CHAPTER

4:
COLONIZATION OF

PHILIPPINE
THE
 CONTENTS
WHO IS DIVISION OF THE BATTLE
FERDINAND THE WORLD OF MACTAN
MAGELLAN
DISCOVERY OF SIGNIFICANCE
EARLY PHILIPPINE OF MAGELLAN
EXPLORATION ARCHIPELAGO EXPIDITION
 WHO IS
FERDINAND
MAGELLAN
 FERDINAND
MAGELLAN Portuguese
Born in Northern explorer
Portugal in around
1480

Known for :
First European
Father: Pedro de Magalhães Pacific Ocean
Mother : Alda de Mezquita. Crossing
 EARLY
EXPLORATIONS
• Portugal was the first European country to establish
direct contact with the Orient.
• 1488, Bartolome Diaz rounded the cape of Good
Hope
• 1498 Vasco De Gama reached India
• 1513 Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean
• 1534-1535 Jacques Cartier explored the St.
Lawrence
DIVISION OF THE
WORLD
• RIVALRY between Spain and Portugal
was settled when Alexander IV, issued a
Bull (1493)
• Third bull issued by Pope Alexander
• Conflict Settled by the treaty of
Tordesillas
DISCOVERY OF
PHILIPPINE
THE
ARCHIPELAG
O
• Ferdinand Magellan offered his service to
King Charles I of Spain and convinced
the King.
• Charles I agreed to send an expedition
under command of Magellan.
• Aug. 10, 1915 Magellan sailed from Seville to the
port of San Lucar de Brameda
• Sept 20, 1519 Sailed westward across the Atlantic
• Sept 26 - expedition reached Canaries Island
• He continue His voyage he reached Rio de Plata
• March - he reach port San Julian
• Magellan continue to his pacific voyages that
lasted 3 months and 20 days
• March 1521 he reached Ladrones Island. he
initially named the islands "Isles of Sails".
• March 16 1521 - First recorded blood compact
between Filipinos and Spaniard.
• March 31 - Celebrated first Christian mass in the
Phil.
They Planted a large wooden cross on the
Top of the hill overlooking sea, Magellan
named the Island "ARCHIPELAGO OF
SAINT LAZARUZ"
THE BATTLE OF
MACTAN
• April 7, 1521 - Magellan and his men landed in
Cebu.
• April 14 - another mass celebration 800 Cebuanos
converted to Christianity
• At the nearby Island of Mactan , 2 chieftains :
lapu-lapu and Sula was feuding.
• Magellan took the opportunity to show Spanish
invincibility in the battle
• Magellan found it too late that he
understand the fighting ability and gallant
defense of native wariors.
• The great European navigator met his death
in the shores of the valiant Malay warrior.
• Lapu-Lapu the first Filipino hero.
SIGNIFICANCE
OF MAGELLAN
EXPEDITION
• After humiliating defeat they began to
show contempt of Spanish might.
• Rajah Humabon
• Circumnaviation continued - (The Trinidad
was captured by Portuguese while The
Victoria suceeded under Sebastian Del
Cano
• 1st Circumnavigation was completed 2 years 11
months and 16 days
SIGNIFICANCE OF FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION
• Sphericity of Earth
• Venecian Monopoly
• Existence of Philippines
• The Laoisa, Cabot, Saavedra, Villalobos, and The
Legazpi
• Villalobos - Las Islas Filipinas
(In honor of King Philip II of Spain)
• Colonization and Christianization
• Datu Zula - chieftain of Sugbu (now Cebu)
• Magellan 1000 Cebuanos and 60 armed
men
• Lapu-Lapu - 1500 Cebbuano Warriors
• Battle of Mactan - April 27, 1521
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4:

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