After traveling three-quarters of the way around the globe, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan is killed during a tribal skirmish on Mactan Island in the Philippines. Earlier in the month, his ships had dropped anchor at the Philippine island of Cebu, and Magellan met with the local chief,...
It was one of the most decisive naval battles in history and marked the end of the Spanish colonial period in Philippine history.The war would end in December with the signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 in which Spain renounced all claims to Cuba, gave Guam and Puerto Rico to the ...
doi:10.1016/j.jalz.2018.07.032Henderson, Samuel T.Walker, JudithGold, MichaelMorimoto, BruceGreer, SabrinaDavis, Charles S.Elsevier ScienceAlzheimer's & Dementia
A: The word “Filipino” is spelled with an “f” because it’s derived from the Spanish name for the Philippine Islands: las Islas Filipinas. Originally, after Magellan’s expedition in 1521, the Spanish called the islands San Lázaro, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. But in 1543...