PHILIPPINE REVOLTS AGAINST SPANISH COLONIAL RULE

Uprising/Revolt Period/Date Leader/s Place Cause/s

Dagami 1565-1567 Dagami Mactan, Cebu Spanish colonial rule

Lakandula 1574 Lakandula Tondo, Navotas Failure of Gov.

Lavezares to fulfill
Legazpi’s promise to
Lakandula

Pampanga 1585 Native Kapampangan Pampanga Abuses of Spanish

Leaders Encomienderos

Tondo Conspiracy 1587-1588 Agustin de Legazpi, Tondo, Cuyo, Desire for

Magat Salamat, Martin Calamianes Independence
Pangan, Juan Banal,
Pedro Balinguit

Revolts Against the 1589 Cagayan, Ilocos Norte Refusal to pay

Tribute tributes, tyranny of
tribute collectors

Magalat 1596 Magalat Cagayan Abuses of the Tribute

Collectors

Igorot 1601 Francisco de Tello de Northern Luzon Desire for religious

Guzmán toleration

Chinese 1602 Tsaynese inhabitants Quiapo, Tondo To capture Intramuros

Irrayas 1621 Felipe Cutabay, Gabriel Cagayan Valley Oppression of the

Dayag Indios by the Spanish
officials
 Tamblot 1621- 1622 Babaylan Tamblot Bohol Desire to abandon
Christianity and return
to old religious faith

Bancao 1621 Bancao Pagali Leyte Desire for Religious

Toleration

Itneg or Mandaya 1625, 1627, 1639 Miguel Lanab, Aldaban Cagayan Desire for
independence and
punishment of a
woman whom
displeases certain
Spanish officials

Caraga 1629- 1631 Caraga, Northern Dissatisfaction of

Mindanao townspeople to
Spanish rule

Cagayan 1639 Cagayan Dissatisfaction with

Spanish rule

Ladia 1643 Pedro Ladia Malolos, Bulacan and Weariness from

Southern Luzon Spanish oppression

Sumuroy 1649- 1650 Juan Ponce Sumoroy Eastern Visayas, Caused by Gov.
and Pedro Caamug Northern Mindanao, Fajardo’s order to send
Zamboanga Visayan laborers tyo
Cavite for shipbuilding

Maniago 1660- 1661 Francisco Maniago Bacoor, Cavite and Failure of officials to
Pampanga pay rice purchased;
repeated requirements
for polo y servico

Malong 1660- 1661 Andres Malong and Binalatongan, Quarrel between Fr.
Pedro Gumpaos Pangasinan Gorospe and Malong
Almazan 1661 Juan Magsanop, Pedro San Nicolas, Bacarra, Spanish aggression
Almazan and Gaspar Laog, Ilocos
Cristobal

Chinese 1662 Koxinga Manila Annexation of the

Philippines

Panay 1663 Tapar Oton, Panay Desire to put up a

modified form of
Christianity

Sambal 1681-1683 Pangasinan To exterminate the

roots of rebellion

Caragay 1719 Caragay Pangasinan False accusation of

smuggling on the
provincial governor

Agrarian 1745- 1746 Matienza Bulacan, Morong Usurpation of Filipino

(Rizal), Cavite, Laguna lands by religious
orders

Dagohoy 1744- 1828 Francisco Dagohoy Bohol Refusal of Fr. Morales

to give Dagohoy’s
brother a Christian
Burial

Silang 1762- 1763 Diego silang and Ilocos Desire to expel the
Gabriela Silang Spaniards from Ilocos

Palaris 1762- 1765 Juan Dela Cruz Palaris Pangasinan Demand for reforms
especially the
changing of local
officials

Lagutao 1785 Lagutao Cagayan The ban on tobacco

cultivation, comin on
top of a smallpox
epidemic
 Basi 1807 Pedro Mateo Ilocos Government monopoly
of basi manufacturing

Hermano Pule 1840- 1841 Apolinario dela Cruz Quezon Province Being a native, Pule
was denied to be
admitted as a monk.
He founded the
religious brotherhood,
Confradia De San Jose,
which the government
outlawed and ordered
to be dissolved.

References:

https://www.scribd.com/document/164590508/Philippine-Revolts

https://www.scribd.com/doc/84732195/Early-Revolts-Against-Spain
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PHILIPPINE REVOLTS
AGAINST
SPANISH COLONIAL RULE
Dwight Alipio

Jenivie Andres

Liezl Agcaoili
Jelly Ann Agcaoili

Rosalinda Barreo