* Araw ng Kagitingan, also known as " Bataan Day " ( Philippines ) – April 9

* Day of Valour, also known as the " Bataan Day " ( the Philippines )

Abu Sayyaf (;, ASG, ) also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya is one of several military Islamist separatist groups based in and around the southern Philippines, in Bangsamoro ( Jolo and Basilan ), where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have been engaged in an insurgency for an independent province in the country.

Other such breast mountains are Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, Beinn Chìochan and the Maiden Paps in Scotland, the " Bundok ng Susong Dalaga " ( Maiden's breast mountains ) in Talim Island, Philippines, the twin hills known as the Paps of Anu ( Dá Chích Anann or the breasts of Anu ), near Killarney in Ireland, the 2, 086 m high Tetica de Bacares or " La Tetica " in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain, and Khao Nom Sao in Thailand, Cerro Las Tetas in Puerto Rico and the Breasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos, among many others.

The reign of Alfonso XIII ( 1886 – 1931 ) saw the Spanish-American War of 1898, culminating in the loss of the Philippines plus Spain's last colonies in the Americas, Cuba and Puerto Rico ; the " Great War " in Europe ( now known as World War I, 1914 – 1918 ), although Spain maintained neutrality throughout the conflict ; the influenza pandemic nicknamed the Spanish Flu ( 1918 – 1919 ); and the Rif War in Morocco ( 1920 – 1926 ).

This led Herbert Hoover to appoint two commissions, including one headed by a former US governor of the Philippines William Cameron Forbes, which criticized the exclusion of Haitians from positions of authority in the government and constabulary, now known as the Garde d ' Haïti.

* Independence Day in the Philippines until 1962 ; now known as Filipino-American Friendship Day July 4

* 1571 – La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines was founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomienda / province in the country.

The machine became known popularly in the Philippines as Minus-One ( named after the subtracted vocal channel when turned down ).

This includes one of only two known cyprinid species flocks ( the other, from Lake Lanao in the Philippines, has been decimated by introduced species ), which consists of fifteen relatively large, up to long, Labeobarbus barbs.

In China, the claim that Mao had " adapted Marxism – Leninism to Chinese conditions " evolved into the idea that he had updated it in a fundamental way applying to the world as a whole ; consequently, the term " Marxism – Leninism – Mao Zedong Thought " ( commonly known as Maoism ) was increasingly used to describe the official Chinese state ideology as well as the ideological basis of parties around the world who sympathized with the Communist Party of China ( such as the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist – Leninist / Mao Zedong Thought, founded by Jose Maria Sison in 1968 ).

The largest pearl known was found in the Philippines in 1934 and is known as the Pearl of Lao Tzu.

In The Philippines, traditional large swords known as the Kampilan and the Panabas were used in combat by the natives.

The 2001 attacks were preceded by the less well known Bojinka plot which was planned in the Philippines by Ramzi Yousef ( of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ) and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

* Ginger root can be made into an herbal tea, known in the Philippines as salabat

In the Philippines it is known as a kawali and also called a " wadjang ".

There is also a strong tradition in the Philippines where it is also known as sarswela / sarsuela.

Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade — Acapulco — shipped out 150, 000 to 345, 000 kg ( 4 to 9 million taels ) of silver annually from this year to 1602.

* April 28 – The Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario is established in Manila, the Philippines ( later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, now known as the University of Santo Tomas ).

In the Philippines, the plantain inflorescence ( particularly those from Saba Bananas ), locally known as Puso ng Saging ( Banana hearts ) are eaten.

As a consequence of colonial European trade patterns, most of the known European-based creole languages arose in the equatorial belt around the world and in areas with access to the oceans, including the coastal regions of the Americas, western Africa, Goa and along the west coast of India, and along the coast of Southeast Asia up to Indonesia, Macau, the Philippines, Malaysia, Seychelles and Oceania.

In the Philippines, like in Central America, the sweet potato is known as camote ( alternatively spelled as kamote ).

* In the Philippines, ginger is known as luya and is used as a throat lozenge in traditional medicine to relieve sore throat.

It is one of the best known fruits of Southeast Asia and is also widely cultivated elsewhere in the tropics including Africa, the Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Panama, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka ; it is also produced in Ecuador where it is known as " achotillo " and on the island of Puerto Rico .. Thailand is the largest producer from Surat Thani Province Thailand.

* Maranatha Christian Academy, a Marikina ( Philippines )- based Christian school, now called as the National Christian Life College

There are also the IEMELIF Reform Movement ( IRM ), The Wesleyan ( Pilgrim Holiness ) Church of the Philippines, the Philippine Bible Methodist Church, Inc., the Pentecostal Free Methodist Church, Inc., the Fundamental Christian Methodist Church, The Reformed Methodist Church, Inc., The Methodist Church of the Living Bread, Inc., and the Wesley Evangelical Methodist Church & Mission, Inc.

In East Timor, one of the two predominately Christian nations in southeast Asia ( the Philippines being the other ), for some, the roof of the house is reserved for gods and spirits of ancestors, the lower portion remains for the nature spirit and usually occupied by animals, and the cock is admired because of courage and perseverance, with the courage of a man compared with that of the cock, with the cockfight occurring regularly and “ many tais designs include the cock ”.

* Pasig Christian Academy, a school located in Caniogan, Pasig City, Philippines

In 1578, the Spanish took Sulu and in April attacked and captured Brunei itself, after demanding that the sultan cease proselytizing in the Philippines and, in turn, allow Christian missionaries to be active in his kingdom.

The Moro pirates of the southern Philippines harassed Spanish shipping and terrorized Christian Filipino settlements.

In many countries with a strong Christian tradition such as Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, the countries of the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, the day is observed as a public or federal holiday.

Christian Japanese refugees who came to the Philippines during the Edo period brought along miso soup, but the Filipino recipe differs mainly by the inclusion of tamarind, which gives it a more sour taste than the original Japanese version.

* Christian Compassion Ministries, a mission organisation in the Philippines

* Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd Church of God in union with the Christian United Church-based in Dasmarinas City, Cavite Philippines.

* Asian School of Christian Ministries ( ASCM ) in Manilla, Philippines

* Bacolod Christian Center, a preschool in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines

* Christ's Commission Fellowship, an non-denominational Evangelical Christian church based in the Philippines

The Philippine Independent Church ( officially, IFI, Ilocano: Siwawayawaya nga Simbaan ti Filipinas,, Kinaray-a: Simbahan Hilway nga Pilipinhon ; also known as the Philippine Independent Catholic Church ) is a Christian denomination of the Catholic tradition in the form of a national church in the Philippines.

The Philippine Independent Church is currently the second-largest Christian denomination in the Philippines after the Roman Catholic Church.

Category: Christian denominations founded in the Philippines

Iglesia ni Cristo ( Tagalog for Church of Christ ) also known as INC, is the largest entirely indigenous Christian church in the Philippines, and the largest religious organization that originated from the Philippine Islands and the largest independent Christian Church in Asia.

Category: Christian missionaries in the Philippines

In the Philippines, the EUB congregations joined the Philippine Methodist Church, Christian Church ( Disciples ), Presbyterian Church, Congregational Church, Iglesia Evangelica Unida de Cristo, Iglesia Evangelica Nacional and some segments of the Iglesia Evangelica Metodista En Las Islas Filipinas ( IEMELIF ) to formed the United Church of Christ in the Philippines.