HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINE FlAG

GROUP 6

Researcher:

Vincent Carolino

Eugene Habal Dugenia

Clarence Ladino

Lexi Boncato Nonesa

Jeremi Capangpangan

Marineil Jg Evangelista

MARICON ZAMPAGA CASEM

BS FOOD TECHNOLOGY

SUBJECT: READINGS IN THE PHILIPPINE HISTORY

Instructor : Ma'am Sheema Valdez

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CLARENCE LADINO

Everybody welcome to the history of the PHILIPPINE FLAG

TODAY WE'RE GONNA BE TAKING A LOOK AT THE FLAG OF THE PHILIPPINES.

NOW THE PHILIPPINES HAVE BEEN POPULATED FOR A LONG TIME BUT AS WE KNOW THE FLAGS ARE SOMETHING QUITE
RECENT IN THE LARGE PICTURE OF HISTORY IN ANCIENT TIMES NATIVE POPULATION INHABITED THE PHILIPPINES BUT
THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY FLAG/.

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MARINEIL EVANGELISTA

FLAG THE CLOSEST THING WE CAN FIND TO A FLAG WOULD BE SYMBOLS THROUGH WHICH THEY WERE DEPICTED BY
HISTORIANS LIKE THIS ANCIENT PAINTING OR IVORY SEAL WHICH SEEMS TO CONTAIN SOME SYMBOLS DATING BACK TO
AROUND 1000 AND TO FOUND IN BUTUAN BUT ALL OF THIS CHANGED IN 1521 WHEN PORTUGUESE EXPLORER MAGELLAN
ARRIVED IN THE PHILIPPINES AND CLAIMED THE ISLANDS FOR SPAIN SO TECHNICALLY THE FIRST OFFICIAL FLAG OF THE
PHILIPPINES WOULD BE THE SPANISH COLONIAL FLAG WHICH EVOLVED A LITTLE THROUGHOUT TIME..

THERE WAS ALSO A BRITISH FLAG FLYING OVER THE PHILIPPINES .

THE FLAG OF THE EAST INDIA TRADING COMPANY WHICH FLEW DURING THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF MANILA FROM
1762 TO 1764 .HOWEVER DESPITE SPANISH COLONIALISM THERE WAS STILL A NATIVES IN CONTROL OF SOME REGIONS AT
LEAST FOR SOME PERIODS OF TIME AND THERE WERE ALSO ATTEMPTS OF REVOLT SO THERE ARE FEW EXAMPLES OF
NATIVE FLAGS .

IN THIS TIME LIKE THE RED PENNANT USED BY THE KINGDOM OF TONDO THE PLAIN YELLOW FLAG OF THE SULTANATE
OF MAGUINDANAO ,THE FLAG OF THE SALANG REVOLT ,THE SULU SULTANATE BAZZILL REVOLT AND SOME PROVINCIAL
ENSIGNS .THEIR SECOND OFFICIAL FLAG WAS ALSO A FOREIGN ONE AFTER BEING RULED BY THE SPANISH . THE ISLANDS
WERE CEDED BY SPAIN TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BECAUSE OF THEIR DEFEAT IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
WHICH ENDED IN 1898’.

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JEREMI CAPANGPANGAN

IN RETURN THE U.S PAID A SUM OF TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS TO SPAIN DURING THE TIME THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT BY
LOCA;LS TO CREATE A FREE PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC AND THIS MOVEMENT COUNTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF MANY
GROUPS AND FACTIONS INSIDE THE PHILIPPINES WHICH HAD THEIR OWN FLAGS .

THE MAJORITY OF WHICH WERE RED WITH SOME WHITE SYMBOLS IN THE CENTER LIKE THE FLAG OF MAGDALo
KATIPUNAN FACTION.THE FLAG OF THE TAGALOG REPUBLIC, THE SULTANATE OF SULU WHICH WAS STILL AROUND AND
OCCUPIED ONLY A BIT OF TERRITORY IN THE PHILIPPINES.THE ZAMBOANGA REPUBLIC OR THYE FLAG OF THE REPUBLIC
OF BIAK-NA-BATO THIS ;LAST ONE WAS THE FIRST OFFICIAL FLAG OF THE PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC AND WAS USED DURING
THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION.

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MARICON CASEM

BUT THERE WAS ALSO THE MAIN INDEPENDENCE FLAG. .IF YOU WILL, THE FLAG OF THE PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC WHICH
RESEMBLES TODAY’S FLAG IT WAS FLOWN THE FIRST TIME IN A SLIMISH AGAINST SPANISH TROOPS.THE TROOPS WERE
LED BY GENERAL AGUINALDO WHO HAD BEEN IN EXILE IN HONG KONG AND HAD BROUGHT THIS REVOLUTIONARY FLAG
WITH HIM TO PRESENT THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT.IT CONTAINS A MYTHICAL SUN WITH A FACE SIMILAR TO THE
SUN OF MAY IN OTHER FORMER SPANISH COLONIES,THE TRIANGLE OF FREEMASONRY AND THE EIGHT REBELLIOUS
PROVINCES AGAINST THE SPANISH , THE THREE STARS REPRESENTED THE THREE MAIN ISLANDS [LUZON,VISAYAS AND
MINDANAO], THE FLAG CARRIES THE TEXT IN SPANISH SAYING EXPEDITIONARY FORCES OF NORTH AND LUZON. AND ON
THE BACK IT SAYS FREEDOM JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.

BUT THE PROBLEM HERE WAS THAT THE US WEREN'T VERY HAPPY WITH THE IDEA OF A FREE PHILIPPINES SO WHEN THEY
RECEIVED THE ISLANDS FROM THE SPANISH THEY IMPOSED DIRECT ADMINISTRATION ALL THE WAY UNTIL 1919 USING
OWN NATIONAL FLAG REPRESENT THE ISLANDS. FINALLY IN 1919 THE PHILIPPINES GOT THEIR OWN OFFICIAL FLAG
USING THE PREVIOUS DESIGN BY THE GENERAL EMILIO AGUINALDO. BUT WITH THE FEW CHANGES THE TONES OF THE
RED AND BLUE WERE MATCH THE ONES ON THE AMERICAN FLAG AND THE SUN'S FACE WAS REMOVED. AND HIS SPANISH
TAX WAS ALSO NOT PRESENT . HOWEVER THESE SPECIFICATIONS WERE NOT MADE OFFICIAL . SO A LOT OF ORIONS OF
THE FLAG FLEW ALL OVER THE PHILIPPINES IN 1936 THESE SPECIFICATIONS WERE FINALLY CODIFIED THE SHADE OF THE
COLORS THE FACT THAT BY TRIANGLE SHOULD BE EQUILATERAL AND THAT THE RAYS OF THE SUN SHOULD BE
SOMEWHAT SIMPLIFIED AND THIS WAS THE FLAG IN USE UNTIL THE 1940S.

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EUGENE HABAL DUGENIA

BUT THEN CAME THE WORLD WAR TWO DURING THE WAR THE PHILIPPINES WERE PUT RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF THE
PACIFIC THEATER OF WAR BEING A PUPPET OR AN ALLIED,. IF YOU WILL OF THE WEST THEY WERE PUT IN THE WRECKLED
CONFLICT WITH THE JAPANESE AND TARGETED BY THE EMPIRE IN THEIR EXPANSION TOWARDS SOUTHEAST ASIA .

SO FROM 1942 TO 2943 BOARD OF THE PHILIPPINES FLEW JAPANESE FLAG DUE TO FOREWIGN OCCUPATION. THE
GOVERNMENT IN EXILE HOWEVER CONTINUED TO FLY THE 1943 THE SECOND PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC WAS INAUGURATED
USING THAT SAME FLAG AFTER THE WAR . THE US GRANTED THE PHILIPPINES THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND THROUGHOUT
THE REST OF THE 20 TH CENTURY ALTERED THE FLAG A LITTLE MOSTLY IN COLORS DEPARTMENT EVENTUALLY
REVERTING BACK TO ORIGINAL COLORS OF AGUINALDOS DESIGN PREVIOUS TO AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION SO IN 1998
THE CURRENT FLAG WAS MADE OFFICIAL AND PERMANENT AS THE FLAG OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AS FOR
MEANING OF THE FLAG ACCORDING TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE INDEPENDENCE

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LEXICON NONESA

THE WHITE TRIANGLE SIGNIFIES THE EMBLEM OF THE KATIPUNAN THE SECRET SOCIETY THAT OPPOSED SPANISH RULE,
THE COLORS COMMEMORATE THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES AS A MANIFESTATION OF GRATITUDE FOR AMERICAN AID
AGAINST THE SPANISH DURING THE REVOLUTION .

THE THREE STARS REPRESENT THE THREE MAIN ISLANDS LUZON MINDANAO AND PANAY ALSO VISAYAS AND THE SUN
REPRESENTS THE GIGANTIC STEPS MADE BY THE SONS OF THE COUNTRY . ALONG PATH OF PROGRESS AND CIVILIZATION
WHILE THE EIGHT RAYS REPRESENT THE EIGHT PROVINCES WHICH ORIGINALLY REBELLED AGAINST SPAIN BUT THE SUN
IS ALSO LIKELY TO BE THE REMAIN OF THE SUN OF MAY WHICH WAS SOMEWHAT INFLUENCED BY SPANISH WAR OR BY
ANCIENT NATIVE POPULATIONS.

THE ORIGIN OF THIS SYMBOLS IS ALSO QUITE INTERESTING ALTHOUGH OBVIOUSLY UP FOR DEBATE .THERE IS AN
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION ON THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT WEBSITE WHICH STATES IT WAS LIKE HAVING SOME
INFLUENCE FROM SOUTHERN AMERICA FLAGS FROM THE US FLAG MASONRY AND EVEN SOME LOCAL PORT FLAGS IN
THE PHILIPPINES THERE ALSO A THEORY FOR WHICH NO REAL CONFIRMATION THAT THE FLAGS DESIGN WAS ORIGINALLY
INSPIRED BY THAT OF THE CUBAN FLAG RECENTLY AN ARGUMENT HAS BEEN MADE BY THE PROVINCE OF ZAMBALES
THAT THEY WERE ALSO PART OF THEORIGINAL REVOLT AND THEREFORE THE SUN ON A FLAG SHOULD BE MODIFIED TO
ACCOMMODATE A NINTH RAY AND THE QUEZON PROVINCE HAS DONE THE SAME ANOTHER DEFENDER FOR THE
ADDITION OF THE NINTH RAY OR THE IMMORAL PEOPLE.

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VINCENT C CAROLINO

THE MUSLIM NATIVES OF ISLANDS WHICH CLAIM THAT ANEW RAY COULD BE ADDED INTHEIR REPRESENTATION SO IF ALL
WISHES ARE ACCOMODATED THE FLAG COULD END UP WITH NOT NINE BUT ELEVEN RAYS . OTHER PROPOSALS ASKED
FOR THE ADDITION OF A FOURTH STAR TO REPRESENT NORTH BORNEO A TERRITORY CLAIMED BY THE PHILLIPINES BUT
CURRENTLY UNDER MALAYSIAN RULE AND THIS ADDITION WOULD MEAN THE CHANGING OF THE TRIANGLE INTO A
RECTANGLE AND SOME VEN SAY THAT A CRESENT MOON SHOLUD BE ADDED TO THE FLAG PERHAPS TO REPRESENT THE
MUSLIM POPULATION IN THE COUNTRY SO WHO KOWS MAYBE THE PHILIPPINE FLAG COULD BE EVENTUALLY LOOK LIKE
ONE OF THESELIKE ANY OTHER COUNTRY .

SO THAT IS THE FLAG OF THE PHILIPPINES RED AND BLUE ONES WITH A WHITE TRIANGLE,THREE GOLDEN STARS AND A
GOLDEN SUN WITH EIGHT RAYS.