When was philippines first discovered

Coconuts were also widespread on the island and various technologies were employed for its many uses. Betel and betel nut chewing were widespread.

Pigafetta took note of different liquors: palm wine or brandy drunk by Kolambu, chief of Limasawa. They stayed for eight days on the island, where Magellan befriended Kolambu, together with his brother Siaui, the rajah of Butuan. Pedro Valderrama, the Andalusian chaplain of the fleet, in a place he identified as Mazaua Limasawa, now a sixth-class municipality at the tip of Southern Leyte.

Rajah Kolambu and Siaui attended the Mass with their people who later embraced the Christian faith. A wooden cross was erected on top of the hill overlooking the sea. In the presence of the two kings, Magellan took ownership of the island where he had landed in the name of King Charles V and named the Archipelago Saint Lazarus, for it was the day of the saint when the armada reached the island.

With Malay as lingua franca, intensive commercial and cultural contacts were entertained by Filipinos with Dunia Melayu. Believed to be a Malay member of the expedition, Enrique was acquired as a slave by Magellan when he was just 14, probably in the early stages of the Siege of Malacca. Pigafetta stated that he was a native of Sumatra.

At that time, Corpuz wrote, Cebu was already relatively developed and had dealings with foreigners. It was then that Magellan decided to meddle in the affairs of the island leaders and ordered the burning of the village of Bulaia on Mactan so that these chiefs will recognize Humabon as their leader. The principal village on the island of Mactan was Mactan, with two chiefs—Zula and Lapulapu.

He asked that a boatload of armed men be sent to him and help subjugate Lapulapu. But the next night, Magellan himself decided to lead his force of 60 soldiers in corselets and helmets.

Three hours before dawn, they arrived in Mactan, and immediately informed Lapulapu that if he and his people will recognize the king of Spain and pay tribute they would be friends.

When Lapulapu reacted angrily to this manner of offering friendship, Magellan decided to do battle with the natives. According to Pigafetta, to confront Lapulapu they were forced to anchor their ships far from shore due to the shallow water filled with rocks and coral reefs. Magellan and his men then waded through the shallow water to do battle with the natives. A number of the natives who were Christian converts came to their aid. The Spaniards were surrounded by warriors who attacked from the front and both flanks.

The musketeers and crossbowmen on the boat tried to provide support by firing from the boats. Due to the same distance, Magellan could not command them to stop and save their ammunition, and the musketeers and crossbowmen continued firing for half an hour until their ammunition was exhausted. Magellan, hoping to ease the attack, set fire to some of the houses, but this only enraged the natives even more. Magellan was finally hit with a poisoned arrow through his unarmored legs, at which time the natives charged the Europeans for close-quarters combat.

Seeing that, Magellan sent some men to burn their houses in order to terrify them. When they saw their houses burning, they were roused to greater fury. On that account, he ordered us to a frontal assault.

This line, defined as the meridian situated leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands, would divide the spheres of influence of the Spanish crown westwards of the demarcation line and the Portuguese crown eastwards of the same line.

In the following year, the demarcation line was shifted leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands in the Treaty of Tordesillas , a modification that was sanctioned by Pope Julius II in However, the colonization of the Pacific Ocean by the Spanish occurred from the opposite direction and more specifically from the Spanish possessions in America.

He had been equipped with five ships by Luis de Velasco , the viceroy of New Spain, and left Acapulco in But, more important, they were united by a common hatred of the Spanish conqueror and all he stood for. This alienated many Filipinos and brought the church orders into sharp conflict with Spanish officials who resented their growing political power. Some of the church lands remain to this day as centers of social unrest. The Aglipayan or Independent church of the Philippines, formed at the time of the final revolution against Spain, was an added protest against the all-Spanish nature of religious as well as political control.

Before our own American Revolution, the Filipinos had risen a half-dozen times against their Spanish overlords, and there were numerous lesser rebellions. Because the Filipinos had been unable during the nineteenth century to secure reforms peaceably, a secret society of the common people, the Katipunan, was formed in Revolution finally broke out in August , and it was inflamed still further by the execution of Jose Rizal, the Filipino leader and national hero.

There are many heroes in Philippine history, but none stands out like Rizal. One of the small number of Filipinos able to secure a good education and to study abroad, he came back to his native land anxious to improve the condition of his people and the government which Spain imposed upon them. He was executed in December , at the age of For a year thereafter the uneven struggle between the Filipinos and their Spanish overlords continued.

Then a peace was arranged, the revolutionary leaders having been led to believe that Spain would make the desired reforms in government.

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