PAMPANGA REVOLT • Leaders: Agustin de Legazpi, Magat

 Year: 1585 Salamat (son of Lakandula), Martin Pangan

 Place: Pampanga (gobernadorcillo of Tondo), Juan
 Leaders: Kapampangan leaders Banal (Tondo Chief), Pedro Balingit (Chief
 Result: Failed of Pandacan),
 Cause: Disgrunted by the way the Esteban Taes (Chief of Bulacan),
encomenderos administered who had Pitonggatan (Chief of Tondo),
deprived them of their historical inheritances as Felipe Salonga (Chief of Polo), Geronimo
tribal chiefs or Datus,
Basi (Brother of
 Some people, Kapampangan leaders connived
Agustin de Legazpi)
with the people of
Manila and Borneans to rise revolt.
Cause: Regain the lost freedom.
 People plan to secretly enter the city of Manila Attempting to restore freedom and local
one dark night leadership being
and massacre the Spaniards. enjoyed during the pre-colonial years.
Agustin de Legazpi, Martin Pangan, Magat
 Conspiracy was foiled before it even started Salamat, Juan banal, Esteban Taes, Pedro
after a Filipino woman married to a Spanish Balinguit, Pitonggatan, Felipe
soldier reported the plot to the Spanish Salonga, Geronimo Basi, planned to
authorities. overthrow the Spanish
rulers in the country.
 Governor- • Through a Japanese Christian, Dionisio
General Fernandez, Agustin de
Santiago Legazpi and his fellow conspirator
de Vera
contracted a Japanese sea
sent
captain, Juan Gayo, to get arms and
Spanish and
Filipino Japanese warriors to fight
colonial the Spaniards.
troops and
arrest the  In exchange, he and his Japanese warriors
leaders of would be given one-half of the tribute
the revolts. collected in Philippines. Aside from this,
help would also be secured from Borneo,
Laguna, and Batangas.
The conspirators with their warriors would
then assault the
City of Manila and start killing the
Spaniards.

Betrayal starts:
 Christian Cruz-Herrera was the one who Magat Salamat innocently revealed the plan
executed the leaders without any fair trial. to Antonio Surabao, a Cuyo native
pretending to be a supporter.
TONDO CONSPIRACY • Surabao later recounted this to his master,
Year: 1577 - 1588 Pedro Sarmiento.
Other names: Conspiracy of Maharlikas • October 26, 1588 - Sarmiento rushed to
Place: Tondo; Cuyo; Calamianes Manila and informed Governor General
Result: Failed
Santiago de Vera.
•He ordered the arrest of all the persons • During the rule of Governor-General Francisco
implicated in the revolutionary plot. de Tello de Guzman, Magalat and his brother
instigated the people of Cagayan to rise in arms
against the colonial government.
• The uprising was suppressed by the authorities;
Magalat and his men were kept exiles.
Dominican Missionaries of Cagayan persuaded
the Governor to pardon them, after knowing the
plight of the two brothers. The favor was
subsequently granted.
• After Magalat was released, he went back to
Cagayan and incited the people to continue to
fight.
Many Spaniards and loyal natives were killed by
the rebels.
Governador Tello sent Capt. Pedro de Chaves to
quell the revolt.

IGOROT REVOLT
Year: 1601
Place: Norther Luzon
Result: Failed
Cause: Demand for Religious toleration
• Governor-General Tello - ordered an
expedition to Cordillera region for religious
conversion purposes with the aid of Padre
Esteban Marin.
• Marin - the curate of llocos at that time, tried
initially to convince the Igorots to convert
peacefully to Catholicisim.
He was allegedly tried to create his own
dictionary in the Igorot language to advance the
cause Igorots killed Marin. Gobernardo-General
sent Captain Aranda with Spanish and Lumad
foot soldiers.
• The revolt was short-lived as Aranda made use
of extreme measures and executed them quickly
to dispel the revolt in Cordillera Region.

Including Dionisio Fernandez, a Japanese

interpreter.

MAGALAT'S REVOLT
Year: 1596
Place: Cagayan
Result: Failed
Leader: Magalat (a rebel from Cagayan)
Cause: Abuses of tribute collectors.
 Cause: Desire to abandon Christianity and return to old
religious faith
• 1596 - The Jesuits first came to Bohol and eventually
governed the island and converted the Boholanos to the
Catholic faith
Tamblot - a babaylan or native priest, urged his fellow
Boholanos to return to the old belief of their forefathers.
GADDANG
REVOLT
Year: 1621 – 1622
Place: Cagayan Valley
Result: Failed
Leaders: Felipe
Cutabay, Gabriel
Dayag
Cause: Oppression of
Spanish officials
The Gaddangs revolted to the encomenderos and
government officials.
Father Pedro de Santo Tomas - a Dominican
Missionary convinced the 2 rebel leaders to surrender
peacefully along with the other missionaries.
• He succeeded in convincing the Gaddangs to lay down
their arms.

TAMBLOT'S REVOLT
Year: 1622
Place: Bohol
Result: Failed
Leaders: Babaylan Tamblot
•The revolt began on the day when the Jesuits were in
Cebu, celebrating the feast day of St. Francis Xavier.
• January 1, 1622 - Tamblot was executed and his head
was severed on a pike to serve as a warning to the
populace.

BANCAO'S REVOLT
Year: 1622
Other names: Bankaw Revolt
Place: Leyte
Result: Failed
Leaders: Bancao (Datu of Carigara), Babaylan Pagali
Cause: Desire for religious toleration
• Bancao had warmly received Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
as his guest, when he first arrived in the Philippines in
1565.
Although baptized as a Catholic in his youth, he
abandoned this faith in later years. With a babaylan
Pagali, he built a temple for a diwata or local goddess,
and pressed six towns to rise up in revolt.
Governor-General Alonso Faiardo de Entenza sent the
alcalde mayor of Cebu, Juan de Alcarazo, with Spanish
and foot soldier colonial troops to suppress the rebellion.
•Bancao's severed head was impaled on a bamboo stake
and displayed to the public as a stern warning.

With the help of a native babaylan named Pagali, he

built a temple for the local diwata and convinced six
other towns to rise in revolt. Pagali used magic to attract
followers and claimed
that they could turn the
Spaniards into clay by
hurling bits of the earth at
them.
LADIA'S REVOLT MANIAGO'S REVOLT
Year: 1643 Year: 1660 - 1661
Place: Malolos, Bulacan; Southern Luzon Other names: Pampanga Revolt
Result: Failed Place: Bacolor, Pampanga
Leaders: Pedro Ladia Result: Failed
Cause: Weariness from Spanish oppression Leaders: Francisco Maniago, Andres Malong
• Pedro Ladia - was a Moro Bornean and self-claimed Cause: Failure of officials to pay for rice purchased;
descendant of Lakandula who came to Malolos in 1643. repeated requirements for personal services for cutting of
At that time, his land was confiscated by the Spanish and timber; services for cutting of timber; services for
he thought that it was about time that they stage an galleon trade
uprising and put himself as the King of the Tagalogs. •The fight soon began and because the Spaniards were
•Upon his capture, he was brought to Manila where he busy fighting against the Dutch, they were badly
was executed. depleted by the Kapampangans.
After cutting Father Garcia's body into pieces, they fed The Maniago revolt was the start of a much bigger and
his flesh to a herd of pigs. even bloodier revolt in Pangasinan
• They compelled their fellow Itnegs to loot, desecrate This battle was led by a man named Andres Malong who
Catholic images, set fire to the local churches, and had heeded the call of Maniago to revolt against the
escape with them to the mountains. Spaniards.
•Governor-General Fernando de Silva - sent Spanish and
foot soldier colonial troops to suppress the rebellion
They destroyed farms and other sources of food to starve
the Itnegs, and forced them to surrender.
MALONG'S REVOLT
Year: 1660 - 1661
Other names: Pangasinan Revolt
Place: Binalatongan, Pangasinan
Result: Failed
Leaders: Andres Malong, Pedro Cumapos
Cause: Quarrel between Fr. Crospe and Malong.
• Andres Malong - was the maestro de campo of
Binalatongan, now San Carlos City, Pangasinan in
1660s.
•He assisted many Spaniards in governing different
towns in Pangasinan, had learned and was trained to use
force and cruelty.
Hoped to become the King of the province.
•His plan to be the King of the province was set aside
when Francisco Maniago led a war that broke out in
Pampanga.
He started his campaign in a small barangay called
Malunguey, but failed.
•Having the same condition as in Pampanga, he led the
people in Pangasinan to take up arms against the
Spaniards. It spread like wild fire in Pangasinan

ILOCOS REVOLT
Year: 1661 DAGOHOY'S REVOLT
Other names: Almazan Revolt Year: 1744 - 1828
Place: San Nicolas; Bacarra; Laoag Other names: Dagohoy's Rebellion
Place: Bohol
Result: Failed Result: Failed
Leaders: Juan Magsanop, Pedro Almazan, Gaspar Leaders: Francisco Dagohoy
Cristobal Cause: Refusal of Fr: Morales to bury the body of
Cause: A part of the chain to the Malong Revolt. The Dagohoy's brother in consecrated ground.
letters sent by Don Andres Malong narrating the defeat His brother died after a duel and local parish priest
refused to give his brother a proper Chrisitan burial,
since dueling is a sin.

The refusal of the priest to give his brother a proper

Christian burial eventually led to the longest revolt ever
held in Philippine history: 85 years.

of the
Spaniards in his area and urging other provinces to rise
in arms failed to obtain any support among the natives.
During the revolt, Don Pedro Almazan proclaimed
himself "King of Ilocos," but was later captured
and executed.
This also led to the establishment of a free Boholano
government.
•Twenty governors-general, from Juan Arrechederra to
Manuel Ricafort Palacin y Ararca, failed to stop the
revolt. Ricafort himself sent a force of 2,200 troops to
Bohol, which was defeated by Dagohoy's followers.
Another attack, also sent by Ricafort in 1828 and 1829,
failed as well.

Dagohoy died two years before the revolt ended, though,

which led to the end of the revolt in 1829.
• Some 19,000 survivors were granted pardon and were
eventually allowed to live in new Boholano villages:
namely, the present-day towns of Balilihan, Batuan,
Bilar (Vilar), Catigbian and Sevilla (Cabulao).

SILANG REVOLT
Year: 1762 - 1763
Place: Ilocos
Result: Failed
Leaders: Diego and Gabriela Silang
Cause: Desire to expel the Spaniards.
• December 1472

Diego Silang declared the

independence of Ilocandia, naming the state "Free
llocos" and proclaimed Vigan the capital of this newly-
independent state. The British heard about this revolt in
Manila and even asked the help of Silang in fighting the
Spanish.
May 28, 1763 - Diego Silang was killed by Miguel
Vicos, a friend of Silang.

• The Spanish authorities paid for his murder, leading to

his death in the arms of his wife, Gabriela.
She continued her husband's struggle, earning the title
"Joan of Arc of the Ilocos" because of her many victories
in battle.

September 10, 1763 - The revolt ended with the defeat

of the llocanos. Gabriela Silang was executed by Spanish
authorities in Vigan.
 Result: Failed
Leaders: Juan de la Cruz (Palaris), Colet (Palaris'
brother), Andres Lopez, Juan Vera Oncantin
Cause: Demand for reforms, especially the exhange of
local officials:

This was to push the government to fulfill the petitions

of the people. They went to Andres Melendez who was
at that time the head of the friars in Lingayen presenting
the following petitions of the people.

The return of the taxes paid by the people for the year
1762.

Filipinos sent to Mindanao to fight against the Moros

should not be charged with taxes;
The four persons that guard the prisoner should wear
Polo so as to show that they are not working for free;
That the schoolmaster of the all-boys school was to be
stripped of his position because of his slyness;
•Don Joaquin Gamboa should be removed from his
office as the alcalde-mayor of the province;

Andres Lopez, a native was must be granted

permanence as the Master-of-Camp of the province and
henceforth, this position must be made exclusive to the
citizens of Binalatongan

•February 26, 1765 - While in detention, he confessed

being the principal leader of the revolt. He was
convicted and hanged.

PALARIS' REVOLT
Year: 1762 - 1764
Place: Pangasinan
 Tapar a native of the island of Panay, wanted to establish
a religious cult in the town of Oton.

He attracted some followers with his stories about his

frequent conversations with a demon.

Tapar and his men were killed in a bloody skirmish

against Spanish and colonial foot soldier troops and their
corpses were impaled on stakes.

PANAY REVOLT
Year: 1663
Place: Oton, Panay
Result: Failed
Leader: Tapar
Cause: Desire to put up a modified form of Christianity.
DABAO REVOLT large sum of money in exchange of Sumuroy's head. The
Year: 1650 rebels sent him the head of a pig instead.
Place: Northern Mindanao
Result: Failed In July 1650, under cover of darkness and rainfall, the
Leader: Dabao - Manobo Chieftain government forces staged an assault on the natives' fort.
Cause: Controversial Decree to Send Carpenters to the The rebels were caught by surprise. Sumuroy's mother
Cavite Shipyard. perished in the battle. The revolt ended with individual
surrenders. The rebels themselves killed Sumuroy and
Dabao allowed himself to be baptized to the Catholic brought his head to the Spanish commander.
faith. He convinced some new converts to join him in his
plan to kill the religious and all the Spanish soldiers in
the fort.

He offered himself to catch them. He took his men to act

as prisoners. Just when the men were going to be set in
the stocks for their punishment, Dabao attacked the
captain and the supposed prisoners joined him by taking
out their concealed weapons. All Spaniards in the
garrison were killed.

Irraya Revolt
Year: 1621
Place: Northern Isabela Cagayan Valley
Result: Failed
Leader: Gabriel Dayag, Felix Catubay
Cause: Oppression of Spanish Officials

Led by Gabriel Dayag and Felix Catabay of Isabela

resisted against the abusive Spanish officials

Killed Encomienderos and Spanish officials-Fr. Pedro de

Santo Tomas persuaded the two and live peacefully.

Sumuroy's Revolt
Year: 1649-50
Place: Samar
Result: Failed
Leader: Juan Sumuroy
Cause: Forced Labor

Under Juan Sumuroy's leadership, the people of Palapag,

Samar rose in arms against the government. They
resented Governor Diego Fajardo's order, which involved
the sending of men to Cavite shipyards. Hostilities began
on June 1,1649, with the killing of the curate of the
town.

The revolt spread to Albay and Camarines, Cebu,

Masbate, Camiguin, and as far as Northern Mindanao.
Sumuroy won several victories over the Spanish-Filipino
forces. At one time, the Spanish commander offered a