Revolt of Lakandula and Sulayman

(1574)
0 Cause: Lavezaris Reversal of Legazpis Policy

0 August 20, 1572 death of Legazpi
0 Governor Guido de Lavezaris ordered the
confiscation of their patrimonial land
- didnt exempt the native rulers and descendants
from paying tribute
0 Lakandula & Sulayman- rised in arms and gathered
their warriors in Navotas
0 Juan de Salcedo & Fr. Geronimo Marin- sent by
Lavezaris to persuade them not to carry out their plan
0 Attack of Lim-Ah-Hong in Manila in 1574
First Pampanga Revolt (1585)
0 Cause: Abuses of Encomenderos

0 Pampangueno leaders- connived w/ the people of Manila and
the Borneans to rise in revolt
0 Native woman- married to a Spanish soldier, and happened to
learn of it and warned the Spanish authorities about it.
0 The leaders were arrested and executed w/o any fair trial.
The Tondo Conspiracy (1587-88)
0 Cause: Regain Lost Freedom

0 Agustin de Legazpi (nephew of Lakandula), Martin
Pangan (gobernadorcillo of Tondo), Magat Salamat
(son of Lakandula), Jun Banal (another Tondo chief),
Esteban Taes (chief of Bulacan), Pedro Balinguit
(chief of Pandacan), Pitonggatan (chief of Tondo),
Felipe Salonga (chief of Polo), and Geronimo Basi
(brother of Agustin de Legazpi) - attempts to restore
freedom and planned to overthrow the Spanish rulers.


0 Dionisio Fernandez A Japanese Christian, through him
Legazpi and his fellow-conspirator contacted a Japanese
sea captain, Juan Gayo,

Magat Salamat Antonio Surabao
A Cuyo Native


Governor General
Santiago de Vera Pedro Sarmiento
Spanish encomendero of Calamianes
Manila, October 26, 15888
0Arrest of all persons implicated in the
revolutionary plot
0Agustin de Legazpi & Martin Pangan were
brutally hanged . Their heads were cut off and
placed in iron cages
0Dionisio Fernandez was hanged and his
property was confiscated. Also Magat
Salamat,Geronimo Basi, and Esteban Taes
0 The five of the lesding members of the
conspiracy were exiled to Mexico.
Magalats Revolt, Cagayan (1596)
0 Cause: Tribute

0 2 brothers instigated the people of Cagayan to rise up in
arms due to the latters arbitrary levy collection during
the rule of Governor Fransisco Tello.
0 One of the brothers was called Magalat; The uprising
was supressed and his men were kept in Manila as
exiles.
0 The Dominican missionaries of Cagayan persuaded
Governor Tello to pardon them
0 Magalat was released and went back to Cagayan and
incited the people to continue the fight


0Governor Tello sent Captain Pedro de to quell
the revolt but Magalat remained undefeated
0The Spaniards decided to hire native assassins;
Magalat was murdered in his own house.
Revolt of the Igorots (1601)
0 Cause: Refusal to Accept New Religion

0Spaniards were determined to convert the
Igorots to Christianity.
0They launched a crusade to proselytize the
highland natives and a strong expedition was
sent to stop them from resisting colonial
subjugation
0Spaniards were only able to gain nominal
political and military control over them.
Revolt of the Irrayas, Northern Isabela
in the Cagayan Valley (1621)
0 Cause: Oppression of Spanish Officials
0 Fray Pedro de Santo Tomas- A Dominican missionary
tried to convince the rebels to avoid an uprising.
0 Gabriel Dayag and Felix Cutabay- leaders of the rebels
0 After the missionaries had left, the Irrayas began their
fight by killing the encomenderos and burning their
houses
0 Basili River- they went up after killing encomenderos
and built their fortification
0 Fr. Santo Tomas returned. The rebels stopped and the
government pardoned them. The revoly ended without
a fight
The Revolt of Tamblot, Bohol
(1621-22)
0 Cause: Return to Native Religion

0In 1621, Tamblot, a babaylan (native priest),
reported the appearance of a diwata who
promised the people a life of abundance.
0He persuaded the natives to abandon the Catholic
religion and rise against the Spaniards.
02,000 Boholanos responded
0began the uprising at the time when they were in
Cebu celebrating the feast of the beatification of
St. Francis Xavier.

0They burned the villages being supervised by the
Jesuits, as well as their churches. They threw
away all rosaries and crosses they could find.
0News of the revolt reached Cebu. Don Juan de
Alcarazo( alcalde mayor) sent an expedition to
Bohol, consisting of 50 Spaniards and more than
1,000 natives from Cebu and Pampanga.
0Tamblot and his followers were crushed.
Hankow's Revolt Leyte (1622)
0 Cause: Return to Native Religion

0Bankaw- The leader of this rebellion was the
aged chieftain of Limasawa.
-one of the first local leaders who received
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in 1565.

0 converted to Christianity and became loyal to Spain
0 Bankaw with his sons and a native priest named
Pagali, led the people of Carigara, Leyte to rise in arms
in defense of their old religion. Soon they had the whole
island into armed resistance.
0 Fr. Melchor de Vera -a Jesuit, went to Cebu and warned
the Spanish authorities of the uprising.
0 Alcalde Mayor Alcarazo - sent fleet of 40 vessels, manned
by hundreds of Cebuanos and some Spanish arquebusiers
to Leyte. The rebels were offered peace but they turned it
down.
0 The Spanish-Filipino forces pursued them in the hills and
defeated them. Bankaw, together with his son and Pagali
perished in the battle.
-The second son was beheaded as a traitor.
-His daughter was taken as captive.
-Bankaw's head was placed on a stake as a public
warning, to generate fear among the natives.
The Revolt of Ladia (1643)
0 Cause: Spanish Oppression

0 Pedro Ladia - a native of Borneo, who claimed to be a
descendant of Rajah Matanda.
0 instigated the people of Malolos, Bulacan to rise in
arms against the Spanish government.
0 Fr. Cristobal Enriquez- entreated the people to remain
loyal to Spain.
0 Ladia was later on arrested and sent to Manila to be
executed.
The Revolt of Dabao (1650s)
0 Cause: Controversial Decree to Send Carpenters to the Cavite
Shipyard

0Dabao- a Manobo chieftain in Northern
Mindanao, allowed himself to be baptized to the
Catholic faith, to move freely among fellow
Christians.
0He convinced some new converts to join him in
his plan to kill the religious and all the Spanish
soldiers in the fort.
0Dabao's opportunity came when natives who
stole a quantity of maize and rice were being
hunted down. He offered himself to catch them.
0took his men to act as prisoners.
0Dabao attacked the captain and the supposed
prisoners joined him by taking out their
concealed weapons
0Governor Diego Fajardo- offered amnesty to
the rebels to end the Northern Mindanao
unrest.
0The rebels who surrendered were either
hanged or enslaved or taken to Manila, where
they were sold to Spanish household.
Sumuroy's Revolt, Samar
(1649-50)
0 Cause: Forced Labor

0Under Juan Sumuroy's leadership, the people of
Palapag, Samar rose in arms against the
government.
0Governor Diego Fajardo- ordered the sending of
men to Cavite shipyards. Hostilities began on
June 1,1649, with the killing of the curate of the
town.
0The revolt spread to Albay and Camarines,
Cebu, Masbate, Camiguin, and as far as
Northern Mindanao. At one time, the Spanish
commander offered a large sum of money in
exchange of Sumuroy's head. The rebels sent
him the head of a pig instead.
0July 1650- the government forces staged an
assault on the natives' fort. The rebels were
caught by surprise. Sumuroy's mother perished
in the battle. The revolt ended with
individual surrenders. The rebels
themselves killed Sumuroy and brought his
head to the Spanish commander.