Category:History of the Philippines (1565–1898)


 * The Spanish colonial period in the Philippines — colonial rule of the Las Islas Filipinas (Philippines), a part of the Spanish East Indies territories, which arose from explorations beginning in 1521.
 * The colonial Captaincy General of the Philippines (1565–1898), an administrative district of the Spanish Empire, was a dependency of/managed by the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in México City.