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The history of the Philippines dates from the earliest hominin activity in the archipelago at least by 709,000 years ago. [1] Homo luzonensis, a species of archaic humans, was present on the island of Luzon [2] [3] at least by 134,000 years ago. [4] The earliest known anatomically modern human was from Tabon Caves in Palawan dating about 47,000 ...
For this competition, the category of Philippine history and culture was expanded to include ASEAN history and culture. In 1993, in consonance with the Philippines 2000 program of President Fidel V. Ramos , the competition now included high school and college students, and the name was changed to the National Super Quiz Bee.
[4] [5] c. 4000: Earliest evidence of rice growing, domesticating chickens and pigs. c. 3000: Presumed date of the Angono Petroglyphs. [6] c. 2000: The Igorots built forts made of stone walls that averaged several meters in width and about 2 to 3 times the width in height around [7] [8]
Juan Cailles y Kauppama (November 10, 1871 – June 28, 1951) was a Filipino general and politician. A member of the revolutionary movement Katipunan, [1] he was a commanding officer of the Philippine Revolutionary Army who served during the Philippine Revolution and Philippine–American War.
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.
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The historiography of early Philippine settlements is the academic discipline concerned with the studies, sources, critical methods and interpretations used by scholars to understand the history of settlements in early Philippine history. By modern definitions, this does not involve a story of "events in the past directly," but rather "the ...
January 1/2, 1899 – Acting Spanish Governor-General Diego de los Ríos returns to Manila from Zamboanga. [35] January 4 – U.S. General Elwell Otis issues proclamation announcing the United States as having obtained possession and control of all of the Philippines from the Spanish. [36]