Spanish missionaries brought the first printing press to the Philippines in the 1590s. Tomas Pinpin, a Chinese merchant who had been converted to Christianity, put up the shop to house the press. He worked under the tutelage of the Dominican friars to produce in 1593 what is believed to be ...
From the 15th to the 19th century, Spain controlled vast territories reaching as far as Asia. At the height of their colonization, in the 18th century, Spain controlled the Indies composed of the Philippines and the New World, serving as the largest colonies under Spanish rule....
In 1974,when the Portuguese decided to withdraw from East Timor, the Fretilin independence movement had already formulated its language policy: Portuguese was to be retained as the official language. Instead, the Indonesian invasion in 1975 brought Bahasa Indenosia, the language of Indonesia, a stan...
Spain’s Arabic connection goes back to the invasion of Spain by Arabic-speaking Moors in 711 AD. Spanish and Arabic coexisted side by side until the Moors were expelled in the 15th century AD. By then thousands of Arabic words had become part of Spanish. Many of them start with al-, ...
Poet and journalist José Julián Martí, the ideological spokesman of the revolution, drew up plans for an invasion of Cuba while living in exile in New York City. Máximo Gómez y Báez, who had commanded the rebel troops during the Ten Years’ War, was among those who joined Martí’s ...
When it was, Magellan ambitiously realized the original project, although the Pacific Ocean still seemed a lot larger than it was supposed to be, and personally he only made it as far as the Philippines. It is perhaps not so remarkable, in the expanse of the Ocean, that no islands in ...
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The first European immigrants did not intend to settle permanently in the Philippines. Spanish settlement proved transitory during the 400 years of Spain's colonial occupation. The first contact between Spain and the Philippines occurred in March of 1521, when Ferdinand Magellan's fleet reached the ...
Spanishcolonization The invasion of the Filipinos by Spain did not begin in earnest until 1564‚ when another expedition from New Spain‚ commanded by Miguel López de Legaspi‚ arrived. PermanentSpanishsettlement was not established until 1565 when an expedition led by Miguel López de Legazpi...
The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 was important because it saved England from a Spanish invasion. Queen Elizabeth I's reign had always been... Learn more about this topic: The Spanish Armada | History, Battles & Significance