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1890s - Beginnings of ADVERTISEMENT

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Spanish rule.

1898 - During the

Spanish-American War,
the US navy destroys the
Spanish fleet in Manila
Bay. Spain cedes the
Philippines to the US
under the Treaty of Paris
in December. The US
proclaims military rule.

1899 - Insurgent activity

against US forces
begins. US troops in the Spanish-American War, which ended over 350 years of
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1901 - Leader of Space race
insurgents, Emilio Aguinaldo, is captured. The candidates battling over who
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1902 - US civil government replaces military rule.
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1907 - A Philippine assembly is inaugurated. Why does a rich white suburb
Mount Mayon
want to split?
1935 - A plebiscite approves the establishment
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1941 - Japan attacks the Philippines by air and Nigeria
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1944 - US forces retake the islands.

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1947 - The US is awarded military bases on the actress dies at 66
islands.
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1951 - Peace treaty signed with Japan. The Philippines eventually receive April
$800m in reparations payments.
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1969 - Marcos is re-elected amidst allegations Lynda Bellingham: Tributes paid to

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policy in Vietnam. There are protests against
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1972 - Marcos declares martial law. The
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parliament is suspended, opposition politicians
are arrested, censorship is imposed.
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1973 - A new constitution gives Marcos absolute Marcos amassed an estimated $10bn fortune grounds?
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Became president in 1965
1977 - Opposition leader Benigno Aquino is
sentenced to death. Marcos delays the Fled the country in 1986 Islamic State: Turkey to let Iraq Kurds join
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1980 - Aquino allowed to travel to the US for Manila awarded Marcos millions
medical treatment.
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1981 - Martial law is lifted. Marcos wins
presidential elections.

1983 - Aquino returns to the Philippines, but is shot dead as he leaves

his plane. The military is blamed for the murder.

"People power"

1986 - Presidential elections see Marcos opposed by Aquino's widow,

Corazon. Marcos declares himself the winner, but Aquino disputes the
result. There are mass protests, dubbed "people power", in Manila. The
military withdraws its support for Marcos, who flees to Hawaii. The new Where in the world?
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1989 December - US jets assist Philippine government forces in

suppressing an attempted coup. P
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1990 - Military officials are convicted of the
murder of Benigno Aquino. Fallen hero

1991 - The US abandons Clark Air Base after a

volcanic eruption smothers it with ash.

1992 - Aquino's defence minister, Fidel Ramos,

wins presidency. The US closes Subic Bay
Naval Station.

1996 - Peace agreement reached with Muslim The Travel Show

separatist group, the Moro National Liberation
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Liberation Front (MILF), carries on its campaign. Joseph Estrada: Former film star was ousted in
coup
1998 - Joseph Estrada elected president.
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2000 November - Impeachment proceedings
start against President Estrada on allegations of
corruption, betrayal of public trust, and violation of the constitution.

Estrada tried

2001 January - Suspension of impeachment causes mass street protests.

The military withdraws its support and President Estrada stands down on
20 January, still proclaiming his innocence. His vice-president, Gloria
Arroyo, is sworn in as president. ADVERTISEMENT

2001 March - The MILF declares a ceasefire and says it is ready to hold
talks with the government.

2001 April - Joseph Estrada is charged with plundering more than $80m
from state funds while in office. He is eventually found guilty and jailed for

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life. He wins a pardon.

2002 January - US and Filipino armies hold joint

counterterror exercises take place near Conflict in the south Philippines
stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group, which US
says has links to Osama Bin Laden.

2002 October - Series of deadly bomb blasts -

on a Manila bus and at three locations in
Zamboanga city - are blamed on Islamic
militants.

2003 February Ceasefire between MILF and

government breaks down. Planned talks are
called off in May after a rebel attack on
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Arroyo under pressure

2005 January - Heavy fighting between troops and MILF rebels breaks
the July 2003 ceasefire.

Despite impressive economic growth, millions of Filipinos still live in poverty

2005 April- Breakthrough achieved on contentious issue of ancestral land

achieved at peace talks in Malaysia between government and MILF
rebels.

2005 June - Influential Cardinal Jaime Sin, who led the two peaceful
revolts that toppled Presidents Marcos and Estrada, dies aged 76.

2005 July-September - President Arroyo pressured to resign over

allegations of vote-rigging; survives an opposition attempt to impeach
her.

2006 February - More than 1,000 people are killed by a mudslide which
engulfs a village on the central island of Leyte.

President Arroyo declares a week-long state of emergency after the army

says it has foiled a planned coup.

2007 January - Death of Abu Sayyaf leader

Khaddafy Janjalani confirmed; army says he Political killings
was killed in fighting in 2006.

2007 February - Government report accuses

military of being behind the killings of hundreds
of mainly left-wing activists since 2001.

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2007 April - The military says stepping up its
offensive against Abu Sayyaf, after the group
beheaded seven Christian hostages.

2007 November - Renegade soldiers make

failed coup bid at luxury hotel in Manila after
breaking out of court where they were standing
trial for failed 2003 mutiny.

2008 July-August - Government negotiators say

they have reached an agreement with MILF
rebels on the expansion of a Muslim
autonomous region in the south. Deal collapses 2007: students in Quezon city stage a mock
massacre in protest against political killings
after Christian communities raise objections and
renewed fighting on the southern island of Report implicated military in deaths of hundreds
Mindanao leaves at least 30 people dead. of activists

2008 December - Norwegian-brokered peace Philippines army is 'in denial'

talks with Maoist guerrillas of the New People's
Army (NPA) break down; NPA attacks army
patrol on Mindanao.

2009 September - Army announces capture of leading MILF figure

Camarudin Hadji Ali.

2009 November - An attack on group of people travelling to file election

nomination papers on Mindanao leaves 57 dead. Victims' relatives blame
the rival Ampatuan clan.

2009 December - Peace talks between Manila and MILF resume in

Malaysia, after breaking down 16 months ago.

A founder of Abu Sayyaf alleged to have helped forge links with al-
Qaeda, Abdul Basir Latip, is arrested on Mindanao. He denies being a
member of a militant group.

2010 February - The army captures Abu Sayyaf

leader Mujibar Alih Amon, suspected of a Mindanao massacre
kidnapping raid on a Malaysian resort in 2000
and the killing of Christian missionaries in 2001.

Prosecutors charge 196 more people with

murder over the Maguindanao massacre in
November, including Andal Ampatuan Snr, a
former provincial governor and ally of President
Arroyo.

2010 March - Peace monitors return to

Mindanao to oversee MILF talks.
The 2009 massacre of 57 people on Mindanao
shocked the Philippines
2010 June - Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino becomes
president.
The rise of the Ampatuans
2010 September - Andal Ampatuan junior, a Philippine massacre exposes political
member of the powerful Ampatuan clan, goes underworld
on trial on charges of organising the
Maguindanao mass killings.

2011 February - Manila and communist NPA agree to work towards a

peace deal by 2012 at talks in Oslo, their first negotiations since the
previous round broke down in 2004. Troops arrested prominent NPA
member Tirso Alcantara the previous month.

2011 November - Former President Gloria Arroyo is arrested on vote-

fraud charges over a Senate seat election in 2007. She denies the
charges.

2012 May - Philippines and Chinese naval vessels confront one another
off the Scarborough Shoal reef in the South China Sea. Both countries
claim the reef, which may have significant reserves of oil and gas.

2012 October - The government signs a framework peace plan with the
Muslim rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending a 40-year conflict that
has cost an estimated 120,000 lives. The plan will set up an autonomous
region in part of the south where Muslims are the majority. The more
extreme Abu Sayyaf group, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda, remains

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Government enacts controversial cybercrime law amid anti-censorship

protests. The Supreme Court suspends the law only days after it has
come into force, in response to numerous legal challenges.

Former President Gloria Arroyo is arrested in hospital on charges of

plundering state funds while in office, a little over two months after being
released on bail in a separate case relating to electoral fraud allegations.

2012 December - Parliament defies the Catholic Church to vote for state-
funded contraception, approving a bill that has been debated for 13
years.

2013 February - Armed followers of a self-proclaimed sultan invade

Sabah state on Malaysian Borneo, sparking several days of fighting with
Malaysian forces. More than 60 people are killed.

2013 May - Major diplomatic row erupts between Taiwan and the
Philippines after Filipino coastguards kill a Taiwanese fisherman in
disputed waters.

2013 September - Stand-off between the army and rebels of the Moro
National Liberation Front in the southern city of Zamboanga prompts
75,000 residents to flee.

2013 November - Typhoon Haiyan sweeps across central areas of the

country leaving devastation and thousands of dead in its wake. A major
international aid effort is organised to help more than four million people
affected.

2014 March - Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebel group signs a peace
deal with the government that brings an end to one of Asia's longest and
deadliest conflicts.

The Philippines submits evidence to a UN tribunal hearing its case

against China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.

2014 April - Supreme Court approves a birth control law, which requires
government health centres to distribute free contraceptives. The bill
marks a defeat for the Catholic Church, which campaigned strongly
against it.

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