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The Definitive Timeline of Philippine History

Everything you’ve always wanted to know about the history of the Philippines, but were afraid to ask

Colony of Spain for more than three hundred years and of America for another fifty, the Philippines has had less than a hundred years to put its house in order on its own.

Here is a comprehensive timeline of Philippine history to understand how we have come to this present mess.

  1. Pre-Colonial Period
  2. Spanish Rule (with Nationalist Movement subsection)
  3. American Rule (with Japanese Occupation subsection)
  4. Independence

Pre-Colonial Period (Prehistory-1521)

Spanish Rule (1521-1898)

Uninvited, and with the help of cannons, guns and bayonets, the Spanish gently persuade the natives to abandon their heathen ways and embrace Jesus Christ. They also do some killing, stealing, land-grabbing, raping and torturing on the side.

Filipino Nationalist Movement (1872-1898)

After 300 years under Spanish yoke, Filipinos come to realize that they can probably do the oppression of their fellow Filipinos just as well as the Spanish, maybe even better.

American Rule (1898-1946)

Americans muscle in and assume the role of mentoring their Little Brown Brothers–after they massacre some of them first.

Japanese Occupation (1941-1945)

Japan entice the Filipinos to join its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere by bayonetting everyone to submission.

Independence (1946-present)

Unshackled from foreign intervention, Filipinos finally get free rein to run the country like hell.

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