18th Century
| Year | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1701 | December 8 | Domingo Zabálburu de Echevarri appointed Governor-General (1701–1709). |
| 1709 | August 25 | Martín de Urzua y Arismendi appointed Governor-General (1709–1715). |
| 1715 | February 4 | Jose Torralba appointed Governor-General (1715–1717) by the Audiencia Real. |
| 1717 | August 9 | Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda appointed Governor-General (1717–1719). |
| 1718 | Rivera Revolt (1718) | |
| 1719 | October 11 | Archbishop Francisco de la Cuesta of Manila becomes acting Governor-General (1719–1721). |
| Caragay Revolt (1719) | ||
| 1721 | August 6 | Toribio José Cosio y Campo appointed Governor-General (1721–1729). |
| 1722 | Colegio de San Jose conferred with the title Royal. | |
| 1729 | August 14 | Fernándo Valdés y Tamon appointed Governor-General (1729–1739). |
| 1739 | July | Gaspar de la Torre appointed Governor-General (1739–1745). |
| 1744 | Dagohoy Rebellion (1744–1829) | |
| 1745 | September 21 | Archbishop Juan Arrechederra of Manila becomes acting Governor-General (1745–1750). |
| Agrarian Revolt (1745–1746) | ||
| 1750 | July 20 | Jose Francisco de Obando y Solis appointed Governor-General (1750–1754). |
| 1754 | 15 May | Mt Taal emits magma and destroys the towns of Lipa, Sala, Tanauan and Talisay. |
| July 26 | Pedro Manuel de Arandia Santisteban appointed Governor-General (1754–1759). | |
| 1759 | June | Miguel Lino de Ezpeleta appointed Governor-General (1759–1761). |
| 1761 | July | Archbishop Manuel Rojo del Rio y Vieyra of Manila Manilaappointed Governor-General (1761–1762). |
| 1762 | Silang Revolt (1762–63) | |
| Palaris Revolt (1762–1765) | ||
| Camarines Revolt (1762–1764) | ||
| Cebu Revolt (1762–1764) | ||
| British forces looted and plundered many of Manila establishments through the so-called Rape of Manila. | ||
| September 22 | British fleet entered seizes Manila Bay as part of the Seven Years War | |
| October 5 | Manila fell under the British rule; start of the British occupation. | |
| October 6 | Simón de Anda y Salazar appointed Governor-General (1762-17614) by the Real Audiencia. Provisional Government established in Bacolor, Pampanga with de Anda as dictator. | |
| November 2 | The British East India Company commissioned The Rt Hon. Dawsonne Drake became the first British governor-general of the Philippines until 1764. | |
| 1763 | Dabo and Marayac Revolt (1763) | |
| Isabela Revolt (1763). | ||
| February 10 | Treaty of Paris implicitly returns Manila to Spain. | |
| 28 May | Deaths of Gabriela Silang, the only Filipina to have led a revolt, and her husband Diego. | |
| 1764 | March 17 | de Anda hands over the control of the colonial government to Francisco Javier de la Torre, newly appointed Governor-General (1764–1765) |
| June 11 | The last of the British ships that sailed to Manila leaves the Philippines for India, ending the British occupation. | |
| 1765 | February 10 | Royal Fiscal of Manila Don Francisco Léandro de Viana writes the famous letter to King Charles III of Spain, later called as "Viana Memorial of 1765". The document advised the king to abandon the colony due to the economic and social devastation created by the Seven Years' War. The suggestion was not heeded. |
| July 6 | José Antonio Raón y Gutiérrez appointed Governor-General (1765–1770) | |
| Governor Raon orders the minting of parallelogramic-shaped coins called barrillas, the first coined minted in the Philippines. | ||
| 1769 | July 23 | The Society of Jesus in the Philippines is expelled by Raón after receiving a dated later from Charles III's chief minister Don Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea on March 1, 1767. The Jesuit's Properties are confiscated by the Spanish Colonial Government |
| 1770 | July | Simón de Anda y Salazar appointed Governor-General (1770–1776) |
| 1771 | Moro pirates traveled all over the country and raids many fishing villages in Manila Bay, Mariveles, Parañaque, Pasay and Malate. | |
| 1774 | November 9 | Parishes secularized by order of King Charles III of Spain. |
| 1776 | October 30 | Pedro de Sarrio appointed Governor-General (1776–1778) |
| 1778 | July | José Basco y Vargas appointed Governor-General (1778–1787) |
| 1780 | Real Sociedad Economica de los Amigos del Pais de Filipinas (Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Philippines) introduced in the Philippines to offer local and foreign scholarships and professorships to Filipinos, and financed trips of scientists from Spain to the Philippines | |
| 1783 | Bishop Mateo Joaquin de Arevalo of Cebu establishes the Colegio-Seminario de San Carlos(later renamed as the University of San Carlos) from the old building of the defunct Colegio de San Ildefonso, which was closed down in 1769 after the suppression of the Jesuits. | |
| 1785 | Lagutao Revolt (1785). | |
| 20 May | University of Santo Tomas granted Royal Title by King Charles III of Spain. | |
| 1787 | September 22 | Pedro de Sarrio appointed Governor-General (1787–1788) |
| 1788 | Ilocos Norte Revolt (1788). | |
| April 2 | Birth of the greatest Tagalog poet from Bulacan Francisco "Balagtas" Baltazar. | |
| July 1 | Félix Berenguer de Marquina appointed Governor-General (1788–1793) | |
| 1793 | September 1 | Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León appointed Governor-General (1793–1806) |
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