Decline of the Spanish Rule

Decline of the Spanish Rule

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1762
    The Spanish rule on the Philippines was interrupted due to the involvement of the Spanish with the seven years war.

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1763
      The Spanish rule was restored because of the Treaty of Paris.

1764
       The British left the country.




1781
      Governor General Jose y Basco y Vargas established the Economic Society of the Friends of the country.
     

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1869
      The Suez Canal opened and caused to cut the travel time to Spain. This prompted the Rise of the Ilustrados, an  enlightened Filipino upperclass.










  

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Jose Rizal
          The most celebrated intellectual and radical ilustado of the era. He is the author of the novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.

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1896
      The Philippine Revolution began. Rizal was implicated in the outbreak of the revolution and was executed for Treason.
     
       The Katipunan in Cavite split into two groups: Magdiwang, led by Mariano Alvarez (right), and Magdalo, led by Emilio Aguinaldo (left).












1898
      The USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana Harbor on May 19,1898. Emilio Aguinaldo returned in the Philippines because was asked by the U.S. after Commodore George Dewey defeated the Spanish squadron.







                                                                                                                                                                June 12, 1898
       Aguinaldo declared Independence of the Philippines in Kawit, Cavite establishing the First Philippine Republic under Asia's First Democratic Constitution.










   

 Felipe Agoncillo
             The Philippine representative for the
 Filipino-American War.

             The Philippines was handed to the US by the Spanish in exchange for US$20,000,000.00 which US characterized as "...a gift from the gods.".

1899-1913
      The Philippine Republic rebelled against US occupation, resulting in the Philippine-American War.