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.
Tag: 2023 March
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 March
“Motherless Tongue: To Be Bisaya in a Non-English Country” Jona Branzuela Bering ABSTRACT: Is it possible to write about the very people you want to write about when you are far away from them, when your everyday life is so far removed from the daily functions of the language you want to write in? —an […]