The recorded pre-colonial history of the Philippines, sometimes also referred to as its "protohistoric period," begins with the creation of the Laguna Copperplate Inscription in 900 AD and ends with t
The Agusan image statue (900–950 AD) discovered in 1917 on the banks of the Wawa River near Esperanza, Agusan del Sur, Mindanao in the Philippines.
The Baybayin script
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–1522 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he became the first European to encounter
History of the Philippines (900–1565)
…variations of Latin which use slightly different sets of letters and spelling systems. In 1521, the chronicler Antonio Pigafetta from the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan noted that the people that they met in Visayas were not literate. However, in the next few decades the Baybayin script seemed to have been introduced…
Portrait, c. 1550–1625
House in Sabrosa, Portugal. In the region, there is a belief that Magellan was born there.
Magellan's Cross in present-day Cebu
The original image of Santo Niño de Cebú, an image of the Child Jesus given by Magellan to the Cebuanos, now enshrined at the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño.