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The National Library of the Philippines traces its beginnings to the establishment of the Museo-Biblioteca de Filipinas (Museum-Library of the Philippines), established by Royal Order No. 689 [ 1 ] of the Spanish government on August 12, 1887. [ 2 ][ 3 ] It opened on October 24, 1891, at the Intendencia in Intramuros, then home of the Manila ...
The recorded history of the Philippines between 900 and 1565 begins with the creation of the Laguna Copperplate Inscription in 900 and ends with the beginning of Spanish colonization in 1565. The inscription records its date of creation in 822 Saka (900 CE). The discovery of this document marks the end of the prehistory of the Philippines at ...
e. 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.
Due to his efforts, the Filipiniana collection of the Philippine National Library became one of the most complete collection in Philippine studies. He was a member of the executive board of the Asociacion Historico-Geografica de Filipinas as well as the prestigious Academia de la Lengua Filipina. In 1915, he was inducted as an honorary ...
Ambeth Ocampo, pictured in 2024, has written many books and publications in his lifetime. The bibliography of Philippine historian Ambeth Ocampo is a list of approximately more than one hundred works which the historian has written, co-written, edited, and includes works for which he has written a foreword, introduction or afterword.
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 ...
Philippine Historical Association. The Philippine Historical Association (Kapisanang Pangkasaysayan ng Pilipinas in Tagalog) [1] is a professional association of historians in the Philippines and is considered one of the oldest organizations of historians in the country. [2] It was founded on September 18, 1955 by a group of prominent ...
e. The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines on ...