The History of The Philippines Under The Spanish Empire (1521 - 1899) 

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" Yes. I regret to a large extent revolting against Spain and, that's why, when the funerals for the king Alfonso [XIII] of Spain were celebrated in Manila, I showed up in the cathedral to the surprise of the spaniards. They asked me why had I come to the funeral of the king against who I rebelled... I told them that he continues to be my king because under the spanish rule we were always spanish subjects or citizens, but now, under the USA, we are just a consumer market for their exports, when not pariah, because they never made us citizens of any state in the USA... And the spanish opened the way for me and treated me like a brother in that significant day [the funeral?]" Emilio Aguinaldo 1958

A story that deserves to be remembered from the end of the Spanish period in the Philippines 🇵🇭 is that of the so-called "The Last of the Philippines." These were a group of Spanish soldiers who were besieged in the church of the town of Baler, on the Philippine island of Luzon between July 1898 and June 1899, and who did not know that in December 1898, Spain 🇪🇸 and the United States 🇺🇸 had signed the Treaty of Paris, in which sovereignty over the Philippines was ceded to the United States. Therefore, while the Spanish soldiers were being repatriated to Spain, they continued fighting even though the war between the Philippines and Spain had already ended. Finally, while leafing through the besieged newspapers left in the church, they discovered a piece of news that could not have been invented by the Filipinos, which finally convinced them that Spain no longer held sovereignty over the Philippines and that there was no point in continuing to resist in the church. On June 2, 1899, Baler's Spanish detachment surrendered.

The Philippines was a Spanish colony longer than the USA has been independent! Thats insane! 378 years!

Desde 2002, cada 30 de junio se celebra el día de la amistad Hispanofilipina, fecha en que Emilio Aguinaldo, presidente de la Primera República Filipina, emitió una orden por la cual se decretaba que los últimos soldados españoles que se habían atrincherado en la iglesia del pueblo de Baler durante casi un año fueran tratados no como enemigos, sino como amigos, y que recibieran la asistencia necesaria para su retorno a España. El senador filipino Edgardo Angara, principal promotor del Día de la Amistad, aquel 30 de junio fue “un día glorioso para ambos países, porque el sitio de Baler produjo héroes y victoria para ambas partes”. Hoy, este episodio es el símbolo de la gran amistad entre España y Filipinas.

The Philippines was born as a Spanish province, then it was independent by the United States to become its colony and finally ended up being a Japanese colony due to its colonization of the archipelago.

Ooh I’ve been waiting patiently for another video

I've been subscribed to the channel for a few years now and really appreciate you guys making several historical videos of my country. Thank you.

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁💯

13:29 Wrong. It should be "The Americans decided to act like they were the ones who defeated Spain even though the Filipino revolutionaries did MOST of the damage"

The first Philippine republic is Asia's first constitutional republic. The Philippine revolutionary already controlled the majority of the archipelago before the deceitful American imperialist arrived, promising us full independence provided we fought the Spanish alongside them. You neglected to disclose that portion. So that's kind of disappointing.

333 years of Spanish rule ended and the Philippines will always be welcome as a brother of the Latin American countries. ❤ Tierra adorada, hija del sol del oriente.

Knowledgia good job bro

14 yrs as a student..i never learned so much about Philippine History as this 2-part video has provided. Thanks for making quality content like this. More power to your channel. Maybe you can also make a video about the Philippines being a land rich in gold a long time ago just in case you happen to have read it somewhere in your research.

One thing not being mentioned is during the Spanish becoming a Republic overthrowing the control of monarchy in Spain. The Republic of Spain sent a governor who made a lots of reform and allow the indigenous to allow equal status and respect their culture. This was the first and only governor of Spain send that does not used violence rather used a dialogue to cooperate with the Locals. However the republic of Spain short lived and the Governor was replaced by the Spain who is loyal to the Spanish monarchy. The fact that after he takes the place of as the Governor General of the Philippines. All of the reforms being done we're all abolished. Rather than to dialogue the new governor used violence. Which led to the execution of 3 Catholic Filipino Priest who was being blamed for the Cavite Mutiny. The plan of the Filipino soldiers to overthrow the Spanish Government in the Philippines. The execution of the three priest fueled the desire of Filipinos for independence rather than equal rights. Filipinos doesn't see themselves as different from Spain. But it was the fault of the people who wrongly govern the Philippines. Which led them to believe that this Spanish doesn't really considered them as human being itself.

Super informative video about modern history of Phillipines....thanks

Thank You. ❤

The Philippine American war was not brief according to what I have read. It is rarely mentioned as a war at all in the U S .

Knowledgia's cover of the Spanish Occupation of my country is well done, I hope they'll cover the American war and occupation tho, as the America really doesn't want to make it mainstream

very interesting video, I have never seen this topic covered much other than the start of colonisation and the American conquest

I wish this video explained how Maguindanao and Sulu weren't really part of the Philippines during Spanish empire and were just annexed by USA. The map in the video showed it though but not explained. It is important to explain it because it caused more than 100 years of Moro rebellion and fight for independence that only was settled during the Duterte government with the establishment of Bangsamoro region.

I love the Philippines ❤✝

I have gained a significant amount of knowledge about Philippine history from this channel in a relatively short period of time, compared to the years I spent studying it in school.

Good video.

If anything José Rizal wasn't a leader, but a idealistic template for the revolution.

Great documentary

Great! I'm surprised that the video started precolonial to the contemporary era of the Philippines, since other videos about Philippine history weren't complete however, this video is like made by a Filipino historian!

Spanish should have maintained as one of the official national languages in the Philippines because it would have solved simmering ethnolinguistic rivalries between Tagalogs and the Visayans. The Americans intentionally removed Spanish from the primary and secondary public school curricula because they wanted to transform Filipinos into subservient Brown Americans.

Interesting!

Excellent science

Watching from Brampton, Ontario, Canada ❤❤❤❤❤

I like the way you labeled ilocos region as samtoy also meaning sao mi ditoy or "our language here"

Interesting

I want to learn more about the early stages of this. Also, how did ming gain control of the area near manila near the beginning?

Y’all should check out that one movie the last men in the Philippines it’s pretty good

Will there be a part 3-4? Up to modern day?

im happy to have watched many history videos especially Shogun in Disney to see well human nature and capabilities.

Today spain & Philippines 🇪🇦❤️🇵🇭✝️⛪💪 viva España

philippine history in a nutshell, somehow, i felt that thhe story came short. atleast you should ended it in the establishment of the commonwealth republic. but overall nice job🎉🎉..

Philippines is the Mexico of Asia 😅 I wonder why Philippine didn't become fully Spanish in speaking Spanish and other Spanish traditions 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️. More love and support from Poland to the Philippines we're both Catholics ✝️✝️🇵🇱🇵🇭🙏🏻🙏🏻💚

Philippines is one of my favourite respective nations ever and this is a fascinating history of the colonisation of the Spanish army ended in the year 1899 by the American army,good friends!!!LONG LIVE,PHILIPPINES!!!🇵🇭

Really interesting video ! We don't know much about this Spanish colonie

On the night of his execution, on December 30, 1896, Rizal proclaimed the Philippines "the Pearl of the Oriental Seas". His death is annually commemorated on December 30. Rizal's execution gave impetus to the revolution.

Charles (Carlos) V from Germany, but I from Spain. In this case as you are talking about Spain i think you should call him Charles (Carlos) the first.

Took a yr to get across the pacific! Woww

Even today there is a recruiting office in Manila and probably others for military service in the United States. Many Pilipinos are members of the service with all the ranks and positions shared. They can be anything they want there without giving up their citizenship to the Phillipines. They are the only country that has those rights. They are a separate country but as close to family members as two countries can ever be. They took care of ours in WW-2 and even though independent now we’ve stayed close. We shall never forget them if they ever need us.

It's interesting to think how things would have been different if Spain had never arrived

1:50 , 6:05 and 6:30 - Correction: Conquest and viceregal government. You also forgot the fusion of Spanish and Filipino cultures.

Philippines 🇵🇭 is probably my favorite country on earth. I hope one day they figure out their political issues. Is being part of the ASEAN a good thing to help work towards this? What are some facts of this being a good or bad thing?

This still lacks some details. Manila controlled trade in the archipelago and they've basically woven together a trading colony before Spanish contact. This became the blueprint for the Spanish colony, hence why Manila got chosen as the colonial capital, it wasn't a random choice.

proud bangsamoro muslim in philippines, the unconquered nation in south.

Spain saved Philippines from Islam

What they didn't tell anyone is that the land was rich in gold, people were using and adorned with gold stuffs.

Philippines is the only Spanish colony which do not have Spanish as its first or official language. Though many loan Spanish words are used, as well as English.

El primer barco español que llegó a las islas que después se llamaría Filipinas, fue la expedición de Magallanes, un saludo desde Perú 🇵🇪

what about egypt?

Make a part 2.. Philippines under American occupation

Did you know that Philippines were influenced by Spain, like language a lot of Filipino have Spanish, and like culture too some Spanish cultures are also Philippines culture ❤

*Philippines exists* Spain, USA, Japan: "It's free real estate!"

The war between the US and Philippines independent movement wasn't short. It was bloody and cruel and the Philippines won.

Did you know that Philippines have over 700,000 islands!❤

It would be cool if Spanish was more dominant than english English vowels have more pronunciation than Spanish

VERY STRANGE PERIOD IN PAST HISTORY, I AM HAPPY PHILIPPINES STAND ON IT OWN NOW.

misleading to have MacArthur in the Philippines in 1899. he was there until the 30s and was mostly active there in the 40s.

Challenges are a sign giant inside you is waking up.

I still don't get why The Philippines hasn't change it's country name based on their native language for example Burma is now called Myanmar

Thanks to Americans who spread protestantism that changed a supertitious approach to innovative thinking . . .

Cory Administration actually REMOVED the Spanish lesson in Filipino schools.

Use correct historical maps from Spain itself? So it shows the true territorial extent recognized by the international community under Spanish rule.

During the Spanish period, the Philippines sold agricultural products, now women are sold to foreigners

A 'brief' war with the US? The Philippine-American War, which took nearly 200,000 lives, lasted nearly as long as WWII did for the Americans against Japan and Germany; would we call WWII a brief war?

The British only controlled a small port area on Cavite, nowhere near the extent of the map shown.

The Philippines will always be Spanish, despite all the destruction the Tagalogs have caused.

Masbate Island the hideout of spanish before...a lot of cave there... My Grandfather died last world war ...

I never heard of an “overpopulation” problem in Spain during the Empire. I heard the opposite

at 14:00, US be like "we didn't defeat Spain for ur sake. now, serve ur new master!"

PHILIPPINES MENTIONED OOOORAHHHHHH 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

Could you please cover the Philippines under American rule? So many interesting things happened during that era: Baseball and electricity were introduced to the Philippines. Some alphabets were created by American colonials for Filipino tribal groups who had none. America's fight against various Filipino insurgents was a lot like "Game of Thrones" where insurgent factions betrayed and sabatoged one another because they cared more about consolidating power for themselves than driving out the Americans. WWII hero, Douglass MacArthur grew up in the Philippines while his father was the governor who modernized the region. The last US Calvary battle to be fought on horseback was in the Philippines during WWII. The movement for US statehood was more popular than desiring independence but lost because American politicians refused to admit the Philippines to the union due to racism.

Hindi pa pinapanganak si ROXAS niyan pero bakit ROXAS na naka LABEL? It should be CAPIZ , the old name of Roxas City.

Where are the Prayle's?😮

The Queen of the South will Rise🤗The Land of Ophir🤫Where King Solomon got its Gold🤗Marco Polo, Columbus, Magellan, and Bush knew🤗

damn im a filipino i really hope that were still americans , now we are a poor country🤦‍♂️

Did you know that Philippines were colonized by Spain over 300 years!❤

The truth will WIN...

You skipped the period of the Napoleonic Wars when France invaded Spain (the Peninsular War) and devastated the country! Who was actually in control of the Philippines? Did loyal Spanish colonials rule it for Spain, which was in chaos?

Please work on your pronunciation of the Filipino words. Manila is the one you got it right.

„Like the French who fought in the independence war in the US brought back new ideas“? Where do you think the Americans got their ideas from? 😂. Territory of the US until 1946? I think there was a brief hiatus, just before….

Igorots were never conquered by the Spanish. Which is why we kept our culture and traditions.

2:48 absolutely false! The criteria to immigrate to the territories of New Spain and the Philippines were very strict, and forbid the the traveling to criminals, low qualified workers, and of course, people from other credos (Jews, Protestants, calvinists, etc.). The Crown didn’t want to fight the problems it already faced in the mainland. Get your facts right. There were exceptions of course but it was not the rule, like in Britain in the XIX Century for certain territories: Australia.

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US Occupation next! :)

Ooh coincidence that the Philippines and Indonesia has a name as East Indies 😊😊

First?

Filipinos were overthrown by 6 ships and 400 Europeans. Ouch 🤕.

MUSLIMS WERE NOT PIRATES..THEY WERE THE RIGHTFUL OWNER OF THIS ARCHIPELOGO. THE MIXICANS, SPANIARDS WERE THE TRUE PIRATES.

Ha ha ha ha ha. You put part of Sabah under Sulu. Sulu claims that Sabah was given by the Brunei Sultanate in assisting Brunei's civil war. What undisputable evidence can you show me Brunei gave Sabah to Sulu? This is to rebuke the existence of the 29/12/1877 agreement (consisting of 4 agreements) signed by the Brunei Sultanate that grants the whole of North Borneo to the British North Borneo Company (BNBC). These agreements exist and are kept at the National Archives in London.

Hundreds of years of Spanish rule yet no one speaks Spanish today, what does that tell you?!

British pirates!!

Spain NEVER had colonies. It was Viceroys, as in an extension of the Spanish lands. To claim it did equal to the British is a lie. Spain never exploited its lands, you are lying. Spain invested in those lands it had which were equal parts of Spain, NEVER colonies.

Europe and and america always Invasion all over the world 😢😢😢 And they still continue their Invasion in new trendb😢😢😢😢