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These people built their homes close to the shore and called their location Buri, which today is the barrio of Buenavista. In 1764, Gubat finally became a town with Don Pedro Manook, the first Teniente del Barrio, also becoming the first gobernadorcillo. The town proper is named after Don Pedro Manook. The word "gúbat" means forest in Tagalog.
Martín de Goiti (c. 1534 – 1575) was a Spanish conquistador and one of the soldiers who accompanied the Spanish voyage of exploration to the East Indies and the Pacific in 1565, in search of rich resources such as gold, spice and settlements.
Mangubat (Spanish: Guerrear); [4] is a Hispanic Filipino surname of Mactan Island origin which means " TO WAGE WAR " [5] [6] [7] in Cebuano language.. It belongs to a noble lineage according to Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent [8] the Cronista Rey de Armas of the Kingdom of Spain, and the last King of Arms appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Justice.
On April 20, 1799, Bulusan's leaders decided to build two lanchas cañoneras to be commanded by actual gobernadorcillo Don Juan Macsimiano and ex-gobernadorcillo Don Juan Tomas. The town of Bulusan built the most baluartes de piedra (stone watchtowers). The town erected watchtowers, one each in Macabare, Tawog and Layog (now a part of Barcelona ...
The Parroquia de San Juan Bautista, also known as Saint John the Baptist Church, is a Roman Catholic church in Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Daet .
Don Pedro Manuel Manooc, known for his military and navigation skills, aided the Spaniards in their invasion of Manila on May 24, 1570, [8] and Bicol (started from Camarines) in July 1573. [9] In 1667, chronicler Fr. Francisco Combés , S.J, described Manooc in Spanish as "Fiero, hombre que facilmente se embravece", which means "the one who ...
During the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines (1565–1898), there were several revolts against the Spanish colonial government by indigenous Moro, Lumad, Indios, Chinese (Sangleys), and Insulares (Filipinos of full or near full Spanish descent), often with the goal of re-establishing the rights and powers that had traditionally belonged to Lumad communities, Maginoo rajah, and Moro datus.
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.