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Jan 1, 1521
In 1521, Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines
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Period: Jan 1, 1565 to
The Spanish East Indies were ruled as part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and administered from Mexico City from 1565 to 1821
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Feb 13, 1565
Spanish colonization and settlement began in February 13, 1565
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Jun 24, 1571
The expedition continued northward reaching the bay of Manila on the island of Luzon on June 24, 1571
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Period of British rule from 1762 to 1764
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Administered directly from Madrid, Spain from 1821 until the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898
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The Philippine Revolution against Spain began in August 1896
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U.S won in the Spanish–American War
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The U.S. had established a military government in the Philippines on August 14, 1898
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Civil government was inaugurated on July 1, 1901
An elected Philippine Assembly was convened in 1907 as the lower house of a bicameral legislature.[ -
In 1902. The Filipino leaders, for the most part, accepted that the Americans had won, but hostilities continued and only began to decline in 1913, leaving a total number of casualties on the Filipino side of more than one million dead, many of them civil
But hostilities continued and only began to decline in 1913, leaving a total number of casualties on the Filipino side of more than one million dead, many of them civilians. -
Commonwealth status was granted in 1935
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Philippines was interrupted by the Japanese during World War II
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After the end of the war, the Treaty of Manila established the Philippine Republic as an independent nation.
