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President of the Philippines

head of state and head of government of the Philippines

27 dated entries naming President of the Philippines, drawn from 23 separate years between 1869 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Philippine President, President of the Republic of the Philippines in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1869March 22 – Emilio Aguinaldo, 1st President of the Philippines (died 1964)source
  • 1878August 19 – Manuel L. Quezon, 2nd President of the Philippines (died 1944)source
  • 1878September 9 – Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (died 1961)source

20th century

  • 1910September 28 – Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (died 1997)source
  • 1917September 11 – Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines (died 1989)source
  • 1933January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (died 2009)source
  • 1935September 16 – Senate president Manuel L. Quezon is elected president in the country's first national election.source
  • 1935September 17 – Manuel L. Quezon is elected 2nd President of the Philippines.source
  • 1937April 19 – Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor and politician, 13th President of the Philippinessource
  • 1945March 28 – Rodrigo Duterte, 16th President of the Philippinessource
  • 1946July 4 – After more than 48 years of American dominance, the Philippines attains full independence as the 3rd Republic; Manuel A. Roxas is 5th President of the Philippines. It marks the end of nearly 400 years of colonial era when the Viceroyalty of New Spain took control since April 27, 1565.source
  • 1953December 30 – Ramon Magsaysay becomes the 7th President of the Philippines.source
  • 1957September 13 – Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippinessource
  • 1957November 14 – Carlos P. Garcia is elected president in the presidential elections.source
  • 1960February 8 – Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines (died 2021)source
  • 1964February 6 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and 1st President of the Philippines (born 1869)source
  • 1965November 9 – Ferdinand Marcos is elected president during the presidential elections.source
  • 1966January 24 – President Ferdinand Marcos, in his emergency address to the country, says, "We are in crisis!"source
  • 1969November 11 – In the nationwide general elections held, incumbents Pres. Marcos and Vice Pres. Lopez are reelected in their respective positions, with the former as the first (and the last in electoral history) to win for a second full term as president in the presidential elections and the latter elected to a third full term as Vice President of the Philippines. The administration party, the Nacionalista Party, won 6 out of 8 seats in the Philippine Senate and 88 out of 110 seats in the House of Representatives.source
  • 1972September 23 – Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos announces on national television the issuance of Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.source
  • 1984November 14 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.source
  • 1989September 28 – Ferdinand Marcos, 72, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman, President of the Philippines, cardiac arrest.source
  • 1989December 1 – A military coup attempt begins in the Philippines against the government of Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino. It is crushed by United States intervention ending by December 9.source

21st century

  • 2009August 1 – Former President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino dies at the age of 76 of cardiopulmonary arrest after complications of colon cancer. A memorial service and funeral is scheduled for August 5. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)source
  • 2016May 9 – Rodrigo Duterte is elected the President of the Philippines.source
  • 2022May 9 – 2022 Philippine presidential election: Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte are elected the 17th President and 15th Vice President of the Philippines in a landslide victory.source
  • 2025March 11 – The former President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, is arrested in the Philippines after being served an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.source

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