Browsing category Chronology

Bacarra is officially recognized as a municipality; D. Manuel Paras, first gobernadorcillo [Cadiz]

Piddig is founded [Keesing, de los Reyes]

Vintar is founded [Keesing, de los Reyes]

Two irrigation canals are constructed in Bacarra under the direction of Fray Aniceto Serges, parish priest during these years [Galende, Hernandez, de los Reyes]

Women of Batac stage a protest against the parish priest, Fernando Rey, who banned their bathing naked in the river [Cadiz]

Bangui fights off a raid by Muslims who speak Iloco. This implies that the raiders had bases along the Ilocano coastline [de los Reyes]

Cholera wreaks havoc in some towns [Aurelio]

First known gobernadorcillo of Badoc is D. Diego Rubio [de los Reyes]

Silang Revolt. Towns in Ilocos Norte are burned and pillaged. The Spanish victory over Silang is later commemorated in paintings which used to hang in the Laoag convento [de los Reyes]

Manuel Alvarez, reporting on the Banna mission, mentions Paor as the nearest Christian rancheria, and Uguis as a settlement of infidels. Paor and Uguis are now barrios of the present Nueva Era [Keesing]