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The Price Mansion was built in 1910 by Walter Scott Price, an American from Philadelphia. He was a United States Army engineer who was assigned in the Philippines for the Spanish–American War . He married Cavite native Simeona Custodio Kalingag, and after the war they migrated to Leyte .
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.
January 1 – New Year's Day; February 22 – Legal Holiday; April 9 – Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) April 11 – Maundy Thursday; April 12 – Good Friday; May 1 – Labor Day; June 12 – Independence Day; July 4 – Philippine Republic Day; August 13 – Legal Holiday; August 25 – National Heroes Day; September 21 – Thanksgiving ...
February 3 – San Fernando becomes a city in the province of Pampanga through ratification of Republic Act 8990 which was approved on January 26. February 22 – Zamboanga Sibugay becomes a province in the region of Zamboanga Peninsula through ratification of Republic Act 8973 which was approved on November 7, 2000.
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This article covers the history of the current Philippine republican state following the 1986 People Power Revolution, known as the Fifth Philippine Republic.. The return of democracy and government reforms beginning in 1986 were hampered by national debt, government corruption, coup attempts, disasters, a persistent communist insurgency, [1] and a military conflict with Moro separatists. [2]
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