Spanish prestige suffers irreparable damage because of…

1684 CE to 1827 CE

Spanish prestige suffers irreparable damage because of the defeat at British hands.

A number of rebellions break out, of which the most notable is that of Diego Silang in the Ilocos area of northern Luzon.

In December 1762, Silang expels the Spanish from the coastal city of Vigan and sets up an independent government.

He establishes friendly relations with the British and is able to repulse Spanish attacks on Vigan, but he is assassinated in May 1763.

The Spanish, tied down by fighting with the British and the rebels, are unable to control the raids of the Moros of the south on the Christian communities of the Visayan Islands and Luzon.

Thousands of Christian Filipinos are captured as slaves, and Moro raids continue to be a serious problem through the remainder of the century.

The Chinese community, resentful of Spanish discrimination, for the most part enthusiastically supports the British, providing them with laborers and armed men who fight de Anda in Pampanga.

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Vigan Ilocos Sur Philippines View →

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Diego Silang View → Simón de Anda y Salazar View →

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Negrito View → Igorot people View → Malays, Ethnic View → Islam View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Augustinians, or Order of St. Augustine View → Franciscans, or Order of St. Francis View → Dominicans, or Order of St. Dominic View → Moro people View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View → Spaniards (Latins) View → Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus View → Philippines, Spanish colony of the View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View →

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Colonization of Asia, Spanish View → Seven Years' War View → Manila, British occupation of View →

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Textiles View → Strategic metals View → Money View →

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Commerce View → Watercraft View → Conflict View → Faith View → Government View →

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