{"slug": "luzon", "label": "Luzon", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzon", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125384", "qid": "Q125384", "description": "largest island of the Philippines", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [1175, 2022], "span_label": ["1175 CE", "2022 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "philippines", "label": "Philippines", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "manila", "label": "Manila", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "governor-general-of-the-philippines", "label": "Governor-General of the Philippines", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1175, "year_label": "1175 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Namayan Kingdom formed by a confederation of barangays, reaches its peak on Luzon (modern Philippines).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362172106#Asia", "title": "1175", "revid": 1362172106, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1571, "year_label": "1571 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24 – On the island of Luzon in the Philippines, Miguel López de Legazpi of Spain establishes a Spanish fortress at Manila Bay and, after making a peace pact with the Crown Prince of Luzon, Rajah Sulayman declares Manila to be the administrative capital of the Spanish East Indies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369367955#April–June", "title": "1571", "revid": 1369367955, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1603, "year_label": "1603 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 6", "text": "October 6 – On the Philippine island of Luzon, the Sangley Rebellion against Spanish rule ends with the massacre of 20,000 Sangley Chinese residents in Manila.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656830#October–December", "title": "1603", "revid": 1366656830, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1615, "year_label": "1615 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 17", "text": "September 17 – Los Baños, Laguna, is founded by Spanish colonists on Luzon island in the Philippines.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365922608#July–September", "title": "1615", "revid": 1365922608, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1668, "year_label": "1668 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 28", "text": "September 28 – Diego de Salcedo is overthrown from his position as the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines in a coup d'etat led by Juan Manuel de la Peña Bonifaz. Salcedo and other members of his administration are jailed and then sent into exile from Luzon to the island of Panay, and his fortune is confiscated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365989896#July–September", "title": "1668", "revid": 1365989896, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1898, "year_label": "1898 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – U.S. President William McKinley rejects a peace proposal that would result in Spain ceding the island of Luzon to the U.S., in return for Spanish control of the other Philippine Islands. McKinley's message to his five-man negotiating team in Paris is that \"Cessation of Luzon alone, leaving the rest of the islands subject to Spanish rule, or to be the subject of future contention, cannot be justified on political, commercial, or humanitarian grounds. The cessation must be the whole archipelago or none.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367547011#October", "title": "1898", "revid": 1367547011, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "August", "text": "Japanese vessels attack and sink the submarine off Luzon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#August", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 28", "text": "September 28 – Taal Volcano in Luzon, Philippines, erupts, killing hundreds.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#September–October", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 1973, "year_label": "1973 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 15", "text": "October 15 – Typhoon Ruth crosses Luzon, Philippines, killing 27 people and causing $5 million in damage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373239256#October", "title": "1973", "revid": 1373239256, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2019, "year_label": "2019 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "April 10", "text": "April 10 – Fossil fragments found in the Callao Cave in the Philippines reveal the existence of a new species of human, the Homo luzonensis. The species is named after Luzon, where the fossils were discovered.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373255188#April", "title": "2019", "revid": 1373255188, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "July 27", "text": "July 27 – A 7.0 earthquake strikes the island of Luzon in the Philippines killing 11 people and injuring over 600.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#July", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › July"}}]}