<P> The history of the Philippines from 1521 to 1898 , also known as the Spanish colonial period , a period that spans during the Captaincy General of the Philippines located in the collection of Islands in Southeast Asia that was colonized by Spain known as ' Las Islas Filipinas ' , under New Spain until Mexican independence which gave Madrid direct control over the area . It was also known as Spanish East Indies to the colonialist . It started with the arrival in 1521 of European explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailing for Spain , which heralded the period when the Philippines was a colony of the Spanish Empire , and ended with the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution in 1898 , which marked the beginning of the American colonial era of Philippine history . </P>
<P> The history of the Philippines from 1521 to 1898 , also known as the Spanish colonial period , a period that spans during the Captaincy General of the Philippines located in the collection of Islands in Southeast Asia that was colonized by Spain known as ' Las Islas Filipinas ' , under New Spain until Mexican independence which gave Madrid direct control over the area . It was also known as Spanish East Indies to the colonialist . It started with the arrival in 1521 of European explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailing for Spain , which heralded the period when the Philippines was a colony of the Spanish Empire , and ended with the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution in 1898 , which marked the beginning of the American colonial era of Philippine history . </P>
when did the spanish arrived in the philippines
when did the spanish arrived in the philippines
1521
1521