The first book to address Philippine history is Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas.

The
political, social, and economic facets of a colonizer and the colonized country are
covered in the book. The book that details the national and international events from
1493 to 1603, including Philippine history. Spanish missionaries ended the Philippine
baybayin writing system in order to achieve their goals, but the pre-colonial
Philippines already had a functioning legal and legislative system. Our predecessors
also had a complex society and culture rich in literature and the arts.
Sucesos de las Islas by Antonio de Morga has long been appreciated for its value. It
was first published in Mexico in 1609 and has since undergone numerous revisions. It
is a first-person narrative of the early Spanish colonial foray into Asia. The Hakluyt
Society became interested in it in 1851, but H.E.J. Stanley did not publish the edition
he prepared for the Society until 1868. Morga's writing is based on his own
experiences or on accounts from those who were there when the events were
happening.
Furthermore, as he himself states, Legazpi's expedition survivors were still alive while
he was writing his book in Manila, so he could also consult them. It goes without
saying that he would almost certainly seek such proof if he were a lawyer. It is also
the first history of the Spanish Philippines to be written by a layman as opposed to the
religious chroniclers. The Sucesos is the work of an honest observer who was also a
significant actor in the drama of his time and a versatile bureaucrat who knew the
inner workings of the administration.