Spanish Missionary and Colonial Expansion in the Philippines in the 1620s

Name: Spanish Missionary and Colonial Expansion in the Philippines in the 1620s
Start: 1620
End: 1629

Type Event Region Southeast Asia Time 1620–1629

In the 1620s, Spain continued to advance control over unconverted regions of the Philippine Islands through a dual track of Catholic missionary order…

Timeline

1620–1623Luzon and the Visayan islands · PhilippinesFrom 1620 to 1623, missionaries of the various orders penetrated the Luzon interior and the Visayan islands, establishing new parishes, schools, and churches, bringing unconverted communities into the reducción (reduction) system, and spreading Catholicism in Spanish and local languages.
1624–1627Jurisdiction of the Governor-General of Manila · PhilippinesIn the mid-1620s, the colonial authorities tightened control over tribute, forced labor (polo y servicio), and church taxes in converted communities, and brought local chiefs into the Spanish system of grants, using administrative means to complement missionary expansion.
1627–1629Northern Mindanao (Zamboanga and elsewhere) · MindanaoIn the late 1620s, Spanish missionary and military outposts expanded into northern Mindanao, coming into friction with Muslim sultanates such as Sulu and Maguindanao, pushing the colonial and missionary frontier further south.

Sources

History of the Philippines (1521–1898) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_(1521%E2%80%931898)
Phelan, John Leddy. The Hispanization of the Philippines — John Leddy Phelan (1959)