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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.
Year Date Event Source c.200 AD The Maitum Jars are anthropomorphic jars that were depicting children (head is the lead of the jar with ears and the body was the jar itself with hands and feet as the handle) with perforations in red and black colors, had been used as a secondary burial jars in Ayub Cave, Pinol, Maitum Sarangani province, each of the jars had a "facial expression".
In the late 1700s to early 1800s, Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga, an Agustinian Friar, in his Two Volume Book: "Estadismo de las islas Filipinas" [285] [286] compiled a census of the Spanish-Philippines based on the tribute counts (Which represented an average family of seven to ten children [287] and two parents, per tribute) [273] and came ...
Political turmoil in Spain led to 24 governors being appointed to the Philippines from 1800 to 1860, [1]: 85 often lacking any experience with the country. [ 10 ] : 144 Significant political reforms began in the 1860s, with a couple of decades seeing the creation of a cabinet under the Governor-General and the division of executive and judicial ...
February 17: Filipino priests José Burgos, Mariano Gomez and Jacinto Zamora, collectively known as Gomburza, are executed in Bagumbayan Fields, Manila, Philippines by the authorities of New Spain, on charges of subversion arising from the 1872 Cavite mutiny. Yellowstone National Park, the first national park, is created.
The Philippines also became the distribution center of silver mined in the Americas, which was in high demand in Asia, during the period. [20] In exchange for this silver, the Philippines very much functioned like a trade entrepot between the nations of South, East and Southeast Asia and the territories in Spanish North and South Americas ...
Philippines as one whole national entity was non-existent. Islands comparable to Greece composed of numerous sovereign and independent chiefdoms, several minor kingdoms and thalassocracies such as the Kedatuan of Madja-as , the rajahnates of Cebu and Butuan , Sultanates of Maguindanao , Lanao and Sulu who were all already engaged in trading ...
The royal decree of February 2, 1800, prohibited foreigners from living in the Philippines. [34] as did the royal decrees of 1807 and 1816. [34] In 1823, Governor-General Mariano Ricafort promulgated an edict prohibiting foreign merchants from engaging in retail trade and visiting the provinces for the purpose of trading.