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A Criollo Filipina woman in the 1890s. The history of the Spanish Philippines covers the period from 1521 to 1898, beginning with the arrival in 1521 of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailing for Spain, which heralded the period when the Philippines was an overseas province of Spain, and ends with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898.
Many Filipinos speak Philippine English, a dialect derived from American English due to American colonial influence in the country's education system and due to limited Spanish education. [77] Among Asian Americans in 1990, Filipino Americans had the smallest percentage of individuals who had problems with English. [ 78 ]
The Philippine–American War resulted in the deaths of at least 200,000 Filipino civilians. [155] Some estimates for total civilian dead reach up to 1,000,000. [156] [157] After the Philippine–American War, the United States civil governance was established in 1901, with William Howard Taft as the first American Governor-General. [158]
1974, Benjamin Menor appointed first Filipino American in a state's highest judiciary office as Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. [115] Thelma Buchholdt is the first Filipino American, and first Asian American, woman elected to a state legislature in the United States, in the Alaska House of Representatives. [116] [117]
The "Ilustrados", pictured here in 1890, formed the first significant community of Hispanic Filipinos in Spain.The first Filipino settlements in Spain goes back to the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines between the 16th and 19th century, although most migration from the Philippines to Spain during this period was to the territories of New Spain, where some 3,600 Asians, mostly ...
Filipino creators on TikTok are addressing the inclination of many Filipinos on social media and beyond to declare that they have “Spanish ancestry,” seemingly prioritizing possible European ...
Other large ethnic groups include Filipinos of Japanese, Indian, Chinese, Spanish, and American descent. There are more than 175 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines, each with their own, identity, literature, tradition, music, dances, foods, beliefs, and history, but which form part of the tapestry of Filipino culture. The latest censuses ...
The Philippine islands were incorporated into the Spanish Empire during the mid-16th century. [7] Accordingly, Spanish nationality law applied to the colony. [8] No definitive nationality legislation for Philippine residents existed for almost the entire period of Spanish rule until the Civil Code of Spain became applicable in the Philippines on December 8, 1889.