1571

Manila Founded

May 19, 1571

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi moved the Spanish capital of the Philippines to a sheltered bay on Luzon and founded Manila on the ruins of a Muslim settlement whose raja he had defeated. Within a generation Manila would become the Pacific terminus of a global trade linking Ming China, Mexico, and Spain.

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Before and after in Southeast Asia

Before: 1565: Urdaneta Finds the Return Route
After: 1592: Philippine Missions Expand

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1569: Rising of the Northern Earls
After: 1573: Nobunaga Ends the Ashikaga Shogunate

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Manila