06 November, 1574
TODAY IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY
Rajah Lakandula, King of Tondo, in Luzon island, the Philippines, along with his uncle Rajah Soliman, leads an uprising protesting the Spaniards’ ill treatment of his compatriots during the early decades of Spanish colonization of the southeast Asian archipelago.
Three years earlier, Lakandula, who would be the last of the Filipino state kings, declared himself friend of Spain along with two fellow chieftains Laya and Sulayman following the Second Conquest of Manila by the colonizing pale-skinned Europeans. Lakandula would become an active early Spanish collaborator, to be used by Spain in pacifying the last independent settlements in the island of Luzon, including Lubao and Betis and in helping defend the Spanish settlements against the invasion of Chinese pirates led by Warlord Limahong.
(Ref: Philippine-island-lemuria; Photo from fil-gen-pro.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/lakan-genealogies-super-principalia.html)
