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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.
The oldest universities, colleges, and vocational schools and the first modern public education system in Asia were all created during the Spanish colonial period, and by the time Spain was replaced by the United States as the colonial power, Filipinos were among the most educated subjects in all of Asia. [254]
Legazpi establishes the Spanish Colonial Government in Manila and proclaims it the capital of the colony [18] [25] December 11 Provincehood of Pampanga, first province in Luzon to be inaugurated by the Spaniards. [34] 1572 August 20 Legazpi dies and Guido de Lavezaris succeeds him as Governor-General (1572–1575) [18] [25] [35] 1574 November 7
The following is a listing of the sovereigns of the kingdoms in the Philippine archipelago before their dominions fell to either the Kingdom of the Spains and the Indies (mostly in the 16th or 17th century) or the United States of America (in the 20th century), and of their non-sovereign descendants that kept honorary titles.
The Spanish colonial period in the Philippines — colonial rule of the Las Islas Filipinas (Philippines), a part of the Spanish East Indies territories, which arose from explorations beginning in 1521.
Reception of the Manila galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, Boxer Codex (c. 1590). With the Portuguese guarding access to the Indian Ocean around the Cape, a monopoly supported by papal bulls and the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spanish contact with the Far East waited until the success of the 1519–1522 Magellan–Elcano expedition that found a Southwest Passage around South America ...
Rule during the Spanish era was dominated by the Church, especially friars from Spanish religious orders. [1]: 53 Local priests often held powers in towns, carrying out Spanish orders and collecting taxes. [7]: 1077 In areas where the population had not been consolidated into towns, priests travelled between villages.
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.