History and Politics (Philippines)

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of the Philippines with the correct year: The first recorded visit by Europeans is Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, which landed in Homonhon Island, now part of Gui…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of the Philippines with the correct year: The Spanish Philippines began with the Pacific expansion of New Spain and the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi's expedit…
  3. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand Magellan with the correct year: Born around ______ into a family of minor Portuguese nobility, Magellan became a skilled sailor and naval officer in the service o…
  4. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand Magellan with the correct year: The other ship, commanded by Elcano, sailed west across the Indian Ocean and north along the Atlantic coast of Africa, finally ret…
  5. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand Magellan with the correct year: Magellan was born in northern Portugal, possibly around ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mactan with the correct year: Surviving members of Magellan's crew continued the expedition under the command of Juan Sebastian de Elcano, who completed the journ…
  7. Complete the sentence about Battle of Mactan with the correct year: Elcano and his fleet sailed west and reached Spain in ______, completing the first circumnavigation of the world.
  8. Complete the sentence about Lapulapu with the correct year: Magellan's death ended his voyage of circumnavigation and delayed Spanish expansion into the archipelago until the expedition of Miguel Lópe…
  9. Complete the sentence about Lapulapu with the correct year: The Victoria continued sailing westward, commanded by Juan Sebastián Elcano, and managed to return to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain in ______…
  10. Complete the sentence about Lapulapu with the correct year: In ______, King Charles I of Spain relinquished all claim over the Spice Islands to Portugal in the treaty of Zaragoza.
  11. Complete the sentence about Miguel López de Legazpi with the correct year: Legazpi established the first Spanish settlement in the East Indies after his expedition crossed the Pacific Ocean, arriving…
  12. Complete the sentence about Miguel López de Legazpi with the correct year: Miguel López de Legazpi was born on 12 June ______ in the town of Zumarraga in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa, Spain.
  13. Complete the sentence about Miguel López de Legazpi with the correct year: Around ______ Legazpi settled in New Spain, the Spanish colony recently created from the conquests of Hernán Cortés in Mexico…
  14. Complete the sentence about Spanish colonization of the Philippines with the correct year: In ______, Ruy López de Villalobos arrived at the islands of Leyte and Samar and named them Las Islas Filipin…
  15. Complete the sentence about Spanish colonization of the Philippines with the correct year: Philip was in Brussels at the time and his return to Spain was delayed until ______ because of European polit…
  16. Complete the sentence about Spanish colonization of the Philippines with the correct year: In ______, the Spanish Crown permitted the establishment of the encomienda system that it was abolishing in t…
  17. Complete the sentence about Manila galleon with the correct year: The route was inaugurated in ______ after the Augustinian friar and navigator Andrés de Urdaneta pioneered the tornaviaje or return ro…
  18. Complete the sentence about Manila galleon with the correct year: The trade using "Urdaneta's route" lasted until ______, when the Mexican War of Independence broke out.
  19. Complete the sentence about Manila galleon with the correct year: In ______, a Spanish expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan sailed west across the Pacific using the westward trade winds.
  20. Complete the sentence about Philippine Revolution with the correct year: In June ______, Philippine revolutionaries declared independence.
  21. Complete the sentence about Andrés Bonifacio with the correct year: In ______, Bonifacio, then a 29-year-old widower, met the 18-year-old Gregoria de Jesús through his friend Teodoro Plata, who was he…
  22. Complete the sentence about Katipunan with the correct year: An attempt to secure firearms from a visiting Japanese warship in May ______ failed to gain anything.
  23. Complete the sentence about Katipunan with the correct year: The Katipunan was formed in ______ by Filipino nationalists Deodato Arrellano, Teodoro Plata, Valentin Diaz, Ladislao Diwa, Andres Bonifaci…
  24. Complete the sentence about Katipunan with the correct year: Modern historical consensus generally places Katipunan's formation on the night of July 7, ______, following Rizal's arrest.
  25. Complete the sentence about José Rizal with the correct year: At a stopover in Barcelona, he was arrested on October 6, ______ after the Philippine Revolution broke out; the revolution was inspired by…
  26. Complete the sentence about José Rizal with the correct year: In December ______, he was executed by the Spanish colonial government for the crime of rebellion.
  27. Complete the sentence about José Rizal with the correct year: The family's patrilineal lineage traced back to Lam-co, a Chinese merchant from Fujian who immigrated to the Philippines in ______ and set…
  28. Complete the sentence about Emilio Aguinaldo with the correct year: On April 30, ______, he entered the lottery of the Spanish auxiliary conscription with number 221.
  29. Complete the sentence about Emilio Aguinaldo with the correct year: On January 1, ______, Aguinaldo became a Freemason, joining Pilar Lodge No. 203, Imus, Cavite by the codename "Colon".
  30. Complete the sentence about Emilio Aguinaldo with the correct year: On August 31, ______, Aguinaldo started the assault by beginning as a skirmish to the full-blown revolt Kawit Revolt.
  31. Complete the sentence about Apolinario Mabini with the correct year: Mabini performed all his revolutionary and governmental activities despite having lost the use of both his legs to polio shortly be…
  32. Complete the sentence about Apolinario Mabini with the correct year: The latter saw Mabini captured and exiled to Guam by American colonial authorities, allowed to return only two months before his ev…
  33. Complete the sentence about Apolinario Mabini with the correct year: Apolinario Mabini was born on July 23, ______, in Barrio Talaga in Tanauan, Batangas.
  34. Complete the sentence about Apolinario Mabini with the correct year: In ______, Mabini received a scholarship from Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila.
  35. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On May 1, ______, the US defeated the Spaniards in the Battle of Manila Bay.
  36. Complete the sentence about Philippine Declaration of Independence with the correct year: The Philippine revolutionary government had been constituted as a democratic republic on January 23, ______ an…
  37. Complete the sentence about Philippine–American War with the correct year: The United States did not recognize either event as legitimate, and tensions escalated until fighting commenced on February 4…
  38. Complete the sentence about Philippine–American War with the correct year: Shortly after being denied a request for an armistice, the Philippine government issued a proclamation on June 2, ______, urg…
  39. Complete the sentence about Philippine–American War with the correct year: Philippine forces initially attempted to engage U.S. forces conventionally but transitioned to guerrilla tactics by November…
  40. Complete the sentence about Philippine–American War with the correct year: The Moro Rebellion ended with their final defeat at the Battle of Bud Bagsak on June 15, ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Philippine–American War with the correct year: In ______, the United States Congress passed the Philippine Organic Act, which created the Philippine Assembly.
  42. Complete the sentence about Commonwealth of the Philippines with the correct year: Women's suffrage was adopted, and the economy recovered to pre-Depression levels before the Japanese invasion of the…
  43. Complete the sentence about Commonwealth of the Philippines with the correct year: In ______, Tagalog was declared to be the basis of a national language, effective after two years.
  44. Complete the sentence about Commonwealth of the Philippines with the correct year: The pre-______ U.S. territorial administration, or Insular Government, was headed by a Governor-General appointed by…
  45. Complete the sentence about Manuel L. Quezon with the correct year: Urbina had come to Baler to serve as its parish priest in ______ from Esparragosa de la Serena, Cáceres Province, Spain.
  46. Complete the sentence about Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas with the correct year: On January 3, ______, the Central Bank of the Philippines was formally inaugurated with Cuaderno as the first governor.
  47. Complete the sentence about Philippine Stock Exchange with the correct year: The exchange was created in ______ from the merger of the Manila Stock Exchange and the Makati Stock Exchange.
  48. Complete the sentence about Overseas Filipino Workers with the correct year: In ______, the Republic Act 8042, or Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act, became law.
  49. Complete the sentence about Philippine Airlines with the correct year: The airline was founded in ______ and is the oldest operating commercial airline in Asia.
  50. Complete the sentence about Philippine Airlines with the correct year: Philippine Airlines launched its first flight on March 15, ______, using a Beechcraft Model 18 aircraft from Manila to Baguio.
  51. Complete the sentence about Philippine Airlines with the correct year: In ______, PAL was privatized when then-chairman Benigno Toda Jr. acquired a majority stake.
  52. Complete the sentence about Philippine Airlines with the correct year: The airline underwent privatization again in ______, when it was purchased by a group led by Antonio Cojuangco.
  53. Complete the sentence about Ninoy Aquino International Airport with the correct year: Following World War II and Philippine independence, Grace Park Airfield ceased operations, while Nielson Airport c…
  54. Complete the sentence about Ninoy Aquino International Airport with the correct year: On August 5, ______, Pan Am inaugurated the first scheduled jet aircraft services to Manila with the arrival of a…
  55. Complete the sentence about Manila Metro with the correct year: In ______, MRTC entered into a turnkey contract with Sumitomo Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the line's construction.
  56. Complete the sentence about Philippine National Railways with the correct year: Sykes was granted concession rights by the Spanish government to construct a rail line from Manila to Dagupan on June 1…
  57. Complete the sentence about Philippine National Railways with the correct year: The line opened as the Ferrocarril de Manila a Dagupan on November 24, ______, and the Manila Railway Company was formal…
  58. Complete the sentence about Philippine National Railways with the correct year: The Ferrocarril de Manila a Dagupan would eventually become the North Main Line, while services to Southern Luzon under…
  59. Complete the sentence with the correct year: By ______, the MRR elected José Paez as its first Filipino general manager.
  60. Complete the sentence about Jeepney with the correct year: At the ______ New York World's Fair, a Sarao jeepney was exhibited in the Philippine pavilion as a national symbol for Filipinos.
  61. Which place completes this sentence about History of the Philippines? The Spanish Philippines began with the Pacific expansion of New Spain and the arrival of Miguel López de ______'s expedition on Fe…
  62. Which place completes this sentence about Lapulapu? Magellan's death ended his voyage of circumnavigation and delayed Spanish expansion into the archipelago until the expedition of Miguel López de ___…
  63. Which place completes this sentence about Miguel López de Legazpi? Miguel López de ______ was born on 12 June 1502 in the town of Zumarraga in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa, Spain.
  64. Which place completes this sentence about Miguel López de Legazpi? Around 1528 ______ settled in New Spain, the Spanish colony recently created from the conquests of Hernán Cortés in Mexico.
  65. Which place completes this sentence about Spanish colonization of the Philippines? Forty-four years later, a Spanish expedition led by Miguel López de ______ left modern Mexico and began the Spanish c…
  66. Which place completes this sentence about Fidel V. Ramos? Ramos died of COVID-19 Omicron variant at the ______ Medical Center in Makati on July 31, 2022, at the age of 94.
  67. Which place completes this sentence about Philippine Stock Exchange? On June 15, the former ______ Stock Exchange adopted the MakTrade trading system.

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