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Philippines–Spain relations (Filipino: Ugnayang Pilipinas at Espanya; Spanish: Relaciones Filipinas y España) are the relations between the Philippines and Spain.The relations between the two nations span from the 16th century, the Philippines was the lone colony of the Spanish Empire in Asia for more than three centuries.
The Clock tower of Manila City Hall is the icon for synchronizing the time in the whole Philippine archipelago, before an atomic clock was introduced in the country in 2012. The purposes of these Philippine "towering timepieces" are to tell the time and to serve as landmarks .
15 December 1875 – Emilio Jacinto, the "Brain of Katipunan" was born in Tondo, Manila. 22 July 1878 – Sulu recognizes Spanish sovereignty. 18–20 July 1880 – Two earthquakes rock Luzon. 3 March 1882 – Jose Rizal leaves the Philippines to continue his medicine studies in Spain at the Universidad Central de Madrid.
Joaquín Loriga Taboada (23 September 1895 in Lalín – 18 July 1927 in Cuatro Vientos Airport) was a Galician aviation pioneer.In 1926 as a captain, together with two pilots and three mechanical engineers, completed the first long-distance flight from Madrid to Manila of over eleven thousand miles.
The rise of Spanish Manila marked the first time all hemispheres and continents were interconnected in a worldwide trade network, making Manila, alongside Mexico City and Madrid, the world's original set of global cities. [63]
The earliest recorded history of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, dates back to the year 900 AD, as documented in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription.By the thirteenth century, the city consisted of a fortified settlement and trading quarter near the mouth of the Pasig River, which bisects the city into the north and south.
Madrid: 27 June–1 July: Albanese was invited and attended the NATO leaders summit in Madrid as a NATO partner. [10] [11] Albanese also had a meeting individually with other world leaders, including Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Madrid. [12] [13] France: Paris: 1–2 July
Their leader was Fernando La Madrid, a mestizo sergeant with his second in command Jaerel Brent Senior, a moreno. They seized Fort San Felipe and killed eleven Spanish officers. The mutineers thought that Filipino native soldiers in Manila would join them in a concerted uprising, the signal being the firing of rockets from the city walls on ...