21 November, 1564

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TODAY IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY

The Spanish colonial Legazpi-Urdaneta expedition bound for the Philippine Islands sails from Navidad, Mexico with the primary aim of discovering a new route to the Islands of the West.

Some four decades earlier, explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who would be slain by early native freedom fighter and Mactan chieftain Lapu-Lapu, “discovered” the Philippines for the King of Spain, King Philip II.

The Legazpi-Urdaneta expedition will attempt to establish settlements in the Southeast Asian archipelago but will be met by defiant resistance by Filipino natives.

(Ref: philippineisland.lemuria; Photo from bit.ly/2f6VoEY)

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