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López de Legazpi and his men sail the Pacific Ocean for ninety-three days.

They sight Guam in early 1565, claiming the island for Spain, and ...

...land in another of the the Mariana Islands to the north of Guam, where they briefly anchor and replenish their supplies, fight with Chamorro tribes, and leave several huts burned to the ground.

The Portuguese missionaries in Indonesia, having met with no success in the Muslim parts of the Malay archipelago, establish a successful mission at Lifão on the eastern part of Timor, whose Indo-Pacific aborigines are still pagan.

The Portuguese Christian communities established early in the sixteenth century on Ternate are nearly overrun in 1565 by the forces of the ruling Muslim sultan Hairun, whose disaffection has resulted from the rapacity of Portuguese sailors and administrators.

The arrival of a fleet from Goa saves the colonist from disaster, and peace is restored.

Bayinnaung brings the Siamese royal family as hostages to Pegu, his capital, burned in a Mon revolt in 1564.

He rebuilds Pegu on an even grander scale, making it one of the richest cities in Southeast Asia.

A patron of Buddhism, Bayinnaung builds pagodas, gives generous donations to monasteries, and maintains extensive diplomatic relations with the Sinhalese Buddhist Kingdom of Kandy on Ceylon.

Setthathirat I, sovereign of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang, had married a princess from Ayutthaya and formed a political alliance with the Thai against their common enemy, Burma.

Burmese forces now move west from Chiang Mai to invade laotian territory and besiege Vien Chan (now Vientiane), Setthathirat’s new capital, but withdraw from the area in 1565 the face of fierce and continuous Laotian resistance.

López de Legazpi's troops arrive in the Philippine archipelago and land on February 13, 1565 on the eastern shores of Cebu.

The island’s thriving port has long been visited by traders from various parts of Asia.

After a brief struggle with the natives, they leave the island for ...

...the nearby islands of Leyte and ...

...Camiguin.

His ships drift to ...

....the coast of Bohol on March 25 (March 16 in the Julian Calendar), 1565.

The island was first settled by Australoid people, like the rest of the Philippines, as evidenced by the artifacts dug at Mansasa, Tagbilaran, and in Dauis and Panglao.

Today known as the Eskaya tribe, they still inhabit the island; their population also was absorbed into the Austronesian or Malayo-Polynesian peoples who later settled the islands and form the majority of the population.

They are said to be the descendants of a group called pintados, “tattooed ones.”

The Austronesian people living on Bohol trade with other islands in the Philippines and as far as China and Borneo.

The earliest significant contact of the island with Spain occurs on when Miguel López de Legazpi arrives in Bohol seeking spices and gold.

After persuading the native chieftains that they are not Portuguese (who had raided the islands of Mactan in 1521), he makes a treaty with the ruler Datu Sikatuna, involving a blood compact between the two men. (This event, called the Sandugo ("one blood"), is today celebrated in Bohol every year during the Sandugo Festival. The Sandugo or blood compact is also depicted on Bohol's provincial flag and the Bohol provincial seal.)