1622 A battle between a Spanish expeditionary force and 1, 500 rebels in Bohol takes place. The Spanish force consists of 50 Spanish and 1, 000 Cebuano troops under Juan de Alcarazo, alcalde mayor of Cebu. The Bohol rebellion is quelled after two weeks. 1961 Toledo is formally inaugurated as a chartered city under Republic […]
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DECEMBER 4
1840 Governor General Francisco Alcala approves the plan to construct the Magellan Monument in Punta Engaño, Mactan. 1903 Act. No. 1020 of the Philippine Commission appropriates $20, 000 for the construction of a timber wharf in Cebu City. 1916 Birth in Cebu City of Sergio Osmeña Jr., Senator and long-time Cebu political leader.
DECEMBER 3
Fiesta of Pilar, Cebu. Fiesta of Alegria, Cebu. 1628 Death of Christobal Gimenez, S.J., linguist, who came to the Philippines in 1596 and spent 32 years in the Visayan missions. 1901 Cebu insurgent leader Melquiades Lasala of Danao surrenders to the Americans.
DECEMBER 2
1886 Bishop Martin Alcocer, the last of the Spanish Bishops of Cebu, takes formal possession of the diocese of Cebu. 1928 Progress, an English magazine published in Cebu by Vicente Rama, comes off the press.
DECEMBER 1
1908 Birth of Cebuano writer-politician Natalio B. Bacalso. 1965 Col. Albert B. Friedlander, deputy III Military Area commander, is appointed Acting III MA commander.
Buwan ng Pambansang Wika 2024
Ang Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), sa kooperasyon ng USC Cebuano Studies Center Sentro ng Wika at Kultura (CSC-SWK), ay magsasagawa ng isang tertulyang pangwika na pinamagatang “Sebwano: Wikang Mapagpalaya” para sa selebrasyon ng Buwan ng Pambansang Wika 2024. Layunin ng tertulyang ito na talakayin ang iba’t ibang konsepto ng kalayaan, kabilang na ang […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 March
“Balay sa Dios ug Ganghaan sa Langit: Spanish-era Church Construction in Cebu (1565-1898)” Mr. Trizer Dale Mansueto ABSTRACT The ancient Cebuanos didn’t have churches. They worshiped and built shrines wherever, especially in forests and close to bodies of water. When Miguel Lopez de Legazpi arrived in 1565, they eventually built the first Christian church made […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 February
“The Empty Root ‘kuan’ in Radio Conversations: Revisiting Its Versatile Functions and Syntactic Slots” Mr. Philip Donald Herrera ABSTRACT This study looked into the pragmatic functions as well as the syntactic slots of the empty root kuan in identified conversations. These pragmatic functions and syntactic slots were based on the frameworks first proposed by […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 January
“Bethlehem to Golgotha: Santo Niño de Cebu and Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno in Filipino collective memory and vision” Mr. Jason A. Baguia. ABSTRACT The Catholic Church in the Philippines has been unequivocal in catechizing its publics about the oneness of the Child Jesus and Jesus on the Way of the Cross although a comparative approach […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 December
“Manding Karya’s Advice to Young Women from Panid ni Manding Karya: The Advice Column of Maria A. Kabigon in the Bisaya Magazine” Ms. Joanalyn P. Gabales ABSTRACT Maria A. Kabigon, also known as Manding Karya, was considered the most popular Cebuano woman writer of the pre-World War II period. Throughout her writing career, she produced […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 November
“Mapping The Nation In Januar Yap’s Arkipelago” Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu ABSTRACT In Januar Yap’s recent novel, Arkipelago, the nation is being mapped and written by different characters who make sense of the nation from where they are situated in the archipelago, “claiming space” as if the capital did not matter. While the stories are conscious […]