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The United States would take over the Philippines after the conclusion of the Spanish–American War. During this period Act No. 2710, or the Divorce Law, became law on March 11, 1917. The legislation provided for divorce a vinculo matrimonii or absolute divorce. Divorce permissibility was fault-based, with the following prerequisite. [7]
"Carte d'Amérique" by French cartographer Guillaume Delisle 1774 Spanish America, showing modern boundaries with the U.S.. Although the term "colonial" is contested by some scholars as being historically inaccurate, pejorative, or both, [13] [14] [15] it remains a standard term for the titles of books, articles, and scholarly journals and the like to denote the period 1492 – ca. 1825.
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain in 1821.
In 1898, the United States achieved victory in the Spanish–American War with Spain, ending the Spanish colonial era. Spanish possession and rule of its remaining colonies in the Americas ended in that year with its sovereignty transferred to the United States. The United States took occupation of Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico.
The term "Spanish America" was specifically used during the territories' imperial era between 15th and 19th centuries. To the end of its imperial rule, Spain called its overseas possessions in the Americas and the Philippines "The Indies", an enduring remnant of Columbus's notion that he had reached Asia by sailing west.
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (' Events of the Philippine Islands ') is a book written and published by Antonio de Morga considered one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. [1] It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes by Casa de Geronymo Balli, in ...
Spanish colonial swords in the Museum of the Royal Houses. Following the settlement of Hispaniola, Europeans began searching elsewhere to begin new settlements, since there was little apparent wealth and the numbers of indigenous were declining. Those from the less prosperous Hispaniola were eager to search for new success in a new settlement.
The status of divorce being illegal in the Philippines is largely due to the influence of the Roman Catholic Church. The only other country to ban divorce is the Vatican City. It was legal in the Philippines during the American colonial period and the Japanese occupation during the World War II era. It became illegal with the enactment of the ...