TIMELINE
by Jesus T. Peralta
June 2005 ©
Phili ppine Events
Dates
4.4 m.y
4.2-1.8 m.yrs.
2 m.yrs.
Espinosa Ranch Site, Cagayan Province.
Evidence for the presence of Man in the form of
two flake stone tools in situ in the mid-Pleistocene
Awidon Mesa Formation - the oldest man-made
object associated with fossils of elephas. Stegodon,
Elephas, deer, pig, tortoise also in the general area.
Middle of the Ice Age. Land bridges to mainland Asia.
Paleolithic Culture.
Cabatuan, Iloilo. Flake tools, elephas fossils;
fossils also in Agusan Valley; Rizal,
Quezon City, and Pangasinan.
World Events
Ardipitheus- early fossil hominid, Myanmar
Different Australopithecines in Africa
Homo habilis in Africa
1.5 m.yrs.
to 27000 yrs.
Homo erectus, Java Man,in Indonesia
.9+-.17 m.yrs.
Homo erectus, Peking Man, in China.
Stone tools; use of fire.
co-eval
100000 BC
75000-35000 BC
Homo sapiens sapiens
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis in Europe
Tibia in Tabon Cave
47,000 BC
Earliest H.sapiens sapiens in the Philippines and
Southeast Asia
Appearance of the Mamanua in the country, a
population now limited about Lake Mainit in Agusan
del Norte, Mindanao, identified as a Proto-Malay
population.
60,000 BC
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis burial
-50,000 of the dead with flowers.
Crossing of the Bering Straits from Asia to the American
continent
Tabon Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Earliest
occupation. Flake stone tool assemblage.
50000-45000 BC
Negrito Populations with eastern and western
branches on both sides of the Philippines
Beginning of sea level rise at the end of Ice Age as
earth temperatures rise. Polar Ice begins to melt.
30000-20000 BC
Tabon Cave, Lipuun Point, Quezon, Palawan - Tabon
Woman - earliest fossil evidence of H.sapiens sapiens
in the Philippines.
Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) fossil in Tabon Cave
Cro-Magnon man
Altamira Rock paintings
16,700 BC
Laurente Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan, N. Luzon
inhabited with flake stone tools of chert,andesite,
opalines; burnt bones.
16000-8000 BC
Guri Cave. Lipuun Point, Palawan. Flake stone
tools, marine shells.
Sea about the present level. Land bridges, loast coastal
areas inundated.
13000 BC
12220-9780 BC
Pottery in Padah-Lin Cave in Myanmar.
10000 BC
Food plants grown in the fertile crescent; beans, peas,
water chestnuts grown in Thailand.
9750 BC
Cultivation in Thailand, peas, beans, etc.
Phili ppine Events
Laurente Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan.
Flake stone tools.
Dates
9000 BC
First settlement of islands in the Meditarranean.
Stones used to remove husks from grain in Egypt.
8500 BC
Plant domestication in the Andes.
Sheep domesticated in the fertile crescent.
8070
8000 BC
Musang Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan. Bone, chert flakes
tools, jasper, jade, freshwater shells
Bolobok Cave, Sanga- Sanga, Tawi-Tawi,
Tridacna shell tools, stone tools
Early Neolithic Age Culture.
Austronesian population movements into the
Philippines and the Pacific
World Events
Jericho, already with fortification
7880-7560 BC
7000 BC
Domestication of cattle, pigs lin Middle East; Pottery,
spinning, weaving, copper use in the Near East; Plaster
human statues in Jordan; squash, beans, pepper
in Mexico; manioc, root crops in Andes; pastoral farming
in Libya and Algeria.
6500 BC
Cultivation spreads in Southeast Europe.
6185 BC
6000-2000 BC
6000 BC
Laurente Cave, Cagayan. Pottery, flake stone tools
5880 BC
Bolobok Cave,Sanga-Sanga, Tawi-Tawi.
Pottery, shell and stone tools
5745 BC
Arku Cave, Penablanca,Cagayan. Pottery, adzes, shell
beads, stone flakes, bones.
5730 BC
Bolobok Cave, Sanga-Sanga, Tawi-Tawi
Pottery, midden, flake stone and shell tools bones, red
hematite slip in pottery
5680-5520 BC
Laurente Cave. Flake tools, bones, plain pottery shards
5580 BC
Earliest Potteryin Europe.
Irrigation in Tigris and Euphrates; rock painting in
Central Sahara; First farming in India; domestication of
plants and animals in China; Earliest pottery in China;
beans and peanuts in Peru.
5200 BC
Farming spreads in Europe
5000 BC
Wet rice farming in China; Corn grown in Tehuacan,
Mexico; Cattle herding in Egypt; Pottery and linen in
Egypt; first ships appear in the Mediteranean; plow first
used in Southeast Europe; chamber tombs in France.
Phili ppine Events
Dates
Guri Cave, Chamber A, Lipuun Point, Palawan.
Flake tools, blade-like stone tools, marine
marine shells.
5000-2000 BC
Duyung Cave, Palawan, ground shell tools
trapezoidal stone adzes, side and center
perforated shell disks, shell lime container
Late Neolithic Age culture.
4850-4400 BC
Bagumbayan, Masbate. Pottery
4700-4140 BC
Pilanduk Cave, Iwaig, Palawan. Edge-ground tools,
flake tools, jar burial.
4500-3500 BC
Musang Cave, Penablanca. Pottery, flake tools,
human bones, earthenware beads
4340-2530 BC
Dimolit, Isabela. House floor, jadeite beads pottery
Earliest evidence for house.
4120-3755 BC
Musang Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan.
Shell, flake tools, pottery
3810-3650 BC
Duyung Cave, Palawan.
Edge-ground stone and Tridacna shell tools.
3675-3015 BC
Rabel Cave, Panablanca, Cagayan.Flake tools, pottery.
3545-2190 BC
3500 BC
3500-3200 BC
3400 BC
Dimolit, Isabela. House floor, jadeit beads, pottery,
mortars, whetstone, adzes.
Bolobok Cave, Sanga-Sanga, Tawi-Tawi bronze celt, red
glass bead, pottery
Early Metal Age Culture.
Talikod Island, Samal, Davao. Occupation debris.
Amazon pottery, earliest in the Americas
3890 BC
Duyung Cave, Iwahig, Palawan. probable jar burial
Pilanduk Cave, Iwaig, Palawan.
Edge-ground tools, flakes, jar burial
Domistication of Bovines in Thailand
4095 BC
4000 BC
Callao Cave, Penablanca,Cagayan. Flake tools.
World Events
Towns in Egypt, Memphis, Central Egypt
Wheeled vehicles in Central Europe Peru grows cotton
and corn
Wheel and potters wheel in Sumer, Indus Valley.
3370 BC
3300 BC
Cuneiform writing in Sumer
3200 BC
Standing Stones in Britain and France
3190 BC
3100 BC
Hieroglyphic writing in Egypt
3000 BC
Olives, vines, cereals grown in the Aegean area; rye and
oats grown in Europe. Pottery in Ecuador, Columbia.
2930 BC
Phili ppine Events
Dates
Guri Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Flake tools.
2880 BC
Dimolit, Isabela. Flakes, jasper blades with silica gloss,
pottery Evidence for reaping.
2865 BC
2700 BC
Duyung Cave, Iwaig, Palawan.
Flexed burial, tridacna adzes, shell lime container,
shell disk ornaments, habitation.
2655-2120 BC
Dimolit, Isabela. House floor.
House floor, flake tools, small jasper blades, silica gloss
2650-2710 BC
Talikod, Samal Is., Davao.
Flake shell and stone tools, midden.
2650-2315 BC
2600-2550 BC
2500-2100 BC
2500 BC
Lallo, Cagayan. Fresh water shell midden, pottery,
bones, trapezoidal stone adzes
2395-1735 BC
Bagumbayan, Masbate. Buff colored pottery
2310-1735 BC
Edjek, Negros. Pottery, fired clay lumps
2305-1410 BC
2300 BC
Binangonan, Rizal. Angono Petroglyphs
Great Pyramid at Giza.
Flutes, clarinets in Egypt, Bronze Age in Europe, First
Minoan palaces in Crete, Stone Henge reaches final
form in England.
Epic of Gilgamesh. Weaving in Mexico
Pottery in Mexico.
2125-1745 BC
c.2000 BC
Dimolit, Isabela. Flake tools, blades with silica gloss
1860 BC
Rabel Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan. Flake tools, pottery.
1855 BC
Lemery. Batangas. Pottery
1850 BC
Arku Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan. Footed
pottery,bones, shell beads, baked clay bead.
Step pyramid, Sphinx in Egypt,
2610-2130 BC
2550 BC
Magapit Bridge, Cagayan. Shell, polished stone
tools, plain red-slipped pottery
Corn grown in Argentina.
2680 BC
Pintu Cave, Isabela.
Core tools, flake tools, small blade-like tools.
Manga Site, Andarayan, Cagayan. Rice husk embedded
in pottery, polished adzes, spindle whorl.
Earliest evidence for rice. Evidence for weaving.
World Events
Chopsticks in use in China
1814 BC
First Assyrian Empire
1766 BC
Shang Dynasty in Northern China
1660-890 BC
1580-1079
Shang Dynasty in China. Bronze pots
Phili ppine Events
Dates
Rabel Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan. Flake tool, pottery.
1570 BC
Banaue, Ifugao. Dates occupation in a house platform
presumably. Terracing probably present/root cropping
1545-825 BC
Ngipe’t Duldog Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan.
Jar burial, stepped adze, stone and shell beads.
1500-1000 BC
1470 BC
Lanna, Cagayan. Stone adzes, spindle whorls.
1380 BC
Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan.
Jar burial, elaborate pottery, jade beads.
1330 BC
Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan.
Jar burial, elaborate pottery, jade beads.
1255-605 BC
1005-1250 BC
Batungan Cave, Masbate. Kalanay-type pottery.
Bato Caves, Sorsogon. Jar burials with shells,
adzes, shell beads and bracelets.
World Events
Santorini destroyed in the Meditarranean
David unites the Jews. Capital at Jerusalem
1445 BC
Hebrew Exodus
1220 BC
Destruction of Troy by the Myceneans
1165 BC
1000-225 BC
1000 BC
972-953 BC
900 BC
900-801 BC
Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Pt.,Palawan. Late Neolithic
burial, elaborate pottery, jade beads. “Manunggul Jar”.
895-775 BC
Arku Cave, Cagayan. Red-slipped pottery, ochre
covered bones, bone points.
805-390 BC
801-701 BC
The Rig Veda of India is written down.
Astronomical laboratory, maps dictionaries in China
Copper smelting in the Andes
Solomon becomes King of Israel, begins to build
temple.
Etruscans appear in Italy
Carthage is founded by the Phoenicians
Iliad and Odyssey are composed.
800 BC
“Age of Prophesy” among the Hebrew
770 BC
Eastern Chou Dynasty in China
Pintu Cave, Isabela. Pottery, glass beads, stone tools.
765 BC
Batungan Cave 2, Masbate.
Stone adzes Kalanay- type pottery.
756 BC
750 BC
Odyssey and Iliad, poetry in Greek
Phili ppine Events
Dates
700 BC
Bato Caves, Sorosogon. Pottery, quadrangular
adzes, jar burial, shell beads and bracelets
Taoism in China
587 BC
Nebuchadnessar destroys Jerusalem.
Israel banished to Babylon
538 BC
End of Israel captivity in Babylon under Cyrus who
founds first Persian Empire
528 BC
Birth of Buddhism
509 BC
Foundation of the Roman Empire
c.500 BC-500 AD
500-300 BC
Pintu Cave, Isabela. Pottery, Glass beads, stone tools
435-165 BC
Rito-Fabian Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan.
jar burial, iron, copper, bronze, glass and jade ear
pendants, shell, jade beads and bracelets.
Binisitahan, Sorsogon. Jar burial
V.Pagayona Sr. Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan.
Jar burials with trunconical covers, iron, copper,
bronze, glass beads.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
600 BC
Duyung Cave, Iwaig, Palawan. Jar burial, stone
adzes, bronze and iron tools, jade ornaments.
Uyaw Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Jar burial,
bronze adz and spear, stone adz, iron (?), jade
ornaments, glass beads and bracelets.
Guri Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Jar burial, bronze,
glass and gold beads, jade ear pendants.
Pyramic tombs of Nubian kings.
Sheep in East Africa.
Iron tools and weapons in North Africa
690-635 BC
601-501 BC
Cortez Site, Cagayan. Burial site. Metal site.
World Events
The Persian Wars
China produces cast iron.
Bronze Dongson drums.
First Suez Canal. Camels replace horses in the Sahara.
Terra-Cotta heads of the Nok culture in Nigeria.
430 BC
Attila, the Hun ravages Europe
425 BC
Hindu Ramayana Epic
399 BC
Trial and death of Socrates
332 BC
Alexander the Great starts Greek rule from the East to
India
307 BC
Great Library in Alexandria
300-100 BC
Taoism based on “Tao-te Ching”, attributed to Lao Tse.
Yayoi Culture in Japan.
282 BC
The Colossus of Rhodes
280 BC
Pharos, lighthouse in Alexandria
210 BC
7000 Terra-cotta warriors guard
Emperor Shih’s tomb in China
204 BC
Great Wall of China completed
200-100 BC
c.200 BC
200 BC-200 AD
Phili ppine Events
Dates
197 BC
Manunggul Cave, Chamber B, Lipuun Point, Palawan.
Jar burial, iron, glass and stone, glass bracelets.
Earliest date for iron.
Developed Metal Age culture.
Maitum Cave, Sarangani. Anthropomorphic burial jars,
glass beads, bracelets. Kalanay-type pottery.
Rosetta Stone inscribed in Egypt
190 BC
112 BC
Tadyaw Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Jar burial,
trunconical covers, iron, bronze, glass, gold,
carnelian, glass and jade bracelets.
World Events
Silk Road opens between China and the West
100 BC-300 AD
79 BC
Mt. Vesuvius, destruction of Pompeii
49 BC
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
47 BC
Great Library of Alexandria destroyed
13 BC
Hebrews occupy Canaan
8-5 BC
Birth of Christ
5 BC-225 AD
ANNO
DOMINI
11 AD
Gun powder is invented in China
26-36 AD
Passion of Christ (14th-15th of Nisan)
43 AD
London is established by the Romans
64 AD
Great Fire in Rome
70 AD
Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans
c.100 AD
Porcelain first made in China
105 AD
Ts’ai Lun makes paper in China
150 AD
Earliest Sanskrit inscription.
Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon at Teotihuacan,
Valley of Mexico.
200 AD
Ramayana and Bhagavad Gita in India
202-220 AD
Han Dynasty reunites China
271 AD
Magnetic compass in China
279 AD
Talmud is issued by Jewish scholars
285 AD
Confucianism introduced in Japan
300 AD
Mass production of iron in Europe
313 AD
Constantine’s vision of the cross.
Christianity becomes official religion of the Roman
Empire
Phili ppine Events
Libertad, Butuan City.
Large edge-pegged plank boats - Earliest dated boat.
Sasak Shelter, Kalatagbak, Palawan.
Pottery,iron, glass beads.
Dates
320 AD
330 AD
Byzantine Empire in Constantinopole
360 AD
Books start to replace scrolls in Europe
400-600 AD
Writing begins in Japan with Chinese ideographs
479-502 AD
Chi Dynasty in China
500 AD
Kulaman Plateau,Cotabato, Mindanao. Stone urn
burial, pottery jar burial.
Bunghalian, Ifugao. Terrace dating
Lungun Cave, Kalatagbak, Palawan.
Wood coffin burials, iron, pottery.
World Events
Decimal system devised in India
500-670 AD
535 AD
Decimal system devised in India
570 AD
Birth of Mohammad (-632)
593 AD
Printing press is invented in China using wooden
blocks
594 AD
Buddhism becomes official religion of Japan
610 AD
618-960 AD
Tang Dynasty with Chang-an as capital
622 AD
Hegira- Flight of Mohammad to Medina
625 AD
Mecca is conquered and becomes center of Islam
641 AD
Persian Empire falls to the Muslims
700-900 AD
Golden Age of Chinese poetry
750 AD
Maori arrives in New Zealand
760 AD
Arabs develop numerals system
763 AD
Baghdad becomes center of Muslim culture
800 AD
Charlemagne becomes first Holy Roman emperor
802 AD
Angkor Kingdon in Cambodia
939 AD
Vietnam becomes independent of China
960-1270 AD
Sinoloan Copper plate: earliest evidence of writing
in the Philippines - a legal quit-claim.
c.1000 AD
Laurel, Batangas.
Polychrome jar with manganese glaze from Fayum,
Egypt Earliest evidence of high-fired ceramics.
Butuan City, Mindanao.
Persian glass, shell midden, Chinese Yueh-type wares,
large edge-pegged plank boat.
c.1000 AD
Song Dynasty in China
Phili ppine Events
Bubulungun Cave I-B, Lipuun Point, Palawan.
Secondary jar burial, iron, Indo-Roman beads,
Song dynasty trade ceramics.
Dates
1000-1100 AD
500-1010 AD
Magmisi Shelf, Iwaig, Palawan. Secondary burial in jars,
Song Dynasty trade ceramics.
Limao-Limao Cave, Ransang, Palawan. cave burial
Buad Island, Samar. Small blade and flake, silica gloss
Sta. Ana, Manila. Early Blue and White Chinese
trade ceramics. Islamic burials ?
Nabyun, Ifugao. Terrace dating.
Ugpay Cave, Ransang, Palawan. Habitation
1040 AD
1115 AD
1126 AD
Song Dynasty rules only in South China
1150 AD
Hindu Angkor Vat in Cambodia
1156 AD
Founding of Moscow
1166 AD
Saladin builds Cairo in Egypt
1175 AD
1195-1380 AD
1200 AD
Aztecs occupy Mexico
1206 AD
Genghis Khan begins Asian conquest
1220 AD
First Thai kingdom appears
1230 AD
Mongols destroy Ch’in Empire
1250 AD
1251 AD
1260-1380 AD
Khublai Khan governs China
Mongol Genghis Khan. Yuan Dynasty in China.
1275 AD
Marco Polo reaches China
1300 AD
Gunpowder produced in Europe
Kuruswanan Ledge, Palawan.
Primary coffin burial. Yuan Dynasty ceramics.
c.1300-1400 AD
Balingasay, Pangasinan.
Pottery, monochome Chinese tradeware.
c.1300-1500 AD
Kuruswanan Ledge, Kuruswanan, Palawan.
Primary burial in log coffin, Yuan Dynasty ceramics.
Magnetic compass invented in China.
First movable type printing in China
c.1100
1234 AD
Batuan City. Large edge-pegged boat.
Chess is developed in India
1100-1200 AD
1050 AD
Tausug moves from NE Mindanao to SW to
the Sulu archipelago
World Events
1300-1400 AD
1320 AD
cannon first used in Europe at Metz.
1350 AD
Height of Madjapahit Empire in Java Aztec capital,
Tinochtitlan, founded.
Phili ppine Events
Dates
1368-1644 AD
Introduction of Islam into the Philippines
Calatagan, Batangas.
Pottery, blue and white Chinese, Thai ceramics.
Cotta Wayngan, Jolo.
Tausug Fort. With no European ceramics.
Bocos, Banaue rapid rice terraces expansion
(302 yrs. From valley to mountain top)
Ferdinand Magellan lands in Philippines.
Lapu-Lapu resists Spanish incursion.
Magellan dies in Mactan Is. Battle.
Ming Dynasty in China established
c.1400 AD
c.1400-1500 AD
Chinese encyclopedia, Yung Lo Ta Tien
1405 AD
Chen Ho’s Voyages from China to Africa
1420 AD
Beijing, the Forbidden City, established
1440-1660 AD
1450 AD
Bungiao Cave, Zamboanga.
Thai, Vietnamese Chinese tradeware.
World Events
Gutenberg introduces the printing press
1460-1915 AD
1486-1788
1492 AD
Columbus lands at San Salvador
1493 AD
Papal Bull placing the “East Indies” under Spain.
1498 AD
Vasco de Gama reaches India via the Cape of Good
Hope
1517 AD
Martin Luther starts church reformation
1521 AD
Spanish Hernan Cortes razes Aztec city, Tinochtitlan
(today Mexico City)
1532 AD
Francisco Pizarro arrives in Peru
1534 AD
Henry VIII establishes Church of England
1543 AD
Copernicus suggests earth rotates around the sun
1544 AD
Council of Trent to reform Catholic Church
1545 AD
Gregorian calendar is introduced
Legaspi arrives in Cebu.
First Philippine Spanish Treaty of Peace is drawn where
Filipinos recognized Spanish sovereignty and gets
protection in return. Christianity is introduced.
1565 AD
Battle of Manila between Goiti / Salcedo, and Rajah
Sulayman.
1570 AD
Founding of the village of Cebu by Legaspi
Legaspi arrives in Manila.
1571 AD
City of Manila founded.
1572 AD
Rajah Lakandula revolts against the Spaniards.
Chinese pirate, Limahong, attacks Manila.
1574 AD
Big Fire razes Manila
1583 AD
The Real Audencia is organized in Manila.
Sto. Domingo Church inaugurated
1584 AD
Phili ppine Events
Dates
1588 AD
Spanish Armada is destroyed by the British.
1589 AD
Shakespeare begins to write his plays
Pope Gregory XIV frees all Philippine slaves.
1591 AD
Manila declared capital City.
1595 AD
Cagayan. Magalat Revolt.
1596 AD
Naval encounter btween the Dutch and the
Spaniards under Morga.
1600 AD
Maguindanao. Datus Sirungan and Buisan Uprising.
c.1600-1800 AD
Mt.Province. Bontoc Revolt.
1601 AD
Great fire in Manila.
First Chinese revolt is suppressed.
1603 AD
University of Sto. Tomas founded in Manila
1611 AD
1616 AD
Defeat of Dutch fleet in the Manila Bay
Isabela. Iraya Revolt.
Bohol. Tamblot Revolt.
Dutch founds Batavia (Jakarta)
1620 AD
Landing of the Mayflower
1621 AD
1621-1622 AD
Caraga Revolt.
1629 AD
Maguindanao. Datu Dipatuan Uprising.
1633 BC
1637 AD
Korea becomes Manchu vassal state
1641 AD
Dutch capture Malacca from Portuguese
1643 AD
1644-1911 AD
The Dutch attack Jolo.
Earthquake levels Manila.
1645 AD
The Dutch attack is defeated off Corregidor.
1646 AD
1648 AD
1649-1650 AD
Pampanga. Francisco Maniago Revolt.
1660 AD
Ilocos. Pedro Almazan Revolt.
1661 AD
Panay. Tapar Revolt.
1663 AD
Zambales. Francisco Maniego Revolt.
Manchus invade China
1619 AD
1627 AD
Samar. Sumuroy Revolt.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
1617 AD
Sulu. Datu Ache Uprising.
Bulacan. Malolos Revolt.
World Events
1681-1683 AD
Manchu Dynasty in China
Taj Mahal by Shah Jehan
Phili ppine Events
Taal Volcano erupts.
Dates
1683 AD
China conquers Formosa
1720 BC
Tibet becomes tributary of China.
1730 AD
Height of Rococo period in art and architecture
1754 AD
Bohol. Francisco Dagohoy Revolt.
Successful Filpino rebellion that formed a local
enclave within the Spanish colonial regime.
1744-1829 AD
Taguig, Rizal. Tagalog Agrarian Revolt.
Balayan, Batangas. Agrarian Rebolt.
1745-1746 AD
Jolo, Sulu. Datu Salicaya Uprising.
1757 AD
The British under Cornish and Draker attacks Manila.
1762 AD
Pangasinan. De la Cruz, Palaris, Diego and Gabriela
Silang, Andres Malong Revolts.
Treaty between Spain and England returns the
Philippines to Spain.
1762-1764 AD
1763 AD
1775-1783 AD
Batanes. Aman Dagat Revolt.
Siam gains independence from Burma
1786 AD
British East Indies Company base at Penang, Malaysia
1788 AD
Fleet of convicts establilshes British penal colony in
Australia
1789 AD
Washington, first president of US.
Outbreak of the French Revolution
1791 AD
1792 AD
France declared a Republic Dollar official currency of
the US
1799 AD
British takes control of South India
1804 AD
Napoleon Bonaparte becomes emperor of France
1801 AD
Del Superior Gobierno, earliest newspaper in the
Philippines is published
1811 AD
Galleon Trade ends.
1815 AD
Nautical School in Manila is established
1820 AD
Manila. Novales Mutiny
1823 AD
Tayabas. Hermano Pule Uprising.
American War of Independence
1776 AD
The Basi Revolt.
Abolition of Philippine representation in
the Spanish Cortes.
World Events
Battle of Waterloo
1825 AD
Indonesians revolt against the Dutch.
1835 AD
Melbourne is founded.
1837 AD
1840-1841 AD
Phili ppine Events
Dates
1842 AD
Seminario Filipino, weekly newspaper founded
Manila. Samaniego Uprising.
1843 AD
La Estrella de Manila, 2nd daily is published
1847 AD
Diario de Manila, 3rd weekly is published
1848 AD
El Comercio, starts publication
1852 AD
World Events
Opium War
Britain annexes Hongkong.
Communist Manifesto, Marx, Engels
1858 AD
Miracle at Lourdes
1861 AD
American Civil War
El Catolico Filipino, is published
1862 AD
Earthquake reduces Manila to rubble.
Isabela. Baladon and Labutawi Revolt.
1863 AD
Indochina becomes French protectorate.
1864 AD
Red Cross is founded in Switzerland.
Secondary education in the Philippines is
organized divided into private and public.
1865 AD
Revista de Administracion, is published
1866 AD
Cavite Mutiny.
Execution of Fathers Gomez, Burgos and Zamora.
1868 AD
Meiji Restoration in Japan, modernization of Japan
1869 AD
Opening of the Suez Canal
1872 AD
1874 AD
Maguindanao. Datu Utto Revolt.
1876-1887 AD
Diario de Filipinas, is founded.
Cable communication between the
Philippines and Hongkong.
1880 AD
Monthly,Revista Agustiniana,is published
1881 AD
Cholera epidemic ravages in Manila.
1882 AD
La Oceania Espanola is published
1883 AD
First weekly, La Semana Elegante, is published
1884 AD
Sulu. Pangiyan Inchi Jamila Revolt.
Kalayaan of Emilio Jacinto is published.
Debate in the Spanish Senate on Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere.
The Spanish Civil Code is introduced into the Philippines.
La Solidaridad is published.
Lanao. Datu Akadar (Amai Pakpak) Revolt.
Impressionists first exhibition in Paris
Krakatoa Volcano in Java erupts.
1884-1893 AD
1886 AD
1889 AD
1889 AD
1890-1893 AD
Upper Burma is annexed by the British.
Phili ppine Events
Dates
World Events
The Trans-Siberian railway.
El Filibusterismo is printed in Belgium.
El Resumen of Isabelo de los Reyes published.
1891 AD
Liga Filipina established by Dr. Jose Rizal
The Katipunan founded by Andres Bonifacio
1892 AD
Revista Farmaceutica de Filipinas is published
The Maura Law for Philippine local government
reform is passed.
1893 AD
New Zealand gives women the right to vote - first
country to do so.
French protectorate over Laos.
First Encounter between the Katipunan and the
Spaniards in the Philippine Revolution.
Katipunan Flag is unfurled in Balintawak.
Ang Kalayaan, Katipunan paper is published
Eight provinces revolt.
Rizal is executed.
1896 AD
First Modern Olympics.
Execution of the 13 Martyrs of Bagumbayan.
The Tejeros Convention proclaims the independence
of the Philippines
Trial and execution of Bonifacio.
Pact of Biac na Bato stops hostilities between
the Filipinos and Spaniards.
1897 AD
First hoisting of the Filipino flag, and Battle of Imus
beginning the successful series of battles against
Spanish soverreingty.
Philippine Independence is declared in Kawit.
Philippine National Anthem played for the first time.
Mabini issues his “True Decalogue” on man’s conduct.
Batanes. Reafael Perea Uprising.
La Independencia of Antonio Luna is published.
1898 AD
Zamboanga. Vicente Alvarez Revolt.
The Philippine Republic established, the Malolos
Constitution is in effect.
The Supreme Court supercedes the old Real de
Audencia.
Battle of Tirad Pass.
Misamis. Nicolas Capistrano Revolt.
Spanish-American War. Cuba gains independence.
Treaty of Paris between US and Spain.
1898-1900 AD
1899 AD
1899-1900 AD
Philippines declares state of war with the United States
Treaty of Paris is ratified by US congress ceding the
Philippines to the US by Spain.
The Manila Daily Bulletin is founded.
Magna Carta of the Philippines.
1900 AD
Russia occupies Manchuria
Boxer Rebellion in China.
The Department of Public Instuction is formed.
Aguinaldo surrenders to the Americans in Palanan, Isabela.
600 trained teachers arrive in US ShipThomas.
The Philippine Normal College is established.
1901 AD
First Nobel Prize.
First labor union is organized.
Philippine Assembly is established.
Termination of the Philippine-American War.
Iglesia Filipina Independiente is proclaimed by Isalelo
delos Reyes with Gregorio Aglipay as bishop
1902 AD
Sulu. Panglima Hassan Revolt.
1903-1905 AD
Phili ppine Events
The Philippine Postal Savings Bank is formed.
Dates
1905 AD
Albert Einstein’s theory of Relativity
1906 AD
Mahatma Gandhi campaign of non- violences begins in Africa
1907 AD
Cubist painting in Paris.
Act 1870 creates the University of the Philippines.
Philippines Free Press issues 1st number
1908 AD
City of Baguio is founded.
1909 AD
Taal Volcano erupts.
Rizal monument is inaugurated.
Sulu. Nakib Amil Uprising.
1910 AD
Japan annexes Korea.
Abstract painting in Europe
1911 AD
Chinese Revolution. Manchu Dynasty overthrown.
1912 AD
Kuomintang, Chinese nationalist party
founded under Sun Yat Sen
1913 AD
1914-1918 AD
Mayon Volcano erupts.
1914 AD
Jones Law is approved which provides autonomy for
Filipinos and their independence.
1916 AD
First poetic debate, “Balagtasan” held in
Manila between Jose Corazon de Jesus and
Florentino Collantes.
World Events
First World War. Emperor of Japan declares war
on Germany.
1917 AD
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
1919 AD
Gandhi begins civil disobedience in India.
1921 AD
Communist party founded in China.
1924 AD
1925 AD
Chiang Kai Shek takes over Kuomintang
1926 AD
Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
1930 AD
Japan occupies Manchuria.
Passage of Philippine Independence Bill by
the US for independence in eight years.
1932 AD
Tydings-Macduffie Law is signed by Roosevelt to give
Philippine independence after 10 years.
1934 AD
Long March by Chinese communists.
The Philippine Constittuion is adopted.
The Philippine Air Force is organized.
The Sakdalista Uprising for agrarian reform.
Commonwealth of the Philippines inaugurated.
Manuel L. Quezon, President.
1935 AD
Persia becomes Iran
The Court of Appeals is created
1936 AD
Filipino women vote for the first time in a
plebiscite on women’s suffrage.
1937 AD
War between China and Japan
Phili ppine Events
Dates
World Events
1939 AD
Second World War
1940 AD
Japan occupies Indochina
Battle of Britain.
The National Assembly nationalizes labor in the Philippines.
Japan invades the Philippines.
2nd Commonwealth inaugurated in Corregidor with
Manuel L. Quezon as President.
1941 AD
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. Pacific War starts.
Japanese occupy City of Manila.
The Hukbalahap is established.
Fall of Bataan to the Japanese forces.
Surrender of Corregidor.
Jose Laurel President under the Japanese regime.
1942 AD
Japan occupies Singapore
Battle of the Philippine Sea.
US Congress authorizes US President to declare
Philippine Independence on July 4,1946
McArthur and Osmena land in Leyte
1944 AD
Liberation of the Philippines from Japanese forces.
Pacific War ends.
1945 AD
Reparations Agreement is signed between Japan and
the Philippines.
Manuel Roxas elected President.
American proclamation of Philippines Independence.
1946 AD
“Parity Rights” amendment to the constitution.
Military Assistance Pact between the Philippines and
the United States.
1947 AD
India and Pakistan become states.
1948 AD
Gandhdi assassinated.
Israel becomes a state.
Elpidio Quirino elected President.
1949 AD
The communist Manila Politburo is smashed
1950 AD
Ramon Magsaysay elected President.
1953 AD
Atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Constitution of the United Nations.
Korean War. China invades Tibet.
1957 AD
Launching of the Sputnik by Russia
Malaya becomes independent.
Diosdado Macapagal elected President.
1961 AD
Yuri Gagarin, first man in space.
President Macapagal moves Independence Day
celebration from July 4 to June 12.
1962 AD
Taal Volcano erupts.
Ferdinand E. Marcos elected President.
1965 AD
Cultural Revolution in China.
1966 AD
Mao Tse Tung’s Cultural Revolution
1969 AD
Man walks on the moon
Declaration of Martial Law
Parliamentary Government is established
1972 AD
1975 AD
Ninoy Aquino is assassinated.
1983 AD
Vietnam War ends.
Phili ppine Events
Dates
World Events
1984 AD
Brunei becomes independent
Ferdinand E. Marcos re-elected President.
1989 AD
Communist regimes fall in Eastern Europe
Fall of the Berlin Wall.
“People Power revolution”. Marcos is deposed.
Corazon Aquino is elected President.
Return to Presidential form of Government
1986 AD
1990 AD
Iraq invades Kuwait.
Mt. Pinatubo volcano erupts.
1991 AD
Civil War in Yoguslavia.
The Gulf War
Fidel Ramos is elected President.
National Commission for Culture and the Arts is
established.
Manlilikha ng Bayan Act is approved recognizing
national “Living Treasures”
1992 AD
Philippine Independence Centennial Celebration
Joseph Ejercito Estrada elected President.
1998 AD
1999 AD
War in Kosovo. Ethnic Cleansing.
The Millennium Computer Bug
2000 AD
The Millennium Computer Bug
The New Millennium
People Power II. Estrada is deposed. Arroyo
ascends to presidency.
2001 AD
The New Millenium
Arroyo is re-elected/VP de Castro
2004 AD