LABOR DAY 1521 The remnants of the Magellan expedition hurriedly leave Cebu in the wake of the death of Ferdinand Magellan in Mactan and the attempted massacre of Spanish crew members by Cebuanos. 1913 The first issue of Kauswagan (1913-1915), a Cebu newspaper published and edited by J.R. Flynn Anderson, hits the streets.
Tag: 2024 December

Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 December
“Seizing the Momentum: The Communist Resistance in Cebu during the Anti-Marcos Struggle, 1972–1986” Mr. Karlo Mikhail I. Mongaya ABSTRACT: The talk makes use of archival material and oral narratives to retrieve the history of the communist resistance to the Marcos regime in Cebu from 1972 to 1986, focusing on one of the Philippines’ major urban […]