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Manila's border was expanded to include Santa Ana de Sapa. [27] The Manila Grand Opera House opened in Santa Cruz. 1903 Population: 219,928 city; 330,345 metro. [28] Trozo Fire in Manila (May 1903) 1905 The Manila Elks Club was established. Félix Roxas became mayor. 1908 The University of the Philippines Manila was founded. [29]
15.4 1930s. 15.5 1940s. 15.6 1950s. 15.7 1960s. 15.8 1970s. ... This is a timeline of Philippine history, ... Manila is connected through telegraphic cable with ...
The earliest recorded History of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, dates back to the year 900 AD, as documented in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription.By the thirteenth century, the city consisted of a fortified settlement and trading quarter near the mouth of the Pasig River, which bisects the city into the north and south.
The Capitol Theater was an Art deco theater in Manila, Philippines. It was built during the 1930s along Escolta Street , part of the city's primary commercial district, together with the Lyric Theater.
A few steps away from the Cahayon Ancestral House is the Leiva-Syquia Ancestral House built also in the 1930s. The two-level house of the Syquia family, according to oral history, used to house the clinic of Dr. Pio Valenzuela while on his stay at Santa Ana, Manila.
English: Osaka Boeki Wholesale Workers, Manila, Philippines (1930s) - Workers at Osaka Boeki Kaisha's wholesale section in Osaka Bazar in what is believed to be Manila in the 1930s. (Provided by the Matsui family)
Manila City Hall Clock Tower Manila City Hall at night. The clock tower, also designed by Antonio Toledo which was completed during the 1930s is the largest clock tower in the Philippines, reaching close to 100 feet (30 m) in elevation. [6] It stands out during nighttime when the whole of the tower lights up.
The movement was born out of frustrations with corruption and inequality. Benigno Ramos described these sentiments in a December 1930 editorial: "In Manila we see our so-called leaders growing fat and rich on money amassed from taxing the poor. They have fine automobiles and fine homes for themselves, but for us they have only fine and empty words.