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Apr 29, 1542
the philippines
the philippines was claimed by Ruy Lopez de Villalobos of spain. They called it the philippines after king philip II of spain. the philippines were now a part of the spanish empire -
the start of the battle of Manila Bay
an American warship Maine was blown up in Havana harbour -
treaty of Paris
the U.S. and spain sign a treaty that ends the Spanish and american war. this treaty also sells the philippines to america from spain for 20 million dollars. Emilio Aguinaldo declaired the philippines independance and they fought the U.S. with guerrilla warfare. -
U.S. captures Aguinaldo
general funston plotted for the capture of Aguinaldo and the cought him by tricking him, his men said they weresent by Lacuna so they did not suspect anything. the then captured Aguinaldo -
westernization of philippines
a Pensionado program was devoloped and it allowed filipinos to study in the U.S. also disputes of land boundries with the church were settled -
the end of the philippine revolution
General Simion Ola surrendered to Colonel Harry Bandoltz in Guinobatan Albay. Other revolutionaries soon followed. -
philippines become commonwealth
the philippines becomes a commonwealth but was interrupted when the Japanese occupied the Philippines in January 2, 1942 -
japan invades philippines
the japaniese invade the philipines with intentions of occuping the philippines -
end of world war II
world war II was put to end -
Joseph Estrada
Joseph Estrada was a movie star that got elected to run the philippines. -
Joseph Estrada steps down
Joseph Estrada steped dow from office because of the publics outrage over him being suspected of curroption