EARLY FILIPIN REVOLTS

EARLY FILIPINO

REVOLTS

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GROUP 3

ANGELIKA LACASTESANTOS

HAZEL ANN PAUT

group 3

SHERIANN ASAMUDDIN

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1. EarlyFilipino Revolt

2. Filipino revolts against Spain

3. Banchao revolt

4. The Indian Land by Fiars

5. Summary

eARLY FILIPINO REVOLTS

• These revolt happened during the early part of Spanish colonization particularly in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. Moreover, the revolts took place in different parts of the Philippines.

• Attempts of preserving the old religion by Filipinos inspired the revolts led by Tomblot of Bohol and Bancao of Leyte

eARLY FILIPINO REVOLTS

• The imposition of Catholic faith, forced labor or Polo, and the unsurpation of land by the religious orders triggered off reaction from the Filipinos which came in form of revolts.

FILIPINO REVOLTS AGAINST SPAIN

• PLACE: TONDO. NAVOTAS

• LEADER: LAKANDULA
• CAUSE: FAILURE OF GOVERNOR LAVEZARES TO FULFIL LEGAZPI'S PROMISE
• RESULT: FAILED
• TYPE OF REVOLT: ECONOMIC

revolt of lakandula 1574

• REVOLT OF THE LAKANS ALSO KNOWN THE TONDO CONSPIRACY

• DATU AND LAKANS

• His plan was to kill the spaniards and set the city of Manila in fire.

tondo conspiracy 1587-88

• Led by Magalat, a Filipino rebel from Cagayan

• Together with his brother, he urged the entire country to revolt.

• Colonial troops fought successfully against the rebels, and captured and executed several leaders under Magalat.

Magalats revolt 1596

• Marin, the curate of Ilocos at that time, tried to convince the igororts to covert peacefully to christianism. The Igorots, however, killed Marin and the Governor-General sent captain Aranda with colonial troops, who used brute force and had the Igorot villages burned in his rasge for the loss of the Friar.

igorot revolt (northern luzon 1601

• The Irraya Revolt
• Gaddang revolt was an uprising by the Gaddang people of Norther Isabela that transpired on 6 November 1621.

gaddang revolt (cagayan) 1621

• PLACE:BOHOL
• LEADER: BABAYLAN TAMBLOT
• CAUSE: DESIRE TO ABANDON CHRISTIANITY AND RETURN TO OLD RELIGIOUS FAITH
• RESULT: FAILED
• TYPE OF REVOLT: RELIGIOUS

tamblot's revolt 1621-22

• Was a religious uprising against Spanish colonial rule led by Bankaw or Bancao (which per Sanchez dictionary and Alcina's account, the word means "spear" in Waray), datu of Limasawa, Carigara, Abuyog, Sogod (now part of southern Leyte).

• He warmly accepted Miguel Lopez de Legazpi when he arrived in the Philippines in 1564, and was converted as a Christian. Being hospitable toward de Legazpi and his men, he received a letter of gratitude from the Spanish King, Philip II.

• Though he was one of the first converts of Catholicism under de Legazpi, he left his faith and allegiance to the Spanish after around fifty years.

bankaw's bancaos revolt (leyte) 1621

caraga revolt (caraga) 1629

cAGAYAN REVOLT (CAGAYAN) 1625-27

• The people of Iligan proclaimed their independence on February 2, 1763, defying the tribute collectors and Spain. Under their chieftains named Dado and Juan Mayarac, the rebels committed various acts of violence on the Spanish officials and the friars. But the revolt did not last long, for Don Manuel de Arza and his loyal Filipino troops came and quelled it. The leaders were executed.

cagayan revolt (cagayan) 1639

• Ladia a Bornean and a descendant of Lakandula who came to Malolos, thought that it was about time that they stage an uprising, This was despite the fact that a parish priest tried to convenience him not to pursue his plans. Upon his capture, he was brought to Manila where he was executed.

ladia revolt 1649

• Juan Ponce Sumoroy

• Palagpag, Northern Samar

• June 1, 1649 to 1650

• They revolted against the Polo system

• Spread to Mindanao, Bicol, Cebu,

Masbate, Camiguin, Zamboanga, and Camrines.

sumoroy 1649-50

• Velarde who wrote Historia de la de provincia Philipinas de la Compania de Jesus: Segunda parte (History of the Philippine province of the Society of Jesus) in 1749

• Fr. Casimiro Diaz who wrote Conquista de las Isla Filipinas (Conquest of the Philippine Islands) in 1890.

• Fr. Velarde was a Jesuit priest while Fr. Diaz was an Augustinian friar

• The rebellion of 1622 in Carigara, Leyte broke• The natives of Carigara in the island of Leyte became impatient. •Bancao, the ruling chief of Limasava •1649-1650 •Happened during the time of Governor Don Diego Fajardo •Burned down the houses in Palapag •Doña Angelina Dinagungan,accompanied by Doña MariaMalon, saved holy ornaments.

Excerpt of an Account of the Bancao Revolt

Usurpation of Indian Lands by Friars

• In the provinces of Bulacan, Batangas, Laguna, Tondo, and Cavite, which produce rice and sugar, there was agrarian unrest

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• In these provinces like Cavite, Batangas, Laguna, Tondo and Bulacan was many religious groups controlled haciendas.

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• By the eighteenth century, a number of religious groups had acquired territory, frequently by stealing it or usurping it.

• Being forced off of the community areas they owned, the locals were also barred from gathering firewood, grazing their livestock, and fishing in the rivers.

summary

• The Church and the State, on different occasions of the revolts, took the side of the

• Filipinos. Therevolts were suppressed by pitting one Filipino ethnic group against another.

• The revolts unintentionally provided information about early Filipino culture.

• Early inthecolonization of the PhilippinesbySpain, Filipinos respondedto thecolonial master throughrevolts.

• Therevolts were causedby Filipinos wantingto preservetheir pre-Spanishreligion, freedom from forcelabor, and preservation of their communal lands.

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