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Political history of the Philippines. Emilio Aguinaldo, who led the Philippine Revolution against Spain, and Manuel L. Quezon, President of the autonomous Commonwealth of the Philippines under the United States. Early polities in what is now the Philippines were small entities known as barangays, although some larger states were established ...
History of the Philippines. Earliest hominin activity in the Philippine archipelago is dated back to at least 709,000 years ago. Homo luzonensis, a species of archaic humans, was present on the island of Luzon at least 67,000 years ago. The earliest known anatomically modern human was from Tabon Caves in Palawan dating about 47,000 years.
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Although the details vary in the retelling, one Philippine creation myth focuses on this core element: a piece of bamboo, emerging from the primordial earth, split apart by the beak of a powerful bird. From the bamboo a woman and man come forth, the progenitors of the Filipino people. The genesis of the Philippine nation, however, is a more complic...
During the late eighteenth century, revolutionaries such as Gabriela and Diego Silang fought for a free Ilocano nation in the northern Philippines. Other revolutionaries emerged, and by the end of the nineteenth century, leaders such as Andrés Bonifacio and Emilio Jacinto were pressuring Spanish leadership on several fronts. Future national hero Jo...
Scholars argue that the execution of Rizal inspired a broader fight for freedom from the Spanish government. Led by heroes such as Bonifacio, the Philippine Revolution began in 1896 and included numerous battles against Spanish forces on multiple fronts. By 1898, as Spain was fighting to quell the uprisings in the Philippines, it became embroiled i...
Yet while “independent” implied a Philippines officially free from foreign rule, many contemporary narratives of Filipino identity, citizenship, and statehood are inevitably influenced by the colonial past and, some say, the continuing undue influence of other countries. The political, social, and economic elites of the country, for example, are of...
This is a timeline of Philippine history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Philippines and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of the Philippines .
An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009); Alfred McCoy, Policing America’s Empire; Patricio Abinales and Donna Amoroso, State and Society in the Philippines, 2d ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017); Raymond Bonner, Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making ...
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. Early History: The Philippine archipelago was settled at least 30,000 years ago, when migrations from the Indonesian archipelago and elsewhere are believed to have occurred. Additional migrations took place over the next millennia. Over time, social and political organization developed and evolved in the widely scattered ...
History/Background of the Philippines. Many groups of people are believed to have reached the Philippines by crossing a land bridge that is no longer in existence. From about 7000 BC to 2000 BC, larger groups of people from present-day China and Vietnam arrived in the Philippines. It is believed that the largest migration to the islands ...
