SIGNIFICANT DATES AND EVENTS:

c. 1200 A.D. - Lutaos from northern Mindanao arrived and established

themselves in the strait between mainland Bohol and the island of
Panglao and founded the “Kingdom of Dapitan”, a maritime on stilts that later rose to such aheight of power and
prosperity it was described by Alcina as a “Venice of the East.”

c. 1563 - The Dapitan Kingdom was abandoned in fear of the marauding

Ternateans and their Portuguese allies who wrought depredations
on the other settlements in Bohol.

1565 - Miguel Lopez de Legaspi and his men landed in a little bay in
Bohol and having befriended the local chieftain, Datu Sikatuna,
proceeded to make a treaty of friendship with him called the Blood Compact.

November 17, 1596 - Two Jesuit priests, Fr. Juan de Torres and Fr. Gabriel Sanchez,
arrived in Baclayon at the invitation of the mother of the
encomendero of Bohol, Doña Catalina de Bolaños, and started
the process of evangelization.

October 26, 1600 - The Moro War arrived in Bohol with the raid on Baclayon by 300
Maguidanao Moros under the command of Datu Sali and Datu
Sirongan. Fearing for their safety, the Jesuits decided to move
their headquarters to the inland town of Loboc. From this time,
Loboc became the Residencia Boholana, or the place where the local Jesuit superior resided.

1602 - Loboc became the first parish in the island.

1604 - The Jesuits established the Seminario Colegio de Indios in Loboc,

a training school for the children of the local ruling class. Among the students of this school was the native
boy, Miguel Ayatumo, who died in the odor of sanctity at the age of sixteen in 1609.

1622 - The babaylan leader Tamblot revolted against the new religion
brought by the Spanish missionaries.

c. 1733 - The Jesuits had established six settlements or reducciones where

people were forced to live to facilitate both Christianization and
taxation. These reducciones are Loboc, Baclayon, Jagna,
Talibon, Inabanga and Maribojoc.

1744 - Francisco Dagohoy from the reduccion of Inabanga started the

revolt that was to last more than eighty years.

1768 - The Jesuits were expelled from the country. Their missions were
taken over by the Augustinian Recollects headed by their former
Provincial, Fray Pedro de Santa Barbara.

c. 1800 - The Augustinian Recollects had established other towns in Bohol,

as Tagbilaran, Dimiao, Guindulman, Panglao and Loon.

August 28, 1829 - Upon orders of Gov. Gen. Mariano Ricafort, an expeditionary
force from Cebu led by Capt. Manuel Sanz captured the Cave of
Caylagan where the remnants of Francisco Dagohoy’s rebel forces made their last stand. The survivors of the final
assault were pardoned and resettled in newly created townships in the interior
parts of Bohol.

July 22, 1854 - Bohol became a separate province from Cebu. The town of Tagbilaran was
designated as cabicera, and Col. Guillermo Kirkpatrick was named first
Alcalde Mayor. To prepare for this development, new structures were raised
in the town, such as the Casa Tribunal which was finished in 1860, to house
the new bureaucracy. In 1861, Bohol reverted back to the
jurisdiction of Cebu, but three years later, its status was reaffirmed by the
colonial government.

April, 1899 - Upon the departure of the Spaniards in Bohol, a “Gobierno de

Canton” was formed by prominent Boholanos to run the province
according to the Republic proclaimed by Emilio Aguinaldo.
March 17, 1900 - American troops landed in Bohol

September 3, 1900 - Col. Pedro Samson and other Boholano leaders rose in organized
resistance against the Americans. What followed was months of
bloodshed fought between the American forces and the Boholano
freedom-fighters. Within this dark period, hundreds of Boholanos died and 20 of the 35 towns of Bohol at the time
were burned to the ground and livestock were slaughtered indiscriminately in the
effort to force the Boholanos to submission.
December 23, 1901 - Col. Pedro Samson and the rest of the Boholano insurgents
surrendered to the Americans in the peace treaty signed in the convent of Dimiao. Peace came to Bohol at last, but
not after hundreds more died the following year due to the cholera
epidemic that followed the great war.

May 17, 1942 - Japanese forces landed in Tagbilaran. They stayed until March,
1945 when American liberation forces arrived.