Following the Battle of Bangkusay Channel

Quando

3 de jun. de 1571

Tipo

Evento

Coordenadas

14.60° N, 120.98° E

Posicionado em: area around the town it links, Manila.

Following the Battle of Bangkusay Channel, the conquest of the Kingdom of Maynila is complete; Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi makes Manila a city, and the capital of the Philippines.

1571 naval battle during the Spanish conquest of the Philippines

The Battle of Bangkusay, on June 3, 1571, was a naval engagement in Bangkusay Channel off the coast of Tondo that marked the last resistance by locals to the Spanish Empire's occupation and colonization of the Pasig River delta, which had been the site of the indigenous polities of the Rajahnate of Maynila and Tondo.

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