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TIMELINEby Jesus T. Peralta

June 2005

Ardipitheus- early fossil hominid, Myanmar

Different Australopithecines in Africa

Espinosa Ranch Site, Cagayan Province.

Evidence for the presence of Man in the form oftwo 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.

Phili ppine Events World EventsDates

Homo habilis in Africa

Homo erectus, Java Man,in Indonesia

Homo erectus, Peking Man, in China.Stone tools; use of fire.

Homo sapiens sapiens

Cabatuan, Iloilo. Flake tools, elephas fossils;fossils also in Agusan Valley; Rizal,

Quezon City, and Pangasinan.

Homo sapiens neanderthalensis in Europe

Callao Man, Cagayan Valley Earliest H.sapiens sapiens in the Philippines and

Southeast Asia

Homo sapiens neanderthalensis burial

-50,000 of the dead with flowers.

Crossing of the Bering Straits from Asia to the American

continent

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.

Tabon Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Earliest

occupation. Flake stone tool assemblage.

Negrito Populations with eastern and western

branches on both sides of the Philippines

Beginning of sea level rise at the end of Ice Age asearth temperatures rise. Polar Ice begins to melt.

Cro-Magnon man

Altamira Rock paintings

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

Laurente Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan, N. Luzon

inhabited with flake stone tools of chert,andesite,

opalines; burnt bones.

Guri Cave. Lipuun Point, Palawan. Flake stone

tools, marine shells.Sea about the present level. Land bridges, loast coastal

areas inundated.

Pottery in Padah-Lin Cave in Myanmar.

Food plants grown in the fertile crescent; beans, peas,

water chestnuts grown in Thailand.

4.4 m.y

4.2-1.8 m.yrs.

2 m.yrs.

1.5 m.yrs.

to 27000 yrs.

.9+-.17 m.yrs.

co-eval

100000 BC

75000-35000 BC

67,000 BC

60,000 BC

50000-45000 BC

47,000 BC

30000-20000 BC

16,700 BC

16000-8000 BC

13000 BC12220-9780 BC

10000 BC

9750 BC Cultivation in Thailand, peas, beans, etc.

Tibia in Tabon Cave


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Guri Cave, Chamber A, Lipuun Point, Palawan.

Flake tools, blade-like stone tools, marine

marine shells.

Domistication of Bovines in Thailand

Duyung Cave, Palawan, ground shell tools

trapezoidal stone adzes, side and center

perforated shell disks, shell lime container

Late Neolithic Age culture.

Bagumbayan, Masbate. Pottery

Pilanduk Cave, Iwaig, Palawan. Edge-ground tools,

flake tools, jar burial.

Musang Cave, Penablanca. Pottery, flake tools,

human bones, earthenware beads

Dimolit, Isabela. House floor, jadeite beads potteryEarliest evidence for house.

Musang Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan.

Shell, flake tools, pottery

Amazon pottery, earliest in the Americas

Callao Cave, Penablanca,Cagayan. Flake tools.

Duyung Cave, Iwahig, Palawan. probable jar burial

Duyung Cave, Palawan.Edge-ground stone and Tridacna shell tools.

Rabel Cave, Panablanca, Cagayan.Flake tools, pottery.

Pilanduk Cave, Iwaig, Palawan.

Edge-ground tools, flakes, jar burialTowns in Egypt, Memphis, Central Egypt

Wheeled vehicles in Central Europe Peru grows cotton

and corn

Wheel and potters wheel in Sumer, Indus Valley.

Dimolit, Isabela. House floor, jadeit beads, pottery,

mortars, whetstone, adzes.

Cuneiform writing in Sumer

Standing Stones in Britain and France

Bolobok Cave, Sanga-Sanga, Tawi-Tawi bronze celt, red

glass bead, potteryEarly Metal Age Culture.

Hieroglyphic writing in Egypt

Olives, vines, cereals grown in the Aegean area; rye and

oats grown in Europe. Pottery in Ecuador, Columbia.

Talikod Island, Samal, Davao. Occupation debris.

5000-2000 BC

4850-4400 BC

4700-4140 BC

4500-3500 BC

4340-2530 BC

4120-3755 BC

4095 BC

4000 BC

3890 BC

3810-3650 BC

3675-3015 BC

3545-2190 BC

3500 BC

3500-3200 BC

3400 BC

3370 BC

3300 BC

3200 BC

3190 BC

3100 BC

3000 BC

2930 BC


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Guri Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Flake tools.

Corn grown in Argentina.

Dimolit, Isabela. Flakes, jasper blades with silica gloss,

pottery Evidence for reaping.

Duyung Cave, Iwaig, Palawan.

Flexed burial, tridacna adzes, shell lime container,

shell disk ornaments, habitation.

Pintu Cave, Isabela.

Core tools, flake tools, small blade-like tools.

Dimolit, Isabela. House floor.

House floor, flake tools, small jasper blades, silica gloss

Talikod, Samal Is., Davao.

Flake shell and stone tools, midden.

Step pyramid, Sphinx in Egypt,

Manga Site, Andarayan, Cagayan. Rice husk embedded

in pottery, polished adzes, spindle whorl.Earliest evidence for rice. Evidence for weaving.

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

Lallo, Cagayan. Fresh water shell midden, pottery,

bones, trapezoidal stone adzes

Bagumbayan, Masbate. Buff colored pottery

Edjek, Negros. Pottery, fired clay lumps

Pottery in Mexico.

Magapit Bridge, Cagayan. Shell, polished stone

tools, plain red-slipped pottery

Binangonan, Rizal. Angono Petroglyphs Chopsticks in use in China

Dimolit, Isabela. Flake tools, blades with silica gloss

Rabel Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan. Flake tools, pottery.

Lemery. Batangas. Pottery

First Assyrian Empire

Shang Dynasty in Northern China

Arku Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan. Footed

pottery,bones, shell beads, baked clay bead.

2880 BC

2865 BC

2700 BC

2680 BC

2655-2120 BC

2650-2710 BC

2650-2315 BC

2600-2550 BC

2610-2130 BC

2550 BC

2500-2100 BC

2500 BC

2395-1735 BC

2310-1735 BC

2305-1410 BC

2300 BC

2125-1745 BC

c.2000 BC

1860 BC

1855 BC

1850 BC

1814 BC

1766 BC

1660-890 BC

1580-1079 Shang Dynasty in China. Bronze pots


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Rabel Cave, Penablanca, Cagayan. Flake tool, pottery.

Santorini destroyed in the Meditarranean

Banaue, Ifugao. Dates occupation in a house platform

presumably. Terracing probably present/root cropping

Ngipet Duldog Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan.

Jar burial, stepped adze, stone and shell beads.

Lanna, Cagayan. Stone adzes, spindle whorls.

Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan.

Jar burial, elaborate pottery, jade beads.

Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan.

Jar burial, elaborate pottery, jade beads.

David unites the Jews. Capital at Jerusalem

Hebrew Exodus

Destruction of Troy by the Myceneans

Batungan Cave, Masbate. Kalanay-type pottery.

Bato Caves, Sorsogon. Jar burials with shells,

adzes, shell beads and bracelets.

The Rig Veda of India is written down.

Astronomical laboratory, maps dictionaries in ChinaCopper smelting in the Andes

Solomon becomes King of Israel, begins to build

temple.

Etruscans appear in Italy

Carthage is founded by the Phoenicians

Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Pt.,Palawan. Late Neolithicburial, elaborate pottery, jade beads. Manunggul Jar.

Arku Cave, Cagayan. Red-slipped pottery, ochre

covered bones, bone points.

Iliad and Odyssey are composed.

Age of Prophesy among the Hebrew

Eastern Chou Dynasty in China

Pintu Cave, Isabela. Pottery, glass beads, stone tools.

Batungan Cave 2, Masbate.

Stone adzes Kalanay- type pottery.

Odyssey and Iliad, poetry in Greek pottery

1570 BC

1545-825 BC

1500-1000 BC

1470 BC

1380 BC

1330 BC

1255-605 BC

1005-1250 BC

1445 BC

1220 BC

1165 BC

1000-225 BC

1000 BC

972-953 BC

900 BC

900-801 BC

895-775 BC

805-390 BC

801-701 BC

800 BC

770 BC

765 BC

756 BC

750 BC


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Phili ppine Events World Events

Bato Caves, Sorosogon. Pottery, quadrangular

adzes, jar burial, shell beads and bracelets

Pyramic tombs of Nubian kings.

Sheep in East Africa.

Iron tools and weapons in North Africa

Dates

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Taoism in China

Nebuchadnessar destroys Jerusalem.

Israel banished to Babylon

End of Israel captivity in Babylon under Cyrus who

founds first Persian Empire

Birth of Buddhism

Foundation of the Roman Empire

Cortez Site, Cagayan. Burial site. Metal site.

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.

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.

Pintu Cave, Isabela. Pottery, Glass beads, stone tools

Attila, the Hun ravages Europe

Hindu Ramayana Epic

Trial and death of Socrates

Alexander the Great starts Greek rule from the East to

India

Great Library in Alexandria

Guri Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Jar burial, bronze,

glass and gold beads, jade ear pendants.

Taoism based on Tao-te Ching, attributed to Lao Tse.

Yayoi Culture in Japan.

The Colossus of Rhodes

Pharos, lighthouse in Alexandria

7000 Terra-cotta warriors guard

Emperor Shihs tomb in China

Great Wall of China completed

Rito-Fabian Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan.

jar burial, iron, copper, bronze, glass and jade earpendants, 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.

700 BC

690-635 BC

601-501 BC

600 BC

587 BC

538 BC

528 BC

509 BC

c.500 BC-500 AD

500-300 BC

435-165 BC

430 BC

425 BC

399 BC

332 BC

307 BC

300-100 BC

282 BC

280 BC

210 BC

204 BC

200-100 BC

c.200 BC

200 BC-200 AD


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Manunggul Cave, Chamber B, Lipuun Point, Palawan.

Jar burial, iron, glass and stone, glass bracelets.

Earliest date for iron.

Developed Metal Age culture.

Rosetta Stone inscribed in Egypt

Silk Road opens between China and the West

Tadyaw Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan. Jar burial,

trunconical covers, iron, bronze, glass, gold,carnelian, glass and jade bracelets.

Mt. Vesuvius, destruction of Pompeii

Caesar crosses the Rubicon

Great Library of Alexandria destroyed

Hebrews occupy Canaan

Birth of Christ

Maitum Cave, Sarangani. Anthropomorphic burial jars,

glass beads, bracelets. Kalanay-type pottery.

Gun powder is invented in China

Passion of Christ (14th-15th of Nisan)

London is established by the Romans

Great Fire in Rome

Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans

Porcelain first made in China

Tsai Lun makes paper in China

Earliest Sanskrit inscription.

Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon at Teotihuacan,Valley of Mexico.

Ramayana and Bhagavad Gita in India

Han Dynasty reunites China

Magnetic compass in China

Talmud is issued by Jewish scholars

Confucianism introduced in Japan

Mass production of iron in Europe

197 BC

190 BC

112 BC

100 BC-300 AD

79 BC

49 BC

47 BC

13 BC

8-5 BC

5 BC-225 AD

ANNO

DOMINI

11 AD

26-36 AD

43 AD

64 AD

70 AD

c.100 AD

105 AD

150 AD

200 AD

202-220 AD

271 AD

279 AD

285 AD

300 AD

313 AD Constantines vision of the cross.

Christianity becomes official religion of the Roman

Empire


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Libertad, Butuan City.

Large edge-pegged plank boats- Earliest dated boat.

Byzantine Empire in Constantinopole

Dates

Books start to replace scrolls in Europe

Sasak Shelter, Kalatagbak, Palawan.

Pottery,iron, glass beads.

Writing begins in Japan with Chinese ideographs

Chi Dynasty in China

Decimal system devised in India

Kulaman Plateau,Cotabato, Mindanao. Stone urnburial, pottery jar burial.

Decimal system devised in India

Birth of Mohammad (-632)

Printing press is invented in China using wooden

blocks

Buddhism becomes official religion of Japan

Bunghalian, Ifugao. Terrace dating

Tang Dynasty with Chang-an as capital

Hegira- Flight of Mohammad to Medina

Mecca is conquered and becomes center of Islam

Persian Empire falls to the Muslims

Lungun Cave, Kalatagbak, Palawan.

Wood coffin burials, iron, pottery.

Golden Age of Chinese poetry

Maori arrives in New Zealand

Arabs develop numerals system

Baghdad becomes center of Muslim culture

Charlemagne becomes first Holy Roman emperor

Angkor Kingdon in Cambodia

Vietnam becomes independent of China

Song Dynasty in China

Sinoloan Copper plate: earliest evidence of writing

in the Philippines - a legal quit-claim.

320 AD

330 AD

360 AD

400-600 AD

479-502 AD

500 AD

500-670 AD

535 AD

570 AD

593 AD

594 AD

610 AD

618-960 AD

622 AD

625 AD

641 AD

700-900 AD

750 AD

760 AD

763 AD

800 AD

802 AD

939 AD

960-1270 AD

c.1000 AD

c.1000 ADLaurel, 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.


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Bubulungun Cave I-B, Lipuun Point, Palawan.Secondary jar burial, iron, Indo-Roman beads,

Song dynasty trade ceramics.

Chess is developed in India

Magmisi Shelf, Iwaig, Palawan. Secondary burial in jars,

Song Dynasty trade ceramics.

Limao-Limao Cave, Ransang, Palawan. cave burial

Magnetic compass invented in China.

First movable type printing in China

Tausug moves from NE Mindanao to SW to

the Sulu archipelago

Buad Island, Samar. Small blade and flake, silica gloss

Song Dynasty rules only in South China

Hindu Angkor Vat in Cambodia

Founding of Moscow

Saladin builds Cairo in Egypt

Sta. Ana, Manila. Early Blue and White Chinese

trade ceramics. Islamic burials ?

Nabyun, Ifugao. Terrace dating.

Aztecs occupy Mexico

Genghis Khan begins Asian conquest

First Thai kingdom appears

Ugpay Cave, Ransang, Palawan. Habitation

Mongols destroy Chin Empire

Batuan City. Large edge-pegged boat.

Khublai Khan governs China

Mongol Genghis Khan. Yuan Dynasty in China.

Marco Polo reaches China

Gunpowder produced in Europe

Kuruswanan Ledge, Palawan.

Primary coffin burial. Yuan Dynasty ceramics.

Balingasay, Pangasinan.

Pottery, monochome Chinese tradeware.

Kuruswanan Ledge, Kuruswanan, Palawan.Primary burial in log coffin, Yuan Dynasty ceramics.

cannon first used in Europe at Metz.

1000-1100 AD

500-1010 AD

1100-1200 AD

1040 AD

1050 AD

c.1100

1115 AD

1126 AD

1150 AD

1156 AD

1166 AD

1175 AD

1195-1380 AD

1200 AD

1206 AD

1220 AD

1230 AD

1234 AD

1250 AD

1251 AD

1260-1380 AD

1275 AD

1300 AD

c.1300-1400 AD

c.1300-1500 AD

1300-1400 AD

1320 AD

1350 AD Height of Madjapahit Empire in Java Aztec capital,Tinochtitlan, founded.


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Introduction of Islam into the Philippines

Ming Dynasty in China established

Dates

Calatagan, Batangas.

Pottery, blue and white Chinese, Thai ceramics.

Chinese encyclopedia, Yung Lo Ta Tien

Chen Hos Voyages from China to Africa

Beijing, the Forbidden City, established

Cotta Wayngan, Jolo.

Tausug Fort. With no European ceramics.

Gutenberg introduces the printing press

Bungiao Cave, Zamboanga.

Thai, Vietnamese Chinese tradeware.

Columbus lands at San Salvador

Papal Bull placing the East Indies under Spain.

Vasco de Gama reaches India via the Cape of Good

Hope

Ferdinand Magellan lands in Philippines.

Lapu-Lapu resists Spanish incursion.Magellan dies in Mactan Is. Battle.

Martin Luther starts church reformation

Spanish Hernan Cortes razes Aztec city, Tinochtitlan

(today Mexico City)

Francisco Pizarro arrives in Peru

Henry VIII establishes Church of England

Copernicus suggests earth rotates around the sun

Council of Trent to reform Catholic Church

Gregorian calendar is introduced

Legaspi arrives in Cebu.

First Philippine Spanish Treaty of Peace is drawn whereFilipinos recognized Spanish sovereignty and gets

protection in return. Christianity is introduced.

Battle of Manila between Goiti / Salcedo, and Rajah

Sulayman.

Founding of the village of Cebu by Legaspi

Legaspi arrives in Manila.

City of Manila founded.

Rajah Lakandula revolts against the Spaniards.

Chinese pirate, Limahong, attacks Manila.

Big Fire razes Manila

1368-1644 AD

c.1400 AD

c.1400-1500 AD

1405 AD

1420 AD

1440-1660 AD

1450 AD

1460-1915 AD

1486-1788

1492 AD

1493 AD

1498 AD

1517 AD

1521 AD

1532 AD

1534 AD

1543 AD

1544 AD

1545 AD

1565 AD

1570 AD

1571 AD

1572 AD

1574 AD

1583 AD

1584 ADThe Real Audencia is organized in Manila.

Sto. Domingo Church inaugurated

Bocos, Banaue rapid rice terraces expansion(302 yrs. From valley to mountain top)


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Pope Gregory XIV frees all Philippine slaves.

Spanish Armada is destroyed by the British.

Dates

Shakespeare begins to write his plays

Manila declared capital City.

Cagayan. Magalat Revolt.

Naval encounter btween the Dutch and the

Spaniards under Morga.

Maguindanao. Datus Sirungan and Buisan Uprising.

Mt.Province. Bontoc Revolt.

Great fire in Manila.

First Chinese revolt is suppressed.

Shakespeares Hamlet.

University of Sto. Tomas founded in Manila

Manchus invade China

Defeat of Dutch fleet in the Manila Bay

Dutch founds Batavia (Jakarta)

Landing of the Mayflower

Isabela. Iraya Revolt.

Bohol. Tamblot Revolt.

Sulu. Datu Ache Uprising.

Caraga Revolt.

Maguindanao. Datu Dipatuan Uprising.

Korea becomes Manchu vassal state

Dutch capture Malacca from Portuguese

Bulacan. Malolos Revolt.

Manchu Dynasty in China

The Dutch attack Jolo.

Earthquake levels Manila.

The Dutch attack is defeated off Corregidor.

Taj Mahal by Shah Jehan

Samar. Sumuroy Revolt.

Pampanga. Francisco Maniago Revolt.

Ilocos. Pedro Almazan Revolt.

Panay. Tapar Revolt.

Zambales. Francisco Maniego Revolt.

1588 AD

1589 AD

1591 AD

1595 AD

1596 AD

1600 AD

c.1600-1800 AD

1601 AD

1603 AD

1611 AD

1616 AD

1617 AD

1619 AD

1620 AD

1621 AD

1621-1622 AD

1627 AD

1629 AD

1633 BC

1637 AD

1641 AD

1643 AD

1644-1911 AD

1645 AD

1646 AD

1648 AD

1649-1650 AD

1660 AD

1661 AD

1663 AD

1681-1683 AD


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Tibet becomes tributary of China.

Taal Volcano erupts.

Height of Rococo period in art and architecture

Bohol. Francisco Dagohoy Revolt.

Successful Filpino rebellion that formed a localenclave within the Spanish colonial regime.

Taguig, Rizal. Tagalog Agrarian Revolt.

Balayan, Batangas. Agrarian Rebolt.

Jolo, Sulu. Datu Salicaya Uprising.

The British under Cornish and Draker attacks Manila.

Pangasinan. De la Cruz, Palaris, Diego and Gabriela

Silang, Andres Malong Revolts.

Treaty between Spain and England returns the

Philippines to Spain.

American War of Independence

Siam gains independence from Burma

British East Indies Company base at Penang, Malaysia

Fleet of convicts establilshes British penal colony in

Australia

Washington, first president of US.

Outbreak of the French Revolution

Batanes. Aman Dagat Revolt.

France declared a Republic Dollar official currency of

the US

British takes control of South India

Napoleon Bonaparte becomes emperor of France

The Basi Revolt.

Del Superior Gobierno, earliest newspaper in the

Philippines is published

Galleon Trade ends. Battle of Waterloo

Nautical School in Manila is established

Manila. Novales Mutiny

Indonesians revolt against the Dutch.

Melbourne is founded.

Abolition of Philippine representation in

the Spanish Cortes.

Tayabas. Hermano Pule Uprising.

1683 AD

1720 BC

1730 AD

1754 AD

1744-1829 AD

1745-1746 AD

1757 AD

1762 AD

1762-1764 AD

1763 AD

1775-1783 AD

1776 AD

1786 AD

1788 AD

1789 AD

1791 AD

1792 AD

1799 AD

1804 AD

1801 AD

1811 AD

1815 AD

1820 AD

1823 AD

1825 AD

1835 AD

1837 AD

1840-1841 AD

China conquers Formosa


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El Filibusterismo is printed in Belgium.

El Resumen of Isabelo de los Reyes published.

The Trans-Siberian railway.

Liga Filipina established by Dr. Jose Rizal

The Katipunan founded by Andres Bonifacio

Revista Farmaceutica de Filipinas is published

The Maura Law for Philippine local governmentreform is passed.

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.

First Modern Olympics.

Execution of the 13 Martyrs of Bagumbayan.

The Tejeros Convention proclaims the independenceof the Philippines

Trial and execution of Bonifacio.Pact of Biac na Bato stops hostilities between

the Filipinos and Spaniards.

First hoisting of the Filipino flag, and Battle of Imus

beginning the successful series of battles againstSpanish soverreingty.

Philippine Independence is declared in Kawit.

Philippine National Anthem played for the first time.

Mabini issues his True Decalogue on mans conduct.

Batanes. Reafael Perea Uprising.

La Independencia of Antonio Luna is published.

Spanish-American War. Cuba gains independence.

Treaty of Paris between US and Spain.

Zamboanga. Vicente Alvarez Revolt.

The Philippine Republic established, the Malolos

Constitution is in effect.

The Supreme Court supercedes the old Real deAudencia.

Battle of Tirad Pass.

Misamis. Nicolas Capistrano Revolt.

Philippines declares state of war with the United States

Treaty of Paris is ratified by US congress ceding thePhilippines to the US by Spain.

The Manila Daily Bulletin is founded.Magna Carta of the Philippines.

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.

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

1891 AD

1892 AD

1893 AD

1896 AD

1897 AD

1898 AD

1898-1900 AD

1899 AD

1899-1900 AD

1900 AD

1901 AD

1902 AD

1903-1905 ADSulu. Panglima Hassan Revolt.


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Albert Einsteins theory of Relativity

The Philippine Postal Savings Bank is formed. Mahatma Gandhi campaign of non- violences begins in Africa

Cubist painting in Paris.

Act 1870 creates the University of the Philippines.

Philippines Free Press issues 1st number

City of Baguio is founded.

Japan annexes Korea.

Abstract painting in Europe

Taal Volcano erupts. Chinese Revolution. Manchu Dynasty overthrown.

Kuomintang, Chinese nationalist party

founded under Sun Yat Sen

Rizal monument is inaugurated.

Sulu. Nakib Amil Uprising.

First World War. Emperor of Japan declares war

on Germany.

Mayon Volcano erupts.

Jones Law is approved which provides autonomy for

Filipinos and their independence.

Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

Gandhi begins civil disobedience in India.

Communist party founded in China.

First poetic debate, Balagtasan held in

Manila between Jose Corazon de Jesus andFlorentino Collantes.

Chiang Kai Shek takes over Kuomintang

Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.

Japan occupies Manchuria.

Passage of Philippine Independence Bill by

the US for independence in eight years.

Tydings-Macduffie Law is signed by Roosevelt to give

Philippine independence after 10 years.

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.

Long March by Chinese communists.

Persia becomes Iran

The Court of Appeals is created

1905 AD

1906 AD

1907 AD

1908 AD

1909 AD

1910 AD

1911 AD

1912 AD

1913 AD

1914-1918 AD

1914 AD

1916 AD

1917 AD

1919 AD

1921 AD

1924 AD

1925 AD

1926 AD

1930 AD

1932 AD

1934 AD

1935 AD

1936 AD

1937 ADFilipino women vote for the first time in a

plebiscite on womens suffrage.

War between China and Japan


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The National Assembly nationalizes labor in the Philippines.

Japan invades the Philippines.

2nd Commonwealth inaugurated in Corregidor with

Manuel L. Quezon as President.

Second World War

Japan occupies Indochina

Battle of Britain.

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.

Japan occupies Singapore

Battle of the Philippine Sea.

US Congress authorizes US President to declare

Philippine Independence on July 4,1946McArthur and Osmena land in Leyte

Liberation of the Philippines from Japanese forces.

Pacific War ends.

Atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Constitution of the United Nations.

Reparations Agreement is signed between Japan and

the Philippines.

Manuel Roxas elected President.American proclamation of Philippines Independence.

Parity Rights amendment to the constitution.

Military Assistance Pact between the Philippines and

the United States.

India and Pakistan become states.

Gandhdi assassinated.Israel becomes a state.

Elpidio Quirino elected President.

The communist Manila Politburo is smashed Korean War. China invades Tibet.

Ramon Magsaysay elected President.

Launching of the Sputnik by RussiaMalaya becomes independent.

Diosdado Macapagal elected President. Yuri Gagarin, first man in space.

President Macapagal moves Independence Daycelebration from July 4 to June 12.

Taal Volcano erupts.Ferdinand E. Marcos elected President.

Cultural Revolution in China.

Mao Tse Tungs Cultural Revolution

Man walks on the moon

Declaration of Martial Law

Parliamentary Government is established

Vietnam War ends.

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1983 ADNinoy Aquino is assassinated.


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Brunei becomes independent

Ferdinand E. Marcos re-elected President. 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

Iraq invades Kuwait.

Mt. Pinatubo volcano erupts. Civil War in Yoguslavia.

The Gulf War

Fidel Ramos is elected President.

National Commission for Culture and the Arts isestablished.

Manlilikha ng Bayan Act is approved recognizing

national Living Treasures

Philippine Independence Centennial Celebration

Joseph Ejercito Estrada elected President.

War in Kosovo. Ethnic Cleansing.

The Millennium Computer Bug The Millennium Computer Bug

The New Millennium

People Power II. Estrada is deposed. Arroyo

ascends to presidency.

The New Millenium

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