Featured Images: Memories of Old Manila

loading...
FEATURED DOCUMENT
Printed in 1593, Doctrina Christiana is acknowledged to be the first book published in the Philippines. Originally in Chinese, a new version was released just a few months later using the ancient Tagalog script known as baybayin. The book was widely used in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by missionaries from different religious orders as a handbook to spread Christianity, particularly in the remote areas of the country. read more...
Browse Our Collections
The Complete Jose Rizal 100 Nobelang Tagalog Image Database
Philippine Revolutionary Virtual Blair & Robertson 100 Pinoy Komiks
Philippine Legal Database Premio Zobel
Philippine Labor Studies Philippine Women's Studies Master Union Bibliography of the Philippines
Virtual Katipunan Agricultural Studies Collection Philippine Legal Database

  1. 1963 - The summit conference of heads of state of Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia on the proposed Confederation of Malaysia is held.
  2. 1948- Pres. Elpidio Quirino signs Proclamation No. 86 extending the period fixed in the amnesty proclamation for the surrender of the leader and members of the Hukbalahap and the Pambansang Kaisahan Magbubukid (PKM). An earlier proclamation was issued on 21 June 1948.
  3. 1903 - The Hongkong Committee is officially declared dissolved after its members begin to return to the Philippines.
  4. 1901 - Gen. Miguel Malvar rallies the people to continue the war against the Americans.
  5. 1899 - Los Baños, Laguna is occupied by U.S. troops.
    American forces seize Pres. Emilio Aguinaldo's telegraph line, "but on his vigorous protest” writes J.F. Bass in Harper's Weekly "and an implied threat that continued action of this kind would be likely to turn the Filipino population against us, (we) gave up his telegraph line, and did what we ought to have done from the first-built one of our own."
    - Pres. Emilio Aguinaldo issues a decree providing that all department secretaries should have the rank of Lieutenant General of the National Army.
  6. 1898 - Spanish forces entrenched around the city of Manila conduct night attacks on U.S. forces.
    Brig.-Gen. Arthur MacArthur arrives in Manila and is assigned to command the Second Brigade of the First Division of the U.S. Army.
  7. 1896 - Dr. Jose Rizal leaves Dapitan with Josephine Bracken, his sister Narcisa, a niece, and three nephews for Manila thus ending his exile of four years and thirteen days.
  8. 1889 - The Civil Code of Spain is introduced in the Philippines.
  9. 1887 - The cornerstone of the Tutuban Railroad Station in Manila is laid by Gov. Emilio Terrero.