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On February 8, 1597, Philip II, near the end of his 42-year reign, issued a Royal Cedula instructing Francisco de Tello de Guzmán, then Governor-General of the Philippines to fulfill the laws of tributes and to provide for restitution of ill-gotten taxes taken from indigenous Filipinos. The decree was published in Manila on August 5, 1598.
SIMON DE ANDA Y SALAZAR—Native of Subijana, born October 28, 1701; auditor; appointed by Audiencia lieutenant of the governor and captain-general; leaves Manila, October 4, 1762; establishes capital in Bacolor, Pampanga, and has himself proclaimed governor; British maintain archbishop as governor until his death, who cedes islands to them ...
(Governor-General Dwight Filley Davis) On July 8, 1929, Dwight Filley Davis arrived in Manila to assume the post of Governor-General of the Philippines. He was appointed by U.S. President Herbert Hoover to succeed Henry L. Stimson. He was accompanied by his daughter, Alice, in the place of her mother who was unable to accompany him for reasons of health.
The US first appointed governor generals in 1898, after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. The first civilian governor-general, future president William Howard Taft, began his term in 1901. The office would continue until the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935. The title of the governor-general's report varied ...
ON October 15, 1921, Major-General Leonard Wood took the oath of office as Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, and a new period in the history of America’s great Oriental possession began.
Today in Filipino history, July 9, 1862, Rafael de Echague y Bermingham became Spanish governor-general of the Philippines. On Juy 9, 1862, Rafael de Echague y Bermingham arrived in Manila to become Spanish governor-general succeeding Jose Lemery e Ibarrola Ney. Before his appointment, Salvador Valdes was serving as acting governor-general.
Commanding General-Philippine Republic "Tan Juan" (Don Juan) nom de guerre; Secretary of War of Republic of Negros "Acta de Capitulacion-1898” - documented the surrender of the last Spanish Governor General, Don Diego de Los Rios to Gen. Aniceto Ledesma Lacson (Presidente) and Gen. Juan “Tan Juan” Araneta (Secretary of War)in Bacolod City
