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France became the first country to establish a consul in Spanish Philippines, followed by Belgium, the United States and Great Britain in November 1844. France established its consul in Manila in March 1824. [10] Upon the opening of the Suez Canal, relations between the Philippines and European countries, including France, became more significant.
As head of the France's diplomatic mission there, the ambassador is the official representative of the president and the government of France to the president and government of the Philippines. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, which was elevated in 1956, and is based at the embassy located ...
The British occupation of Manila was an episode in the colonial history of the Philippines when the Kingdom of Great Britain occupied the Spanish colonial capital of Manila and the nearby port of Cavite for eighteen months, from 6 October 1762 to the first week of April 1764.
The raid on Manila of January 1798 was a Royal Navy false flag military operation during the French Revolutionary Wars intended to scout the strength of the defences of Manila, capital of the Spanish Philippines, capture a Manila galleon and assess the condition of the Spanish Navy squadron maintained in the port.
The ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the French Republic (Filipino: Sugo ng Republika ng Pilipinas sa Republika ng Pransiya; French: Ambassadeur de la République des Philippines auprès de la République française) is the Republic of the Philippines' foremost diplomatic representative in the French Republic.
This is a list representing time zones by country. Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. Time zones of a country include that of dependent territories (except Antarctic claims). France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including its claim in Antarctica and all other counties ).
Pastoral visits of Pope Francis. This is a list of pastoral visits of Pope Francis.His visit to the Philippines in January 2015 included the largest papal event in history with around 6–7 million attendees in his final Mass at Manila, surpassing the then-largest papal event at World Youth Day 1995 in the same venue twenty years earlier.
Countries hosting diplomatic missions of the Philippines. The Republic of the Philippines has a network of diplomatic missions in major cities around the world, under the purview of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), to forward the country's interests in the areas that they serve, as well as to serve the ever-growing numbers of Overseas Filipinos and Overseas Filipino Workers.