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Philippines

278 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Philippines, 1892 CE to 2012 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

19th century

32 entries, 1892 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1892July 17 – Rizal is exiled to Dapitan.Philippinessource
  • 1892June 26 – José Rizal arrives in the Philippines from Europe via Hong Kong.Philippinessource
  • 1892July 6 – Rizal is arrested for establishing the La Liga Filipina.Philippinessource
  • 1892May 5 – A fire ravages the Tiambeng family home in Orion, Bataan, destroying many of Francisco Balagtas' original manuscripts.Philippinessource
  • 1895January 1 – First ever local elections were held as per the Maura Law passed in 1893.Philippinessource
  • 1895January 23 – Philippine Regional Exposition was held in Manila, wherein Governor-General Blanco declares a great future predestined for the Philippines.Philippinessource
  • 1895January 15 – The first issue of the Boletin del Museo-Biblioteca de Filipinas (Bulletin of the Museum-Library of the Philippines) is published.Philippinessource
  • 1895December 13 – Victorio Edades, Filipino painter (d. 1985)Philippinessource
  • 1896November 9-11 – Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas with more than 6,000 soldiers attacked the revolutionaries under Emilio Aguinaldo, resulting to the simultaneous Battle of Binakayan and Battle of Dalahican. It was the first major Filipino victory during the Philippine Revolution.Philippinessource
  • 1896October 7 – Paulino Alcántara, international footballer (d. 1964)Philippinessource
  • 1896December 30 - José Rizal, author and poet, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861)Philippinessource
  • 1897February 13 – Governor-General Camilo de Polavieja begins his campaign with 16,000 Spanish soldiers to regain Cavite from Filipino revolutionaries.Philippinessource
  • 1897February 17 – Filipino forces win in the Battle of Zapote Bridge at the boundary of Las Piñas and Cavite.Philippinessource
  • 1897March 22 – The two factions of the Katipunan convene at the Tejeros Convention to resolve the leadership status in the organization.Philippinessource
  • 1897March 3 – José Romero, Filipino politician (d. 1978)Philippinessource
  • 1898June 12 – Philippine Declaration of Independence is held at the ancestral home of Emilio Aguinaldo, proclaiming the sovereignty of the Philippines.Philippinessource
  • 1898July 1 – Filipino revolutionaries began the Siege of Baler in part of the offensive against Spanish troops.Philippinessource
  • 1898May 3 – The Ugong conferees are rowed upstream in 17 bancas to a part of the Pasig River known as Bitukang Manok. They are welcomed by Valentin Cruz, president of the Sangguinang Bayan of the Katipunan in Pasig. In this big gathering, called Asemblea Magna, Dr. Pio Valenzuela is chosen to see Rizal in Dapitan.Philippinessource
  • 1898April 21 – More suspects were arrested by the Spanish authorities: Doroteo Jose; Cecilio Velarde, the parish priest of Quiapo; Felix Roxas; Padre Consunji; and many more.Philippinessource
  • 1898May 15 – Andres Bonifacio and a few katipuneros meet with the captain of the Japanese cruiser, Kongo, visiting Manila, and the Japanese consul in Manila in a room above the Japanese bazaar on Plaza Moraga, to discuss the possible purchase of Japanese arms and to request Japanese arms and to request Japan's aid to their cause. A Christian Japanese, Jose Moritario Tagawa, married to a Filipina from Bocaue, Bulacan and a friend of Dr. Pio Valenzuela, acts as interpreter.Philippinessource
  • 1898September 20 – Josefa Llanes Escoda, Founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines (d. 1945)Philippinessource
  • 1898April 8 – León Kilat, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1873)Philippinessource
  • 1899May 19 – The U.S. Army captures Tawi-Tawi, the southernmost island in the Philippines.Philippinessource
  • 1899October 23 – The Philippine Independent Church is formed at a conference in Paniqui, to separate from the Roman Catholic Church.Philippinessource
  • 1899May 11 – The country adopts PHT as its standard time at exactly 12:00 a.m., prior to the adoption, each location in the country observed its own solar mean time.Philippinessource

20th century

234 entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1900June 21 – Military governor Gen. MacArthur issues a proclamation providing amnesty to those who fought against the United States since the previous year, giving a 90-day period for them to swear an allegiance to the colonial government.Philippinessource
  • 1901September – The first Filipino members of the second Philippine Commission are appointedPhilippinessource
  • 1914September 1 – The province of Cotabato is founded.Philippinessource
  • 1936August 1-16 – The Philippines competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 28 competitors, all men, take part in 20 events in 6 sports.Philippinessource
  • 1942May 2 – José Abad Santos, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1886)Philippinessource
  • 1945February 3–March 3 – Battle of Manila United States forces enter the outskirts of Manila to capture it from the Japanese Imperial Army, starting the battle.Philippinessource
  • 1947June 20 – Dagupan becomes a city in the province of Pangasinan through Republic Act 170 and ratified on the same day.Philippinessource
  • 1951March 6 – Fort Santiago is declared a National Shrine.Philippinessource
  • 1953October 23 – The Philippines' DZAQ-TV 3 of Alto Broadcasting System (now ABS-CBN) makes its initial telecast, becoming Asia's first commercial television broadcaster.Philippinessource
  • 1962April 9 – Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor)Philippinessource
  • 1966July 5 – A moderate phreatomagmatic eruption at Mt. Tabaro results in tephra fallout and airborne projectiles, impacting the volcano island.Philippinessource
  • 1968October 12–27 – The Philippines participates in the 1968 Summer Olympics with 49 competitors in ten sports.Philippinessource
  • 1970March 3 – A People's March is organized by the Movement for a Democratic Philippines, and the group marches from Welcome Rotonda in Quezon City to Post Office Building in Plaza Lawton, Manila.Philippinessource
  • 1972March 12 – the country's first rocket is launched in Caballo Island, Corregidor Group.Philippinessource
  • 1975November 7 – President Ferdinand Marcos issues Presidential Decree 824 creating the Metropolitan Manila Commission (MMC). It integrates the city of Manila and adjacent Quezon City with the cities of Pasay and Caloocan and municipalities of Makati, Mandaluyong, San Juan, Las Piñas, Malabon, Navotas, Pasig, Pateros, Parañaque, Marikina, Muntinlupa, and Taguig from the province of Rizal and the municipality of Valenzuela from the province of Bulacan to form Metropolitan Manila.Philippinessource
  • 1977November 15 – A typhoon kills about 80 persons in northern Philippines. Among the dead are at least 40 killed after a fire at the tourist hotel in Manila a day earlier, caused by a candle being lit during a power failure.Philippinessource
  • 1979July 30 – Eat Bulaga!, the longest running noon-time variety show in the Philippines, premiered on RPN. It was also aired on ABS-CBN from 1989 to 1995, GMA Network from 1995 to 2023 and the TV5 since 2023.Philippinessource
  • 1982March 30 – At least 38 deaths resulted when Typhoon Nelson tears through the central and southern areas of the country.Philippinessource
  • 1984September 1 – Typhoon Nitang strikes the Philippines. It kills 1,492 people and 1,856 more are injured. Roughly 1.6 million people are affected in the country. A total of 108,219 homes are destroyed and 142,653 more are damaged. However, President Ferdinand Marcos declared a state of calamity only after Nitang's onslaught.Philippinessource
  • 1986March 5 – President Aquino frees four suspected communist leaders, including Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison and alleged NPA founder Bernabe Buscayno, eventually releasing all political prisoners of the Marcos administration.Philippinessource
  • 1988May 4 – Josefa Edralin Marcos, mother of former Pres. Ferdinand Marcos, dies in Manila, aged 95. Her son's request to return to the Philippines for her funeral would be later denied twice.Philippinessource
  • 1989October 1–13 – Typhoons Angela (Rubing), Dan (Saling), and Elsie (Tasing) impact the country in two weeks.Philippinessource
  • 1992Early March – The country begins to experience one of the worst post-war power crises, where blackouts, caused by power shortages, affects Metro Manila and southern Luzon and worsens by end of May; with the capital experiencing almost 60 blackouts since March 1.Philippinessource
  • 1994July – Former members of the MNLF's Bangsa Moro Army kidnap city sports official So Kim Cheng in Davao City; despite closed negotiations, captors did not release the victim and later killed him instead after they learned of a group of operatives conducting own rescue attempt.Philippinessource
  • 1996December 3 – A fire, considered the largest in Lipa, Batangas, hits an entire purok, caused by an explosion in a public market and resulting to massive damages.Philippinessource

21st century

12 entries, 2000 CE to 2012 CE

  • 2000March 5 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Pedro Calungsod, a Visayan killed in Guam in 1672.Philippinessource
  • 2000May 25 – Philippine peso closes to ₱43.40 per US dollar, the lowest since October 1998.Philippinessource
  • 2000August 6 – The 2000 ABC-PBA All-Star Game is the All-Star game was held on August 6, 2000, at the Philsports Arena in Pasig.Philippinessource
  • 2000October 20 – A massive power outage affects most parts of Luzon including Metro Manila, caused by system failures in the transmission lines of the National Power Corporation in Pangasinan and Bulacan; electricity was fully restored 16 hours later.Philippinessource
  • 2000February 23–March 7 – Mayon volcano in Albay erupts, with the most violent occurred, February 28 – March 1; its status is raised to the highest, Alert Level 5, on February 24 due to its hazardous explosions with pyroclastic and lahar flows that affected parts of the province, with several thousands evacuated even outside identified danger zones.Philippinessource
  • 2002February 26 – Former President Joseph Estrada admits signing the ₱500 million Jose Velarde bank account in Equitable-PCI Bank.Philippinessource
  • 2003May 26 – The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 is passed into law. The Philippines becomes one of the first Asian nations to pass anti-trafficking legislation.Philippinessource
  • 2008January – Eldrew Yulo, gymnastPhilippinessource
  • 2009February 5 – Carren Eistrup, singer and entertainerPhilippinessource
  • 2010March 24 – Elia Ilano, child actressPhilippinessource
  • 2012October 21 – Pedro Calungsod is canonized in the Vatican City. He is the second Filipino saint.Philippinessource
  • 2012February 1 – Athena Calica, wushu practitioner, daughter of 2001 Southeast Asian Games winner Jerome Calica and contestant in It's Showtime's Mini Miss UPhilippinessource