1.

Ship Building

Among the most lucrative and long-lived of Spanish colonial commercial

activities were the so-called "Manila galleon trade" between the Philippines and Mexico.
Ships sailed across the Pacific annually, exchanging Mexican silver for Chinese
manufactured goods obtained at Manila. The trade lasted from 1572 to 1814 and brought
fabled Asian luxuries directly into the Spanish empire. At first, ships built in Spain cost
less, and the Spaniards continued to use Atlantic ships as well as many from Asian yards,
principally in Cochin and India, although the latter sources were forbidden after 1679.
Several shipyards were built in the Philippines as the decades progressed. The advantages
were obvious: the dependence of the colony on trade and the availability of excellent
hardwood timber, skilled Chinese or Spanish shipwrights, and inexpensive indigenous
labor. Known for their high quality and durability, the vessels were often lauded by
contemporaries. The Augustinian chronicler Casimiro Diaz called them "the best that can
be found in the universe. " They were also applauded for their reasonable price. I Yet
despite the comparative advantages that underlay the decision to construct them in the
Philippines, they also proved quite problematic and surprisingly expensive, once the
practice had been undertaken for.

2. Surnames for Filipinos

Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa was a Spanish army officer who served as the Governor-
General of the Philippines from July 16, 1844 to December 26, 1849. From the days of
the Spanish conquest, some Filipinos had received Spanish surnames. Most people,
however, had no surnames, which caused confusion. On Wednesday, November 21,
1849, Clavería issued a decree sending long lists of Spanish and local surnames to the
chiefs of the provinces. These were sent out to the different towns, and given to the locals
who had no surnames. In many towns, all the names for people in that town began with
the same letter of the alphabet.[2] For instance, surnames starting with "A" applies for
those who lived in Alimodian while those starting "M" apply for those who lived in
Miagao.

3. Quarantine Station

In 1850s the Spanish government established the Lazareto de Mariveles in Bataan as a

way of checking and sanitizing passengers and cargoes of foreign ships from contagious
diseases before they could enter Manila. The Americans continued this practice in 1902
by establishing quarantine services in ports of entry.

4. Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church)

Independiente, also called Aglipayan Church, independent church organized in 1902 after
the Philippine revolution of 1896–98 as a protest against the Spanish clergy’s control of
 the Roman Catholic Church. Cofounders of the church were Isabelo de los Reyes y
Florentino, author, labor leader, and senator, who was imprisoned during the revolution
for his criticism of Spanish clergy and government officials in the Philippines, and
Gregorio Aglipay y Labayán, a Philippine Roman Catholic priest who was
excommunicated in 1899 for his activities on behalf of the revolution. Aglipay accepted
de los Reyes’ request that he serves as supreme bishop of the new church in 1903, a
position he held until his death in 1940.

The church continued to follow Roman Catholic forms of worship, but for many years’
doctrine was strongly influenced by Unitarianism. A schism developed in 1946, and a
unitarian faction left the church. Under Isabelo de los Reyes, Jr., elected bishop in 1946,
the church adopted in 1947 a new declaration of faith and articles of religion that were
Trinitarian. The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States consecrated three
bishops of the Philippine Independent Church in 1948, and the two churches entered into
a close association. In 1961 the church was accepted into full communion with the
Church of England and the Old Catholic churches.

In the late 20th century membership was 1,400,000.

5. First court case of libel

In October 30, 1908 El Renacimiento published in its editorial “Aves de Rapina” (Birds
of Prey) about a man who preyed on his enemy the way an eagle, vulture, owl and a
vampire do. American Secretary of the Interior Dean C. Worcester felt alluded in the
article and sued the paper’s editor and publisher Teodoro M. Kalaw and Martin Ocampo.
Worcester won the case and the newspaper was closed.

Source: https://www.wattpad.com/18776625-100-significant-events-in-philippine-history
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/084387149500700208?journalCode=ijha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narciso_Claver%C3%ADa_y_Zald%C3%BAa
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Philippine-Independent-Church