Martín de Urzua y Arismendi appointed Governor-General (1709–1715).
1715	February 4	Jose Torralba appointed Governor-General (1715–1717) by the Audiencia Real.
1717	August 9	Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda appointed Governor-General (1717–1719).
1718		Rivera Revolt (1718)[2][3][4][5][6]
1719	October 11	Archbishop Francisco de la Cuesta of Manila becomes acting Governor-General (1719–1721).
		Caragay Revolt (1719)[2][3][4][5][6]
1721	August 6	Toribio José Cosio y Campo appointed Governor-General (1721–1729).
1722		Colegio de San Jose conferred with the title Royal.
1729	August 14	Fernándo Valdés y Tamon appointed Governor-General (1729–1739).
1739	July	Gaspar de la Torre appointed Governor-General (1739–1745).
1744		Dagohoy Rebellion (1744–1829)
1745	September 21	Archbishop Juan Arrechederra of Manila becomes acting Governor-General (1745–1750).
		Agrarian Revolt (1745–1746)[2][3][4][5][6]
1750	July 20	Jose Francisco de Obando y Solis appointed Governor-General (1750–1754).
1754	15 May	Mt Taal emits magma and destroys the towns of Lipa, Sala, Tanauan and Talisay.
	July 26	Pedro Manuel de Arandia Santisteban appointed Governor-General (1754–1759).
1759	June	Miguel Lino de Ezpeleta appointed Governor-General (1759–1761).
1761	July	Archbishop Manuel Rojo del Rio y Vieyra of Manila appointed Governor-General (1761–1762).
1762		Silang Revolt (1762–63)
		Palaris Revolt (1762–1765)
		Camarines Revolt (1762–1764)
		Cebu Revolt (1762–1764)
		British forces looted and plundered many of Manila establishments through the so-called Rape of Manila.
	September 22	British fleet entered seizes Manila Bay as part of the Seven Years' War
	October 5	Manila fell under the British rule; start of the British occupation.
	October 6	Simón de Anda y Salazar appointed Governor-General (1762-17614) by the Real Audiencia. Provisional Government established in Bacolor, Pampanga with de Anda as dictator.
	November 2	The British East India Company commissioned The Rt Hon. Dawsonne Drake became the first British governor-general of the Philippines until 1764.
1763		Dabo and Marayac Revolt (1763)
		Isabela Revolt (1763).
	February 10	Treaty of Paris implicitly returns Manila to Spain.
	28 May	Deaths of Gabriela Silang, the only Filipina to have led a revolt, and her husband Diego.
1764	March 17	de Anda hands over the control of the colonial government to Francisco Javier de la Torre, newly appointed Governor-General (1764–1765)
	June 11	The last of the British ships that sailed to Manila leaves the Philippines for India, ending the British occupation.
1765	February 10	Royal Fiscal of Manila Don Francisco Léandro de Viana writes the famous letter to King Charles III of Spain, later called as "Viana Memorial of 1765". The document advised the king to abandon the colony due to the economic and social devastation created by the Seven Years' War. The suggestion was not heeded.
	July 6	José Antonio Raón y Gutiérrez appointed Governor-General (1765–1770)
		Governor Raon orders the minting of parallelogramic-shaped coins called barrillas, the first coined minted in the Philippines.
1769	July 23	The Society of Jesus in the Philippines is expelled by Raón after receiving a dated later from Charles III's chief minister Don Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea on March 1, 1767. The Jesuit's Properties are confiscated by the Spanish Colonial Government
1770	July	Simón de Anda y Salazar appointed Governor-General (1770–1776)
1771		Moro pirates traveled all over the country and raids many fishing villages in Manila Bay, Mariveles, Parañaque, Pasay and Malate.
1774	November 9	Parishes secularized by order of King Charles III of Spain.
1776	October 30	Pedro de Sarrio appointed Governor-General (1776–1778)
1778	July	José Basco y Vargas appointed Governor-General (1778–1787)
1780		Real Sociedad Economica de los Amigos del Pais de Filipinas (Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Philippines) introduced in the Philippines to offer local and foreign scholarships and professorships to Filipinos, and financed trips of scientists from Spain to the Philippines
1783		Bishop Mateo Joaquin de Arevalo of Cebu establishes the Colegio-Seminario de San Carlos(later renamed as the University of San Carlos) from the old building of the defunct Colegio de San Ildefonso, which was closed down in 1769 after the suppression of the Jesuits.
1785		Lagutao Revolt (1785).
	20 May	University of Santo Tomas granted Royal Title by King Charles III of Spain.[16][17]
1787	September 22	Pedro de Sarrio appointed Governor-General (1787–1788)
1788		Ilocos Norte Revolt (1788).
	April 2	Birth of the greatest Tagalog poet from Bulacan Francisco "Balagtas" Baltazar.
	July 1	Félix Berenguer de Marquina appointed Governor-General (1788–1793)
1793	September 1	Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León appointed Governor-General (1793–1806)

19th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1805		Nueva Vizcaya Revolt (1805)
1806	August 7	Mariano Fernández de Folgueras appointed Governor-General (1806–1810)
1807		Ambaristo Revolt (1807)
1808	May	French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte installs his brother Joseph Bonaparte as King of Spain.
1809	January 22	King Joseph Bonaparte gives Filipinos Spanish Citizenship and grants the colony representation in the Spanish Cortes
1810	March 4	Manuel Gonzalez de Aguilar appointed Governor-General (1806–1813)
1812	March 19	The Spanish Cortes promulgates the Cadiz Constitution
	September 24	The first Philippine delegates to the Spanish Cortes, Pedro Perez de Tagle and Jose Manuel Coretto take their oath of office in Madrid, Spain.
1813	September 4	José Gardoqui Jaraveitia appointed Governor-General (1806–1816)
	March 17	The Cadiz Constitution implemented in Manila
	October 16	Napoleon is defeated in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig
	October	British General Duke of Wellington drives the Napoleonic forces out of Spain
1814		Ferdinand VII proclaimed as King of Spain; Conservatives return to the Spanish Cortes
1815	June 18	Napoleon is defeated in Waterloo
	October 15	Napoleon is exiled in St. Helena's Island
1816		Cadiz Constitution is rejected by the conservative government and Filipino representation in the Spanish Cortes is abolished
	December 10	Mariano Fernández de Folgueras appointed Governor-General (1816–1822)
1822	October 30	Juan Antonio Martínez appointed Governor-General (1822–1825)
1825	October 14	Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca appointed Governor-General (1825–1830)
1828		Earthquake strikes Manila destroying many of its buildings
1830	December 23	Pascual Enrile y Alcedo appointed Governor-General (1830–1835)
		Manila is opened to the world market
1835	March 1	Gabriel de Torres appointed Governor-General (1835)
	April 23	Joaquín de Crámer appointed Governor-General (1835)
	September 9	Pedro Antonio Salazar Castillo y Varona appointed Governor-General (1835)
		Chamber of Commerce is formed
1837	August 27	Andrés García Camba appointed Governor-General (1837–1838)
		Manila is made an open port.
1838	December 29	Luis Lardizábal appointed Governor-General (1838–1841)
		Florante at Laura is published.
1841	February 14	Marcelino de Oraá Lecumberri appointed Governor-General (1841–1843)
	November 4	Apolinario Dela Cruz better known as Hermano Pule was executed.
1843	June 17	Francisco de Paula Alcalá de la Torre appointed Governor-General (1843–1844)
1844	July 16	Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa appointed Governor-General (1844–1849)
1849	December 26	Antonio María Blanco appointed Governor-General (1849–1850)
1850	July 29	Antonio de Urbistondo y Eguía appointed Governor-General (1850–1853)
1852	December 4	Glowing avalanche from Mt Hibok-Hibok.
1853	December 20	Ramón Montero y Blandino appointed Governor-General (1853–1854)
1854	February 2	Manuel Pavía y Lacy appointed Governor-General (1854)
	October 28	Ramón Montero y Blandino appointed Governor-General (1854)
	November 20	Manuel Crespo y Cebrían appointed Governor-General (1854)
1856	December 5	Ramón Montero y Blandino appointed Governor-General (1856–1857)
1857	January 12	Fernándo Norzagaray y Escudero appointed Governor-General (1857–1860)
1859		Jesuits return to the Philippines
		Jesuits takes over the Escuela Municipal and establishes the Ateneo Municipal
1860	January 12	Ramón María Solano y Llanderal appointed Governor-General (1860)
	August 29	Juan Herrera Dávila appointed Governor-General (1860–1861)
1861	February 2	José Lemery e Ibarrola Ney y González appointed Governor-General (1861–1862)
	June 19	Jose Rizal, Philippines' National Hero is born.
		Escuela de Artes Y Oficios de Bacolor established as Asia's oldest vocational school.
1862	July 7	Salvador Valdés appointed Governor-General (1862)
	July 9	Rafaél de Echagüe y Bermingham appointed Governor-General (1862–1865)
1863	June 3	An earthquake leaves Manila in ruins
	November 30	Andres Bonifacio, founder of the Katipunan, was born.
1864	July 23	Apolinario Mabini, the Brains of the Revolution, was born.
1865		University of Santo Tomas made the center for public instruction throughout the Philippines by royal decree of Queen Isabella II of Spain.[16][17]
		Observatorio Meteorológico del Ateneo Municipal de Manila (Manila Observatory) established by the Jesuits
	March 24	Joaquín del Solar e Ibáñez appointed Governor-General (1862–1865)
	April 25	Juan de Lara e Irigoyen appointed Governor-General (1862–1865)
1866	July 13	José Laureano de Sanz y Posse appointed Governor-General (1866)
	September 21	Juan Antonio Osorio appointed Governor-General (1866)
	September 27	Joaquín del Solar e Ibáñez appointed Governor-General (1866)
	October 26	José de la Gándara y Navarro appointed Governor-General (1866–1869)
1867		Colegio de Santa Isabel established in Naga by Bishop Francisco Gainza, OP of Nueva Caceres, through the royal decree of Queen Isabella II of Spain.
1869	November 17	Suez Canal opened
		Colegio de Santa Isabel inaugurated as the first Normal School in Southeast Asia
	June 7	Joaquín del Solar e Ibáñez appointed Governor-General (1866)
	June 23	José de la Gándara y Navarro appointed Governor-General (1869–1871)
1871		The Gabinete de Fisica of the University of Santo Tomas established as the first Museum in the Philippines.[16][17]
		The Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Santo Tomas is established as the first schools of Medicine and Pharmacy in the Philippines.[16][17]
	April 4	Rafael de Izquierdo y Gutíerrez appointed Governor-General (1871–1873)
1872	January 20	200 Filipino soldiers stage a mutiny in Cavite.
	February 17	Priests Mariano Gomez, José Apolonio Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora (together known as Gomburza) are implicated in the Cavite Mutiny and executed.
1873	January 8	Manuel MacCrohon appointed Governor-General (1873)
	January 24	Juan Alaminos y Vivar appointed Governor-General (1873–1874)
1874	March 17	Manuel Blanco Valderrama acting appointed Governor-General (1874)
	June 18	José Malcampo y Monje appointed Governor-General (1874–1877)
1875		The Colegio de San Jose incorporated into the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Santo Tomas.[16][17][24][25]
1877	February 28	Domingo Moriones y Murillo appointed Governor-General (1877–1880)
1880	March 20	Rafael Rodríguez Arias appointed Governor-General (1880)
	April 15	Fernando Primo de Rivera, 1st Marquis of Estella appointed Governor-General (1880–1883)(1st Term)
		Manila is connected through telegraphic cable Europe by Eastern Telecom.
	July 18	Two shocks of an earthquake create destruction from Manila to Santa Cruz, Luguna. Tremors continue until Aug 6
1882	March 3	Jose Rizal leaves for Spain to continue his medical studies
	June 2	Jose Rizal begins writing the Noli Me Tangere(novel)
1883	March 10	Emilio Molíns becomes acting Governor-General (1883). (First Term)
	April 7	Joaquín Jovellar appointed Governor-General (1883–1885)
1884		Required forced labor of 40 days a year is reduced to 15 days by the Spanish Colonial Government.
	June 21	Rizal finishes his medical studies in Spain
1885	April 1	Emilio Molíns becomes acting Governor-General (1885). (First Term)
	April 4	Emilio Terrero y Perinat appointed Governor-General (1885–1888)
1887	29 May	Noli Me Tangere published.
	October	Rizal starts writing the El Filibusterismo
		The Manila School of Agriculture is established.
1888	March 10	Antonio Molto becomes acting Governor-General (1888)
		Federico Lobaton became acting Governor-General (1888)
		Valeriano Wéyler appointed Governor-General (1888–1891)
	December 10	La Solidaridad established
1891	March 28	Rizal finishes writing El Filibusterismo in Biarritz, France
		El Filibusterismo published in Ghent, Belgium
		Eulogio Despujol appointed Governor-General (1891–1893)
1892	June 26	Rizal arrives in the Philippines from Europe via Hong Kong
	July 3	Rizal forms the La Liga Filipina
	July 7	Rizal is arrested for establishing the La Liga Filipina
	July 7	Andres Bonifacio secretly established the Katipunan.
	July 17	Rizal is exiled to Dapitan
	September 23	Filipino painter Juan Luna shot dead his wife Paz Pardo De Tavera.
1893	March 10	Federico Ochando becomes acting Governor-General (1893)
		Ramón Blanco appointed Governor-General (1893–1896)
1894	July 8	Bonifacio forms the Katipunan
1896	July 1	Rizal is recruited as a physician for the Spanish Army in Cuba by Governor Ramon Blanco
	August 6	Rizal returns to Manila from Cuba
	August 19	The Katipunan discovered by the Spanish Colonial Government. Katipuneros flee to Balintawak
	August 23	Revolution is proclaimed by Bonifacio at the Cry of Balintawak. Katipuneros tear up their cedulas
	August 26	Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto and other Katipuneros board Rizal's ship to Barcelona. They offer his rescue but Rizal refused
	August 30	Revolutionary Battle at San Juan del Monte. Governor Ramon Blanco proclaims a state of war in Manila, Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, Pampanga, Bulacan, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija.
	September 2	Rizal Boards the ship Isla de Panay for Barcelona
	September 12	Thirteen Filipinos were executed in Cavite.
	October 3	Rizal arrives at Barcelona
	October 4	Rizal is imprisoned in Montjuich by order of Capt. Gen. Despujo
	October 6	Rizal returns to Manila as a prisoner
	October 31	A new group of the Katipunan is formed in Cavite headed by Emilio Aguinaldo
	November 13	Rizal arrives in Manila and incarcerated in Fort Santiago
	November 20	Rizal is interrogated for charges against the Spanish Colonial Government
	December 13	Camilo Polavieja becomes acting Governor-General (1896–1897)
	December 30	Rizal is executed at Bagumbayan
1897	January 4	Eleven of the 15 Filipinos of Bicol were executed at the Luneta in Manila
	January 11	Thirteen Filipinos were executed at Bagumbayan
	March 22	The Katipunan holds its election. Emilio Aguinaldo is elected as president
	March 23	Nineteen Filipinos of Kalibo, Aklan were executed
	April 15	José de Lachambre becomes acting Governor-General (1897)
	April 23	Fernando Primo de Rivera appointed Governor-General (1897–1898)
	April 29	Katipuneros arrest Andres Bonifacio and his brothers Procopio and Ciriaco on orders of Aguinaldo with sedition and treason before a military court of the Katipunan.
	8 May	The Katipunan convicts and sentences Bonifacio brothers to death
	10 May	Andres Bonifacio and his brothers are executed at Mt. Buntis, Maragondon, Cavite.
	31 May	Aguinaldo establishes a Philippine republican government in Biak-na-Bato, San Miguel, Bulacan.
	August 10	Aguinaldo begins negotiating with the Spaniards colonial government in Manila with Pedro Paterno as representative.
	August 15	A 7.9 intensity estimated earthquake hits Luzon's northwest coast
	November 1	Constitution of Biak-na-Bato promulgated
	December 14	Pact of Biak-na-Bato between Aguinaldo and Governor Primo de Rivera signed
	December 27	Aguinaldo is self-exiled to Hong Kong following the Pact of Biak-na-Bato
1898	February 8	The Katipunan is revived by Emilio Jacinto and Feliciano Jocson
	April 11	Basilio Augustín appointed Governor-General (1898)
	April 24	The US government promises support in exchange for his cooperation. Aguinaldo agrees
	April 26	The US declares war on Spain.
	1 May	Commodore George Dewey attacks Manila
	19 May	Aguinaldo and his companions return to the Philippines from exile
	24 May	Aguinaldo proclaims a dictatorial government and issues two decrees which show his trust and reliance in US protection
	June 12	Aguinaldo proclaims Philippine Independence
	June 23	Aguinaldo changes the dictatorial government to revolutionary government.
	July 15	Aguinaldo creates a cabinet
	July 15	The Malolos Congress in established
	July 17	US reinforcements and troops arrive in the Philippines.
	July 24	Fermín Jáudenes becomes acting Governor-General (1898)
	August 13	Francisco Rizzo becomes acting Governor-General (1898)
	August 13	Wesley Merritt appointed Military Governor (1898)
	August 14	The Spanish surrender to the US after at mock battle of Manila
	August 29	Elwell S. Otis appointed Military Governor (1898–1900)
	September	Diego de los Ríos becomes acting Governor-General (1898)
	September 15	The Malolos Congress meets and elects its officers.
	October 11	The Manila Times released its first issue.
	December 10	Spain and the US sign the Treaty of Paris. Article III provides for the cession of the Philippines to the US by Spain and the payment of 20 million dollars to Spain by the US.
	December 21	US President McKinley issues the Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation
1899	January 20	US President McKinley appoints the First Philippine Commission, known as the Schurman Commission
	January 21	The Malolos Constitution is promulgated by Aguinaldo.
	January 23	The Malolos Republic government is inaugurated. Aguinaldo takes his oath of office as President.
	February 4	Hostilities break out between the Filipino and US forces.
	February 6	The US Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Spain
	March 4	The Schurman Commission arrives in Manila
	6 May	Aguinaldo creates a new cabinet
	18 May	General Vicente Alvarez establishes the Republic of Zamboanga.
	20 May	Aguinaldo's moves face opposition from Apolinario Mabini and Antonio Luna
	June 5	Antonio Luna killed
	December 2	Gregorio Del Pilar killed in the Battle of Tirad Pass
1900	January 21	The Schurman Commission returns to the US.
	February 2	Manila Bulletin released its first issue.
	March 16	US President McKinley appoints the second Philippine Commission, known as the Taft Commission
	5 May	Arthur MacArthur, Jr appointed Military Governor (1900–1901)
	June 3	The Taft Commission arrives in Manila
	December 23	Partido Liberal established

20th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1901	March 2	The Army Appropriation Act, also known as the Spooner Amendment, is passed by the US Senate.
	March 23	Aguinaldo is captured by US authorities.
	April 1	Aguinaldo takes an oath of allegiance to the US.
	June 17	El Colegio de San Beda established
	July 4	Adna Chaffee appointed as the last US Military Governor (1901–1902)
	July 4	A civil government is established in the Philippines with William Howard Taft as the first Civil Governor (1901–1904)
	July 18	The US organizes the Philippine Constabulary
	August 28	Silliman Institute, later known as Silliman University, is established as the first American university in the Philippines
	September	The first Filipino members of the second Philippine Commission are appointed
	September 27	Guerillas, headed by the Filipino Captain Daza, attack the US military barracks in Balangiga, Samar
	September 28	Balangiga massacre occurs
	October 20	A U.S. Marine battalion arrives on Samar to conduct the March across Samar operation
	November 4	The Philippine Commission enacts the Sedition Law
	December 14	An earthquake estimated of magnitude 7.8 shakes Lucena City.
1902	January	The first labor union of The Country, Union de Litografose Impresores de Filipinas, is organized.
	January 21	The Philippine Commission calls for the organization of Public Schools in the Philippines.
	March 30	The US Marines leave Balangiga
	April 16	General Miguel Malvar surrenders to the US forces
	May	Governor Taft negotiates with Pope Leo XIII the sale of the friar lands in the Philippines
	May 2	Macario Sakay establishes a second Tagalog Republic.
	July 1	The Philippine Organic Act was enacted.
	July 1	Cooper Act is passed by the US Senate. Philippine Assembly is established
	July 4	Americans proclaim the end of the Philippine–American War, however fighting continues
	August 3	The Foundation of Iglesia Filipina Independiente separated from Roman Catholic Church was proclaimed by The Union Obrera Democratica withGregorio Aglipay as The 1st Obispo Maximo
	September 17	Pope Leo XIII formally bestows a Pontifical title on the University of Santo Tomas[16][17]
	November 12	Bandolerism Act passed by the Philippine Commission. All armed resistance against US rule are considered banditry
1903		Governor Taft enunciates the policy of The Philippines for the Filipinos
	June 1	Moro Province was established.
1904	February 1	Luke Edward Wright appointed as Civil Governor (1904–1905)
	October 19	The Manila Business School was founded and started its operation (later as the Philippine School of Commerce, 1908, then as the Philippine College of Commerce, 1952, and now the Polytechnic University of the Philippines).
1905	November 3	Henry Clay Ide appointed as Civil Governor (1905–1906)
1906	September 20	James Francis Smith appointed as Civil Governor (1906–1909)
	December 3	St. Scholastica's College established by the Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing
1907	June 3	Centro Escolar University established as Centro Escolar de Señoritas.
	June 30	First Congressional Elections held
	September 13	Macario Sakay is executed by hanging, ending his Tagalog Republic.
	October 16	The First Philippine Assembly is convened.
1908	June 18	The University of the Philippines is established in Manila.
1911	January 27	Mt Taal erupts, and kills 1,334 people
	June 16	De La Salle University-Manila is founded as De La Salle College by the Brothers of Christian Schools.
	December 28	Tricentennial of the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas[16][17]
1913	September 1	Newton W. Gilbert appointed as acting Civil Governor (1913)
	October 6	Francis Burton Harrison appointed as Civil Governor (1913–1921)
1914	July 27	Iglesia ni Cristo (largest independent church in Asia) is registered to the government.
1916	October 16	The Jones Law is passed establishing an all-Filipino legislature
	October 16	Manuel Quezon elected Senate President while Sergio Osmenna is elected as House Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
1917	January 11	The first cabinet of Filipinos under the US regime is organized.
	March 10	Ambos Camarines Dissolved; Split into Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur.
1919	September 19	The silent film Dalagang Bukid by José Nepomuceno was released, the first film to be produced locally.
1921	March 5	Charles Yeater appointed as acting Civil Governor (1921)
	October 14	Leonard Wood appointed as Civil Governor (1921–1927)
1927	August 7	Eugene Allen Gilmore appointed as acting Civil Governor (1927)
	December 27	Henry L. Stimson appointed as Civil Governor (1927–1929)
1929	February 23	Eugene Allen Gilmore appointed as acting Civil Governor (1929)
	July 8	Dwight F. Davis appointed as Civil Governor (1929–1932)
1930	November 30	The Communist Party of the Philippines is formally established
1932	January 9	George C. Butte appointed as acting Civil Governor (1932)
	February 29	Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. appointed as Civil Governor (1932–1933)
	June 20	Adamson School of Industrial Chemistry (ASIC) later known as Adamson University was founded by George Lucas Adamson
	October 26	The Communist Party of the Philippines is declared illegal by the Supreme Court
1933	July 15	Frank Murphy appointed as the last Civil Governor of the Philippines (1933–1935)
	December 7	Governor-General Frank Murphy granted the Right of Suffrage to the Filipino women.
1934	March 24	The Tydings-McDuffie Law, known as the Philippine Independence Law, is approved by US President Roosevelt.
	July 10	202 delegates are elected to the Constitutional Convention in accordance with the Tydings-McDuffie Law
	July 30	The Philippine Constitutional Convention is inaugurated
1935	February 8	The Constitutional Convention creates a new constitution
	February 15	The Philippine Constitution is signed
	May 2	The Sakdalista uprising
	14 May	The Philippine electorate ratifies the Constitution in a referendum
	September 17	Manuel Quezon elected President in the first Philippine Presidential elections
	November 15	The Philippine Commonwealth is inaugurated
	November 15	The Office of Civil Governor is abolished
1936	March 25	President Manuel L. Quezon issued Executive Order No. 23 which provided for the technical description and specifications of the Philippine national flag.
1937	February 3–7	33rd International Eucharistic Congress was held in Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines; first in Asia.
1939	July 15	DZRH (KZRH) the first commercial radio station in the Philippines was founded by Samuel Gaches, the owner of H. E. Heacock Company, a department store company based in Escolta, Binondo, Manila.
1941	November 11	Manuel Quezon re-elected as President
	December 8	Start of the Japanese Invasion of the Philippines
	December 20	President Quezon, his family and the war cabinet move to Corregidor Island
	December 26	General MacArthur declares Manila an open city
	December 28	Filipino and US armies retreat to Bataan
	December 30	Manuel Quezon takes his oath of Office at the Corregidor Island
1942	January 2	Japanese troops enters Manila
	January 3	Masaharu Homma appointed as Japanese Military Governor (1942)
	January 3	General Masaharu Homma declares the end of American Rule in the Philippines
	January 3	Martial Law declared
	January 13	All forms of opposition against the Japanese forces declared subject to death penalty
	January 23	An executive committee, composed of Filipinos, is formed by General Homma as a conduit of the military administration's policies and requirements.
	February 17	The Japanese Military Government issues an order adopting the Japanese educational system in The Country
	February 20	President Quezon and the war cabinet leave for the US
	March 11	General MacArthur leaves for Australia to take command of the South Western Pacific Area
	March 13	The Commonwealth government is moved to the US
	March 29	The People's Anti-Japanese Army or Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon (Hukbalahap) is organized.
	April	A pro-US resistance movement is organized, mainly to provide data to the US on enemy positions
	April 9	Bataan, under US commander General Edward King, is the last province that surrenders to the Japanese armies.
	May 6	Corregidor Island falls to Japanese forces
	June 8	Shizuichi Tanaka appointed as Japanese Military Governor (1942–1943)
	June 14	The Commonwealth of the Philippines becomes a member of the United Nations
	December 30	The Kalibapi is organized by the Japanese
1943	May 28	Shigenori Kuroda appointed as Japanese Military Governor (1943–1942)
	June 20	Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo nominates an all Filipino 20 member Preparatory Commission for Philippine Independence
	September 4	The Philippine Preparatory Commission for Independence drafts a new Constitution which provides for a unicameral national assembly
	September 20	The 108 delegates to the National Assembly are chosen by the members of the Preparatory Commission for Philippine Independence.
	September	Jose P. Laurel elected President of the Philippines by the National Assembly
	October 14	The puppet government is inaugurated. Laurel takes his oath of office
	November	The Philippine economy collapses, the shortage of rice becomes serious.
1944	May	The puppet government inaugurates the Green Revolution Movement.
	August 1	Sergio Osmena assumes the Office of the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines after the death of Manuel Quezon
	September 21	US forces raids Manila
	September 26	Tomoyuki Yamashita appointed as Japanese Military Governor (1944–1945)
	October 20	General MacArthur lands in Palo, Leyte, accompanied by President Sergio Osmena and US troops
	October 23	The Commonwealth government of the Philippines is re-established in Tacloban, Leyte
	December 8	Pro-Japanese Philippine generals Pio Duran and Benigno Ramos organize the Makapilis
1945	January 30	Raid at Cabanatuan: 121 American soldiers and 800 Filipino guerrillas free 813 American Prisoners of war from the Japanese-held camp in the city of Cabanatuan in the Philippines.
	February 4	US troops enter Manila
	February 22	Hukbalahap troop leaders arrested by the US forces
	February 24	The Battle of Manila ends. The Japanese surrender to the combined US and Filipino troops
	February 27	MacArthur hands over Malacanang Palace to Osmena.
	March 3	The US and Filipino troops recaptured Manila.
	March 16	Establishment of the Congress of Labor Organizations (CLO), a federation of labor organizations organized by former leaders of the Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa mga Hapon (Hukbalahap).[26]
	March 22	The families of pro-Japanese President Laurel and Speaker Aquino leave The Country for Japan to seek refuge
	June 5	The Congress elected in 1941 convenes for the first time
	July 5	General MacArthur announces the liberation of the Philippines
	August 6	The American forces drop an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan.
	August 9	The American forces an atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan.
	August 15	The Empire of Japan accepts defeat
	August 17	Philippines President José P. Laurel issues an Executive Proclamation putting an end to the Second Philippine Republic, thus ending to his term as President of the Philippines.
	September 2	The final official Japanese Instrument of Surrender is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet AdmiralChester W. Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
	September 12	Jose P. Laurel is arrested by the US army
	October 24	The United Nations is founded by ratification of its Charter, by 29 nations.
	December	Manuel Roxas separates from the Nacionalista Party of Sergio Osmena Sr and joins the Liberal Party
1946	April 23	Manuel Roxas wins in the last Presidential Election under the Commonwealth
	July 4	The United States recognizes the Independence of the Republic of the Philippines
	September 30	The Amended Tenancy Act is promulgated.
1947	January 28	President Roxas issues an amnesty proclamation to collaborators
	March 6	HUKBALAHAP declared illegal
	March 14	The Treaty of General Relations between Philippines and United States was signed.
	April 15	President Roxas dies from a heart attack at Clark Air Field; Vice President Quirino Assumes the Office of President
	April 17	Elpidio Quirino takes his oath of office as President of the Philippines
	September 8	The Philippine representative to the Far Eastern Commission, Carlos P. Romulo, signs the Japanese Peace Treaty
1949	April 28	Aurora Quezon (widow of Pres. Manuel Quezon) was ambushed by the Hukbalahap in Bongabon, Nueva Ecija.
1950	August 31	President Quirino appoints Ramon Magsaysay as Secretary of the Department of National Defense
		The Philippines joins the Korean War, sending over 7,000 troops under the United Nations command.
1951	August	The National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) is established
	August 30	The Mutual Defense Treaty between Philippines and United States was signed.
	October 8	Nicasio “Asiong” Salonga, branded as Tondo’s Public Enemy No. 1 and the kingpin of Manila, was killed during a drinking spree when he was shot by Ernesto Reyes, a henchman of Salonga’s rival and also-notorious gang leader Carlos “Totoy Golem” Capistrano.[27]
1953	November 10	Ramon Magsaysay is elected President of the Republic of the Philippines
	December 30	Magsaysay takes his oath of office
1954	July 21	The Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty is signed in Manila, creating the South East Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO)
	September 2	At least 82 people were killed in a train crash in Negros Occidental.
	December 15	The Laurel-Langley Agreement is signed
1957	March 17	President Magsaysay dies in a plane crash; Vice-President Carlos P. Garcia assumes the presidency
	November 14	Carlos P. Garcia elected President of the Republic of the Philippines
1958	August 28	The Filipino first policy is promulgated
1960	February 8	Birth of Benigno Aquino III, President of the Philippines.
1961	January 18	Baguio City experience cold at 6.3-degree Celsius, the country's lowest temperature ever recorded.
	December 7	Diosdado Macapagal elected President of the Republic of the Philippines.
	December 30	Macapagal takes his oath of office
1962	May 12	Independence Day is changed to June 12 by Diosdado Macapagal
1963	April 12	Death of Felix Y. Manalo, founder of Iglesia ni Cristo at age of 76
	July 28	A total of 60 people, including 24 Filipino boy scouts and scout officials en route to Athens, Greece for the 11th World Jamboree, perished when the United Arab Airlines Flight 869 crashed into the Arabian Sea a few miles off Bombay, India.[28]
	August 8	Diosdado Macapagal Signed the Agricultural Land Reform Code
1965	November 9	Ferdinand Marcos elected President of the Republic of the Philippines
	December 30	Ferdinand Marcos takes his oath of office
1966		With the enactment of Republic Act No. 4695, the huge old Mountain Province was abolished and split into four provinces: Benguet, Mountain Province, Kalinga-Apayao and Ifugao.
1967	August 8	ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nation) was formed.
1968	March 18	Jabidah massacre
	December 26	A new Communist Party of the Philippines established by Jose Maria Sison.
1969	March 29	Jose Maria Sison formally organizes the military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines, The New People's Army
	May 11	Tuguegarao City in Cagayan experienced heat at 42.2 degrees Celsius, the country's highest temperature ever recorded.
	July 19	Miss Philippines Gloria Diaz was crowned Miss Universe 1969.
	November 11	Ferdinand Marcos re-elected President of the Republic of the Philippines
1970	January	First Quarter Storm begins.
	November 17	Elections for 315 members of a Constitutional Convention held.
	November 27	Pope Paul VI makes his first papal visit in the Philippines, but survived an assassination attempt by Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores at Manila International Airport.
1971	February 1–9	Diliman commune
	June 1	The Constitutional Convention assembles to rewrite the 1935 Constitution. The Convention elects former President Carlos Garcia as its head.
	June 14	Garcia dies and former President Diosdado Macapagal takes over the top position at the Convention.
	August 21	Plaza Miranda bombed during the election campaign of the Liberal Party
	August 22	President Marcos suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus
	October 10	Leonardo “Nardong Putik” Manecio, one of the most notorious gangsters and dubbed as Cavite’s Public Enemy No. 1 was killed in Imus after NBIagents engaged him in a highway shootout.[27]
1972		Suspicious bombing incidents increase all over The Country . The MNLF launches its campaign for the independence of the Muslim provinces.
	September 21	President Marcos signs the Martial Law Edict (at that time not publicly announced).
	September 22	Assassination attempt on Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile
		Marcos places the entire country under martial law
	September 23	The implementation of martial law is officially announced
		Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is arrested
	September 26	The whole country is proclaimed a land reform area and an Agrarian Reform Program is decreed.
	October 21	Marcos passes the Tenant's Emancipation Patent
	October 21	The first major armed defiance of martial law takes place in Lanao del Sur
	October 22	The battle between the MNLF and the government troops ends with the latter regaining control of the city.
	November 29	The Constitutional Convention passes the new Constitution of the Philippines.
1973		Misuari leaves The Country for Libya to solicit armed support from Muslim countries for the war in Mindanao.
	January 10	A plebiscite referendum is held among the citizens' assemblies to ratify the new Constitution
	January 15	Infamous Chinese drug lord Lim Seng faced his public execution by firing squad at a lot behind the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Fort Bonifacio,[29] the country's first and last of its kind in the post-war Philippine history.
	April	The National Democratic Front (NDF), the united front organization of the Communist Party of the Philippines, is formally organized.
	July 21	Miss Philippines Margarita Moran was crowned Miss Universe 1973.
	July 27	Marcos' term as President extended by virtue of a referendum
	November 22	Dissolution of Empire Province of Cotabato.
1974	February 27	Presidential appointments to local elective positions declared legal by virtue of another referendum
	March 11	Japanese lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, one of the longest-remaining Japanese holdouts, formally surrendering his sword to President Marcos atMalacañang Palace after continuing to fight for 29 years in the Lubang Island.[29]
	December 1	Jose Sison's essay entitled Specific Characteristics of Our People's War published
1975	October 2	Thrilla in Manila
1976	January 4	New people's Army Spokesman Satur Ocampo arrested
	August 17	An earthquake of 7.8 magnitude and a following tsunami (flood wave) kills 8,000 people on and off the coast of Mindanao.
	August 26	Kumander Dante of the New People's Army arrested
	October 16	Martial Law allowed to exted by virtue of a Plebicte
	December 23	Tripoli Agreement signed
1977	January 20	The Armed Forces of the Philippines enters into a ceasefire agreement with the MNLF.
	March 4	President Marcos issues a decree creating the autonomous Bangsa Moro Islamic Government
	November 10	The CPP head Jose Maria Sison arrested
	November 25	The Military Commission found Benigno Aquino, Jr. guilty of all charges and sentenced him to death by firing squad. but he escaped execution.
	December 16	A referendum is held, the result of which again empowers the President to continue in office, and to become Prime Minister as well.
1978		Rodolfo Salas takes over the leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
	April 8	Members of the Interim Batasang Pambansa are elected.
1979	July 30	Eat Bulaga!, the longest running noon-time variety show in the Philippines, premiered on RPN. It was also aired on ABS-CBN from 1989 to 1995 and on GMA Network since 1995.
1981	January 18	Martial law lifted.
	February 17–21	Pope John Paul II visited the Philippines for his first papal visit.
	June 16	Philippine general election and referendum, 1981 (Ferdinand Marcos re-elected to a third term).
	June 30	Finance Minister Cesar Virata is elected Prime Minister by the Batasang Pambansa
	November 17	Accident during the construction of the Manila Film Center, 169 were killed.
1983	August 21	Benigno Aquino, Jr. assassinated
1984	May 14	Philippine parliamentary election, 1984
1985	June 12	New Design Banknotes Released
	December 2	Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of staff General Fabian Ver and 25 others were acquitted.
	December 9	Philippine Daily Inquirer released its first issue.
1986	February 7	Philippine presidential election, 1986
	February 9	Thirty computer technicians of the Commission on Elections walked out of their jobs after they were ordered to cheat the election returns in favor ofPresident Marcos.[26]
	February 16	Batasang Pambansa declared Marcos and Arturo Tolentino as President and Vice-President, respectively. Corazon Aquino, widow of Benigno Aquino, Jr., expressed protest.
	February 22–25	EDSA Revolution ousts President Marcos; Corazon Aquino becomes president February 22 – Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Philippine Constabulary Chief General Fidel Ramos withdrew from the Marcos administration. February 23 – People supported the uprising of Enrile and Ramos and they expressed support for Corazon Aquino as the real new president. February 25 – Aquino was sworn in as President by Senior Associate Justice Claudio Teehankee, and Salvador Laurel as Vice-President by Justice Vicente Abad Santos, at Club Filipino in San Juan. Aquino appointed Enrile as Defense Secretary and Ramos as AFP Chief of Staff.Marcos and his family left the country aboard American plane to Hawaii at evening. Thus, the EDSA People Power Revolution ended.
	March 25	Aquino abolishes Interim Batasang Pambansa and the constitution and adopts Freedom Constitution.
	July 28	The Philippine Star released its first issue.
1987	January 22	Mendiola massacre occurred, 13 people were killed
	February 2	Aquino adopts a new constitution by separating the House of Representatives and the Senate from the Interim Batasang Pambansa.
	February 11	Manila Standard (now The Standard) released its first issue.
	March 2	TV Patrol, the longest-running Filipino spoken evening newscast, starts its broadcast on ABS-CBN.
	May 11	Philippine legislative election, 1987
	August 28–29	Coup attempt takes place when rebel soldiers made a threatened reprisal against Aquino and ended in a gunfight with 50 people killed and 200 wounded as Government troops fizzled the plot.
	October 18	Canonization of San Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino saint
	December 20	The passenger ferry MV Doña Paz and the oil tanker MT Vector are collided and sank in Tablas Strait, killing 4,341 passengers and crew. The collision made as the deadliest peace-time maritime disaster of the 20th century.
1988	October 17	Interior Bases Agreement was signed by the Philippines and United States.
1989	August 1	Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao region was first created through Republic Act No. 6734 (the Organic Act).
	September 28	Death of Ferdinand Marcos
	December 1–9	The most serious coup d'etat against the government of Philippine President Corazon Aquino was staged by members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines belonging to the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) and soldiers loyal to former President Ferdinand Marcos led by ColonelGregorio Honasan, General Edgardo Abenina, and retired General Jose Ma. Zumel.
1990	July 16	The Luzon earthquake struck with a surface wave magnitude of 7.8. The earthquake caused damage within an area of about 20,000 square kilometers, stretching from the mountains of the Cordillera Administrative Region and through the Central Luzon region.
1991	January 29	Merger of the Philippine Constabulary with the Integrated National Police to form the Philippine National Police.
	June 15	Mount Pinatubo erupts in what will be the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; the final death toll tops 800.
	June 30	The massacre of Estrellita, Carmela, and Jennifer Vizconde.
	July 13	Hultman-Chapman murder case
	September 16	Senate of the Philippines rejects renewal of U.S military bases in the Philippines
	November 4–5	Tropical Storm Uring lashes into Eastern Visayas, leaving 8,000 people dead as a result of widespread flooding in the coastal city of Ormoc, Leyte.
1992	May 11	Philippine general election, 1992 (Fidel V. Ramos is elected)
1993	June 28	Sarmienta-Gomez Rape-slay case.
	September 11	Ferdinand Marcos remains was laid to rest in Batac, Ilocos Norte.
	September 24	Biggest corruption case in the Philippines. Former first lady Imelda Marcos was convicted for the first time of corruption and sentenced to 24 years in prison.[26]
1994	March 29	The Philippines gets connected to the Internet.
	November 15	Mindoro Earthquake
1995	January 6	Discovery of Bojinka plot.
	January 10–15	Pope John Paul II visited the Philippines for the World Youth Day held in Manila.
	March 17	Flor Contemplacion was executed in Singapore.
	April 30	President Ramos inaugurated the opening of Subic International Airport (formerly a United States military base). This indicates growth after the removal of military bases in the country.
	May 8	Philippine general election, 1995
	November 27	The construction of the Skyway project was initiated, the biggest infrastructure project in the country that was intended to ease the flow of traffic inMetro Manila.
1996	March 18	Fire razes Ozone Disco, killing 162 guests including college graduating students and 95 more injured.
	March 24	Marcopper mining disaster
	August 4	Onyok Velasco won the silver medal after he defeated the enemy in the semifinal round (boxing). But he lost a gold medal after defeated by theBulgarian at the end of 1996 Atlanta Olympics. However, Velasco returned in the country as a hero and received over ₱10-million total prize.
	September 2	A permanent peace agreement is signed at the Malacañan Palace between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front.
	November 24–25	8th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit was held in Subic.
1997	July	Asian financial crisis
1998	May 11	Philippine general election, 1998 (Joseph Estrada is elected)
	June 12	Centennial of Philippine Independence
1999	February 5	Leo Echegaray was the first Filipino to be executed by lethal injection at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City.
2000	January 1	The Philippines celebrates the new 2000 millennium nationwide.
	March 15	President Estrada declares an "all-out-war" against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
	April 19	Air Philippines Flight 541 Boeing 737-2H4 crashed in Island Garden City of Samal, Davao del Norte, killing 131, the worst air disaster in the Philippine history.
	July 10	Payatas landslide
	November 13	President Estrada impeached by House of Representatives
	December 7	The Senate formally initiated the proceedings in impeachment case against President Estrada. Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. presided the trial.
	December 30	Rizal Day bombings

21st century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
2001	January 16	After 11 senators voted not to open the second envelope, which containing the documents against President Estrada, the prosecutors walked out.
	January 17–20	Second EDSA Revolution lasted 4 days. January 17 – The historic EDSA Revolution II in the People Power Shrine began. January 20 – EDSA II Revolution ousts Joseph Estrada; vice-president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo becomes president
	April 30	EDSA III
	May 14	Philippine general election, 2001
2002	March 5	Mindanao earthquake
2003	July 27	Oakwood mutiny
2004	May 10	Philippine general election, 2004 (Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo elected to a six-year term)
	November 16	Hacienda Luisita massacre occurred, 14 were killed.
2005	June 27	Hello Garci scandal (Legitimacy of declared election winners questioned)
2006	February 17	Southern Leyte mudslide
	February 24	A state of emergency was declared in February in response to coup rumours.
2007	May 14	Philippine general election, 2007
	September 12	The Sandiganbayan convicted former president Joseph Estrada for plunder and sentenced him to reclusion perpetua while acquitting him and his co-accused on other charges.
	October 19	Glorietta mall explosion
	November 13	An explosion at the House of Representatives building in Quezon City kills four people.
	November 29	Manila Peninsula mutiny
2008	May 16	Eight employees and a security guard of a Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) branch in Cabuyao, Laguna were killed in a bank robbery.
	June 21	The MV Princess of the Stars, owned by Sulpicio Lines that carried 626 passengers and 121 crew members, stalled in rough seas near Sibuyan Island.
2009	January 15	Three International Committee of the Red Cross volunteers were kidnapped by the rebel group Abu Sayyaf
	August 1	Death of former president Corazon Aquino.
	August 31	Death of Eraño Manalo, Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo.
	September 26	Great Flood because of Typhoon Ondoy
	November 23	Maguindanao massacre
2010	May 10	The 2010 Philippine general elections, also the first national computerized election in the Philippine history, took place.
	June 9	President-elect Benigno Aquino III won the Presidential election, being the 15th President of the Philippines.
	June 30	Inauguration of the President-elect Benigno Aquino III took place, officially declaring him as the 15th President of the Philippines.
	August 23	The hostage crisis in Manila took place, killing eight Hong Kong holidaymakers.
	October 16	Typhoon Juan, officially as Typhoon Megi, hits northeastern Luzon at Sierra Madre, creating widespread damage over Luzon. (to October 18)
	December 14	Vizconde Massacre Case Finished. Result Webb's Freedom
	December 16	Philippine New Banknotes Released
2011	January 24	UST Quadricentennial Celebration
	July 26	The Heroism of 12-year-old Schoolgirl Janela Lelis.
	November 18	Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was arrested.
	December 12	188 members of the House of Representatives signed an impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Renato Corona.
2012	May 29	20 of 23 Senators voted to find Chief Justice Renato Corona guilty on Article II of the Articles of Impeachment filed against him, removing him from office.
	October 15	The Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro is signed which seeks for the creation of a new autonomous political entity, Bangsamoro replacing the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao.
	October 21	Canonization of San Pedro Calungsod
2013	May 13	Philippine general election, 2013
	May 15	The Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, commonly known as K–12 program was signed.
	July 27	The United Federated States of Bangsamoro Republik (UFSBR) declares it independence from the Philippines
	September 28	The UFSBR ceases to exists as it is defeated in the Zamboanga City crisis.
	October 15	At 8:12 a.m. (PST) in the morning, the Bohol province suffered a severe earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 Ms. Its epicenter was located at a depth of 33 kilometres (21 mi), 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of Carmen, Bohol, and 629 kilometres (391 mi) from the Philippines' capital, Manila. The quake was felt as far as Davao City, a city located in the island of Mindanao. Ninety-nine were reported dead while 276 people were injured. It was the deadliest earthquake in the Philippines in 23 years. The energy of the quake released was equivalent to 32 Hiroshima bombs dropped inHiroshima, Japan during the World War II.
	November 8	Typhoon Haiyan known in the Philippines as "Yolanda" hits Regions MIMAROPA, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, and Eastern Visayas resulting of 6,201 deaths, 27,665 injured, 1,785 missing and ₱138,552,546.55 (US$3,208,322.78) total damages.
2014	February 15	More than 519,221 members of the Iglesia ni Cristo joined the Worldwide Walk For Those Affected by Typhoon Yolanda held in Manila and in selected sites in the Philippines and abroad.
	March 27	The Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro was signed.
	May 23	The Philippines and Indonesia signed a maritime treaty that draws the boundary of the two countries' overlapping Exclusive Economic Zone inMindanao and Celebes seas.
	July 27	The Centennial Celebration of the Iglesia ni Cristo.
	July 27	Philippines marks a milestone in its population growth identifying the birth of a baby girl in a Manila hospital as the 100 millionth Filipino.
	September 10	President Aquino III lead the handover of the draft of the Bangsamoro Basic Law to the Senate and House leaders in a historical turnover ceremony at the Malacaňang.
	November 20	Ozone Disco Club fire Case Finished. Result 7 officials of Quezon City convicted.
	December 6	Typhoon Ruby, officially as Typhoon Hagupit hits Western Visayas, and Eastern Visayas, creating widespread damage over Visayas.
	December 29	BSP announces demonetizing the old Philippine Banknotes (issued in 1985).
2015	January 15–19	The Papal visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines.
	January 25	44 PNP-SAF Officers were killed in Maguindanao.
	February 25	The AFP declared its all-out offensive campaign against the MILF break away group, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
	April 14	Death of Ameril Umbra Kato, the founding leader of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
	April 29	The execution of the convicted Filipina drug mule Mary Jane Veloso was postponed.
	May 3	Manny Pacquiao was defeated by Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the so-called Battle For Greatness in MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada.
	May 3	Abdul Basit Usman, the most wanted bomb expert in the country, was killed by a MILF group unit in Guindulungan, Maguindanao.
	May 13	Kentex Manufacturing slippers factory fire occurred. Result 72 employees were killed.
	June 5	President Benigno Aquino III signed Executive Order 183 that created the Negros Island Region.
	June 28	Death of Kumander Parago, the top commander of the New People’s Army.
	July 23	The Iglesia ni Cristo has expelled Tenny and Angel Manalo.
	July 27	President Benigno Aquino III takes sixth State of the Nation Address.
	August 27–31	Iglesia ni Cristo members staged demonstrations near the DOJ office and later in EDSA.
	October 18	Typhoon Lando officially as Typhoon Koppu hits northern and central Luzon, creating widespread damage and floods over Luzon.
	November 18–19	APEC Philippines 2015 was held, which concluded with the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.
	December 14–19	Typhoon Nona devastates parts of the Philippines, killing 41 and cost ₱2 billion in damages.
	December 21	Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach was crowned Miss Universe 2015.
2016	January 24–31	51st International Eucharistic Congress was held in Cebu City, Philippines.
	February 10	The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority announces that it has documented more than 400 additional islands.
	February 29	Re-interment of the remains of the late former President Elpidio Quirino was held in Libingan ng mga Bayani on his 60th death anniversary.
	March 23	Diwata-1 was launched to the International Space Station aboard the Cygnus spacecraft on a supply mission.
	April 1	At least 3 are killed and several others were wounded when police dispersed a farmers' protest action in Kidapawan.
	April 9	18 soldiers and 5 Abu Sayyaf bandits are killed during a clash in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan.
	May 9	The 2016 National and Local elections was held
	May 30	Rodrigo Duterte and Leni Robredo were proclaimed as the new President and Vice President of the Philippines.
	June 30	Rodrigo Duterte is inaugurated as the 16th President of the Philippines with Leni Robredo as the 14th Vice President of the Philippines.