History of the Philippines-timeline
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
10th-15th centuries
900 AD - End of prehistory. Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the first Philippine document, is written in the Manila area in Kawi script.
c.900 AD - Rise of Indianized Kingdom of Tondo around Manila Bay.
900s AD - People from Southern Annam called Orang Dampuan establish trade zones in Sulu
1001 - Song Shih document records tributary delegation from the Kingdom of Butuan on 17 March.
1175 - Kingdom of Namayan reaches its peak.
1240 - Tuan Mash`ika, an Arab, travels and introduces Islam to Sulu.
1300s - Birth of the Baybayin, Hanunoo, Tagbanwa, and Buhid scripts from Brahmi.
1380 - Karim Al-Makhdum arrives in Jolo and builds a Mosque.
1433 - Kalantiaw, ruler of Aklan, said to have published the oldest surviving native legal code on the islands. The code was later shown by historian William Henry Scott to be a forgery dating to no earlier than 1914.[1]
1457 AD - Sultanate of Sulu founded by Sharif Al-Hashim.[2]
[edit] 16th century
1500 - Rise of Kingdom of Maynila under the Bolkiah dynasty
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
1567 - Dagami Revolt (1567)
1570 - Kingdom of Maynila is conquered. Manila made a Spanish city
1574 - Manila Revolt (1574)
1585 - Pampangos Revolt (1585)
1587 - Conspiracy of the Maharlikas (1587-1588)
1589 - Revolts Against the Tribute (1589)
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
1596 - Magalat Revolt (1596)
17th century
c.1600 - Pedro Bucaneg inscribes the oral epic Biag ni Lam-ang
1601 - Igorot Revolt (1601)
1602 - Chinese revolt of 1602
1611 - University of Santo Tomas established as the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del SantÃsimo Rosario (later renamed the Colegio de Santo Tomas).
1621 - The Colegio de Manila is made the Universidad de San Ignacio by Pope Gregory XV.
1621 - Tamblot Revolt (1621-1622)
1621 - Bankaw Revolt (1621-1622)
1623 - The Universidad de San Ignacio is made a royal university by Philip IV of Spain.
1625 - Isneg Revolt (1625-1627)
1639 - Cagayan Revolt (1639)
1643 - Ladia Revolt (1643)
1645 - The Colegio de Santo Tomas becomes the University of Santo Tomas after a bull by Pope Innocent X.
1645 - Zambales Revolt (1645)
1645 - Pampanga Revolt (1645)
1647 - Dutch besieged the Spanish in the Battle of Puerto de Cavite.
1649 - Sumuroy Revolt (1649-50)
1649 - Pintados Revolt (1649-50)
1660 - Zambal Revolt (1660)
1660 - Maniago Revolt (1660)
1660 - Malong Revolt (1660-1661)
1661 - Ilocano Revolt (1661)
1662 - Chinese revolt of 1662
1663 - Tapar Revolt (1663)
1681 - Sambal Revolt (1681-1683)
1686 - Tingco plot (1686)
18th century
1718 - Rivera Revolt (1718)
1719 - Caragay Revolt (1719)
1744 - Dagohoy Rebellion (1744-1829)
1745 - Agrarian Revolt (1745-1746)
1762 - Silang Revolt (1762-63)
1762 - Palaris Revolt (1762-1765)
1762 - Camarines Revolt (1762-1764)
1762 - Cebu Revolt (1762-1764)
1762 - Britain seizes Manila as part of the Seven Years War
1763 - Dabo and Marayac Revolt (1763)
1763 - Isabela Revolt (1763)
1763 - Treaty of Paris implicitly returns Manila to Spain
1763 - Deaths of Gabriela Silang, the only Filipina to have led a revolt, and her husband Diego
1764 - Handover of British rule to Spanish military governor and withdrawal of all British forces in April
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.
1785 - Lagutao Revolt (1785)
1787 - Magtanong and Malibiran Revolt (1787)
1788 - Ilocos Norte Revolt (1788)
1788 - Birth of the writer Francisco Balagtas
19th century
1805 - Nueva Vizcaya Revolt (1805)
1807 - Ambaristo Revolt (1807)
1821 - The Philippines becomes a 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 mutiny in Cavite.
1872 - 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 - Jose Rizal establishes La Liga Filipina;Jose Rizal was exiled in Dapitan.
1892 - Andres Bonifacio establishes the Katipunan.
1896 - Tejeros Convention establishes the Tagalog Republic.
1896 - José Rizal is executed.
1897 - Andres Bonifacio is executed.
1897 - Republic of Biak-na-Bato is established.
1897 - Pact of Biak-na-Bato ends the Republic of Biak-na-Bato.
1898 - Malolos Constitution establishes First Philippine Republic.
1898 - Emilio Aguinaldo declares independence
1898 - Treaty of Paris transfers control of the Philippines and other territories from Spain to the United States.
1898 - Philippine-American War Conflict erupts between Filipino Nationalists and American Forces.
20th century
1901 - Silliman Institute, later known as Silliman University, is established as the first American university in the Philippines.
1902 - Macario Sacay establishes a second Tagalog Republic
1902 - Americans proclaim the end of the Philippine-American War, however fighting continues.
1904 - University of San Agustin in Iloilo is established.
1907 - Macario Sacay is executed by hanging, ending his second Taglog Republic.
1907 - The First Philippine Assembly is convened.
1908 - The University of the Philippines is 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 an all-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 signs the United Nations charter.
1946 - Manuel Roxas elected president
1946 - United States grants 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 a plane crash; Carlos P. Garcia becomes president
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 term, the first to ever do so
1970 - First Quarter Storm begins 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 - Philippine general election and referendum, 1981 (Ferdinand Marcos re-elected to a third term)
1981 - Finance Minister Cesar Virata is elected Prime Minister by the Batasang Pambansa
1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr. assassinated
1984 - Philippine parliamentary election, 1984
1986 - Philippine presidential election, 1986
1986 - EDSA Revolution ousts President Marcos; Corazon Aquino becomes president
1987 - Philippine legislative election, 1987
1991 - Senate rejects renewal of U.S military bases in the Philippines
1992 - Philippine general election, 1992 (Fidel V. Ramos is elected)
1995 - Philippine general election, 1995
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; vice-president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo becomes president
2001 - EDSA III
2001 - Philippine general election, 2001
2003 - Oakwood mutiny
2004 - Philippine general election, 2004 (Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo elected to a six-year term)
2005 - Hello Garci scandal (Legitimacy of declared election winners questioned)
2006 - A state of emergency was declared in February in response to coup rumours.
2007 - Philippine general election, 2007
2007 - Manila Peninsula mutiny
2009 - Three International Committee of the Red Cross volunteers were kidnapped by the rebel group Abu Sayyaf.
