Manila Galleon Trade

Name: Manila Galleon Trade
Start: 1661
End: 1670

Type Event Region Philippines Time 1661–1670

In the 1660s, Spanish colonial authorities continued the Acapulco–Manila galleon route, using the Philippines as a hub to import American silver into…

Timeline

1661–1665Manila · ManilaChinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian merchants converged on Manila, exchanging silver for Chinese silk, porcelain, and other goods, while the Spanish colonial authorities controlled port trade through a licensing system.
1666–1670Pacific route (Acapulco–Manila) · AsiaSpanish galleons crossed the Pacific from Acapulco, Mexico to Manila, carrying American silver and European goods, and returned with East Asian commodities, sustaining the transoceanic commercial cycle.

Sources

The Manila Galleon — William Lytle Schurz (1939)
The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565–1815 — Peter Gordon & Juan José Morales (2017)