1840 Governor General Francisco Alcala approves the plan to construct the Magellan Monument in Punta Engaño, Mactan. 1903 Act. No. 1020 of the Philippine Commission appropriates $20, 000 for the construction of a timber wharf in Cebu City. 1916 Birth in Cebu City of Sergio Osmeña Jr., Senator and long-time Cebu political leader.
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Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 October
“Modernizing the Bayot: The Bayot during the American Colonial Period” Mr. Francis Luis Torres ABSTRACT The arrival of the Americans in the Philippines introduced a relatively novel social order that modernized Cebuano culture and life. Emulating an American-centered ethos, Filipinos began to secularize and nationalize most of its social institutions, as reflected in the establishment […]