Bangsamoro

Historical Timeline

BC

6810

Early Civilization 6810 - 3190 B.C.

AD

800AD - 1365

Indian Link and Influences

800 - 1365

What the Muslims Learned from Their Long Interaction with the Chinese

Further Spread to Luzon and Visayas

982

1270-1275

Arrival and Spread of Islam in the Sulu Archipelago 1270-1275

1300

AD 1370

Map of Mindanao in Asia

1300

Islam’s Further Spread to Maguindanao and Lanao Areas

1400

1405

Islam Moves North

1450

Legacy of Islam in Luzon and the Visayas

The Papal Bull of 1493 issued by Pope Alexander VI was a document that authorized the Spanish government to colonize, enslave and spread Catholicism using force if necessary. It was here when the Philippines was subjugated and brought under Spanish Crown, while the Muslims in the south fought to remain free.

The Papal Bull of 1493

1500

1543

First military victory of Buayan’n in Sarangani against the Villalobos Expedition of imperial Spain

June 1572

The Battle of Bangkusay between the young Macabebe Chief Tariq Sulayman and Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in June 1572. (by Dan H. Dizon in Center for Kampampangan Studies, Holy Angel University. Photo was provided by Ian Alfonso)

1578

Governor Francisco de Sande sent invasion troops in Brunei in and in Jolo and Magindanaw (Maguindanao), all but doomed into oblivion except for Brunei were de Sande occupied the Sultanate for a few months only after his Spanish and Indio (later Filipino) colonial troops were decimated by an herb-borne plague.

MAY 23, 1578


1578-1596 Second Stage of the Moro War

1578-1596

Expedition headed by Captain Gabriel de Ribera

1579

Invasion of the Rajahnate (Kerajaan) of Bwayan

April 25, 1596

1600

1600 - 1900

Sultanato ng Maguindanao at Pat a Pongampong ng Ranao
Maguindanao Treaty

September 8, 1605

Buayan-Spanish Treaty

March 1, 1609

1617

Datu Aceh: The Famed Warrior Earning the Wrath of Spanish Conquistadores

1627

Raja Bongsu: The Beginning of an Epic Battle

1638

The Epic Battle: Four-Month Siege of Jolo

Maguindanao Second Treaty

March 1639

Qudarat-Lopez Treaty

June 24, 1645

Bongsu-Lopez Treaty

April 14, 1646

Death of Qudarat

1671

The Capture of Lamitan Town

March 13, 1637

1700

The Sultan of Borneo made a cession of the north part of Borneo from Keemanees northward, with the island of Palawan, Banguey, Balambangan, etc to the Sooloos (Sulu).

1704

Cession of Balabak area in Palawan

1705

Sultan Bayan ul-Anwar capitulations of 1719

1719

Sultan Pakir Maulana Kamza Treaty

1734


1735-1775

The Intriguing Story of Sulu Sultan ‘Azim ud-Din

1753

Sultan Mu‘izz ud-Din Sought Support from Chinese Emperor Against Spaniards
1775 Trade Agreement

1775

1789 and 1794 Treaties

1789 and 1794

1800

1805 Treaty of Alliance

November 4, 1805

Sultan Maitum Resuscitated the 212 Years (1619-1831) Eclipsed of the Rajahnate of Buayan

1831

1837 Treaty

1837

Treaty of Datu Dakula

May 20, 1843

Treaty Amity and Commerce

May 15, 1845

1850

Urbiztondo and the Friendship Treaty With Sulu
1861 Capitulations

1861

Peace Treaty 1875

1875

Treaty of Friendship

June 14, 1875


Buayan Capitulations

1887

Act of Adhesion

1888

Act of Conciliation

1888

Invasion of Maguindanao

January 1889

Invasion of Marawi

1895

June 12, 1898

America’s Manifest Destiny and the 1898 Mock Battle of Manila Bay

December 10, 1898

Treaty of Paris and the American Occupation of the Philippines

1899

The 1899 Kiram-Bates Agreement

1900

LUMAD ETHNOLINGUISTIC GROUPS, TRADITIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS IN MINDANAO, CIRCA 1900

1900

Meranaw-American War 1902-1916

1902-1916

1901

Western Secular Education: America’s Tool for Colonization
Bangsamoro (Moro) lands were opened to settlers

1902

Creation of the MORO PROVINCE (1903-1913): The U.S. Instrument of Direct Rule

June 1, 1903

1903 - 1906

Panglima Hassan Uprising and the Battle of Bud Dahu

1903-1905

The Pursuit of Datu Ali in Cotabato
Muslim leaders convened in Zamboanga in 1910 to declare their protest against inclusion in the unification plan. Photo source: Bangsamoro News Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=536525953218449&set=pcb.536526363218408

1910

Protestest Against Americans
Creation of Colonies

1912

1913

Battle of Bud Bagsak
DEPARTMENT OF MINDANAO SULU

MARCH 13, 1914 - FEBRUARY 5, 1920

Sulu Petition to U.S. Government

1921

1933

The Sultan of Sulu Has His Own Flag
Dansalan Declaration

1935

Japanese Imperial Army Invasion of Mindanao

December 8, 1941

July 04, 1946

1946 Philippine Independenc: A Separate People in a New Nation

1948

1948 Kamlun Uprising
Resettlement - Republic of the Philippines

1949-1954

1961

Congress Bill for Sulu Independence
Resettlement - Part of RP Land Reform

1963-1971

1968

The 1968 Mindanao Independence Movement (MIM)

1972

JABIDAH, MISUARI, AND THE MORO NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (MNLF)

September 24, 1972

The Martial Law and All Out War in Mindanao and Sulu

February 07, 1974

Battle of Jolo

December 23, 1976

The Tripoli Agreement

1976

Ustadz Salamat Hashim and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)

February 4, 1977

President Marcos’ Reconstruction and Reforms

1984

The Pat a Pengampong ko Ranaw

February 25, 1986

President Corazon Aquino and the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao
The Rise of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)

1991

September 02, 1996

The 1996 Final Peace Agreement

2000

March 21, 2000

Estrada’s All Out War Against MILF

2001

ARROYO’S ALL OUT PEACE

2011

President Aquino’s Bangsamoro Basic Law and the Crises of Peace Talks

2015

MAMASAPANO INCIDENT – BBL Died with SAF 44

2016

President Duterte’s War and Peace Efforts

2017

The Birth of Maute-ASG Alliance and the 2017 Marawi Siege

July 26, 2018

President Duterte and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)

September 15, 2022

BBM UNITY
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