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Magellan claimed the islands he saw for Spain and named them Islas de San Lázaro. He established friendly relations with some of the local leaders especially with Rajah Humabon and converted some of them to Roman Catholicism. In the Philippines, they explored many islands including the island of Mactan.
Before 900 – 1589 Manila, parts of Central Luzon, Calabarzon and Bicol: Ma-i: Before 971 – c. 1339 Mindoro Island, parts of Southern Luzon: Sanmalan: Before 982 – 1500s Zamboanga: Butuan: Before 989 – 1521 Butuan, parts of Northern Mindanao and Caraga: Caboloan: Before 1225 – 1572 San Carlos City, Pangasinan Sandao: Before 1225 – c ...
The prehistory of the Philippines covers the events prior to the written history of what is now the Philippines.The current demarcation between this period and the early history of the Philippines is April 21, 900, which is the equivalent on the Proleptic Gregorian calendar for the date indicated on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription—the earliest known surviving written record to come from ...
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain in 1821.
The present name of the Philippines was bestowed by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos [1] [2] or one of his captains Bernardo de la Torre [3] [4] in 1543, during an expedition intended to establish greater Spanish control at the western end of the division of the world established between Spain and Portugal by the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza.
The plaque in Málaga, Spain, Villalobos's home town, commemorating his naming of the Philippines.. Villalobos was commissioned in 1541 by Antonio de Mendoza, the viceroy of New Spain and first colonial administrator in the New World, to send an expedition to the Philippines, then known to the Spanish as the "Islands of the West" (Islas del Poniente).
Before the arrival of Spanish colonial powers the Philippines did not actually exist. Southeast Asia is classified as part of the Indosphere [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the Sinosphere . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The archipelago has direct contact with China during Song dynasty (960-1279) [ 7 ] and has been a part of the Srivijaya and Majapahit empires.
The expedition discovered the Mariana Islands and the Philippines and claimed them for Spain. Although Magellan was killed by natives commanded by Lapulapu during the battle of Mactan in the Philippines, one of his ships, the Victoria , made it back to Spain by continuing westward.