Significant1565 – 1650 · 85 years
Spanish Conquest of the Philippines
Philippines · Manila · Visayas
Estimated casualties
500Ksingle estimate · no range published
Spanish forces under Miguel López de Legazpi conquered the Philippine Islands, establishing Spanish colonial rule that would last over 300 years. The conquest involved subduing Muslim sultanates and indigenous resistance movements.
Belligerents3
- Spain
- Philippines
- Moro Sultanate
ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)
Sources
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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