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Changes in the Philippines since the end of president Manuel L Quezon's Term
In President L Quezon Speech he implied that unless Filipinos change we will face a lot of challenges Here are some of the problems and events that happened in the Philippines that happened after he stepped down from Presidency

1946
Islands was granted complete independence by the US and renamed Philippine Republic.

1969
Marcos was re-elected for electoral fraud allegations. Supports Vietnam's US policy. The guerrilla war starts with Muslim separatists in the South.

1972
Marcos declares law on martial arrest. Parliament suspended, politicians arrested, censorship imposed. Parliament suspended

1977
Leader of the opposition Benigno Aquino was sentenced to death, but Marcos postponed his execution.

1981
Lifting of law on martial arrest. The presidential election is won by Marcos.

1983
Benigno Aquino returns to the Philippines but is shot dead while he leaves the plane suspected of military participation.

1986
Marcos opposed Aquino's widow Corazon in the presidential election. Marcos declares himself the winner, but there are quarrels in Aquino. Mass protests, known as the 'power of the people,' see Marcos, who flees into Hawaii, left military in Manila. Marcos said during his rule, a new government looted billions of dollars.

1992
Minister for Defense Fidel Ramos of Aquino wins the chairmanship. Subic Bay Naval Station is closed by the US.

1996
Agreement on peace with the Moro National Liberation Front, a separatist Muslim group. A different group, the MILF, fights on.

1998
Joseph Estrada was elected president former film star.

November
An accusation of corruption, betrayal of public confidence and violation of the Constitution is brought against President Estrada.

January
Suspension of impeachment causes mass street protests. Military withdraws support and President Estrada stands down. Vice-President Gloria Arroyo sworn in as president.

March
MILF declares ceasefire, says ready to hold talks with government.

April
|Joseph Estrada is charged with plundering more than $80m from state funds while in office. Eventually found guilty and jailed for life. although he wins pardon.

February
Ceasefire between MILF and government breaks down. Planned talks called off in May after rebel attack on Mindanao kills 30 people.

July
Government signs another ceasefire with MILF ahead of planned talks in Malaysia.

February
Peace talks between government and Maoist rebel New People's Army start in Norway, but are called off by the rebels in August.

june
Gloria Arroyo wins May's presidential elections.

April
A breakthrough has been achieved on the issue about ancestral land at peace talks in Malaysia between the government and MILF rebels.

June
Heavy fighting between military troops and MILF members breaks the July 2003 ceasefire agreement.

January
The death of the Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani back in 2006 has been confirmed through DNA results.

February
Government reports accuse our military of being behind the killings of left-wing activists since 2001.

July-August
Government negotiators have reached an agreement with MILF rebels on the expansion of a Muslim autonomous region in the south. Deal collapses after Christian communities raise objections and renewed the fighting on the southern island of Mindanao

December
Norwegian-brokered peace talks with Maoist guerrillas of the New People's Army (NPA) break down; NPA attacks army patrol on Mindanao.

September
Army announces the capture of the leading MILF member named Camarudin Hadji Ali.

December
Peace talks between the government and MILF resumes in Malaysia, after breaking down 16 months ago.

February
The army captures Abu Sayyaf leader Mujibar Alih Amon, suspected of a kidnapping raid on a Malaysian resort in 2000 and the killing of multiple Christian missionaries in 2001. Prosecutors charge 196 more people with murder over the Maguindanao massacre in November, including Andal Ampatuan Snr, a former provincial governor and ally of President Arroyo.

June
Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino becomes president.

February
Manila and Maoist New People's Army (NPA) agree to work towards a peace deal in 2012 at talks in Oslo, their first negotiations since the previous round broke down in 2004. Troops arrested prominent New People's Army (NPA) member Tirso Alcantara the previous month.

May
Philippines and Chinese naval vessels confront one another off the Scarborough Shoal reef in the South China Sea. Both countries claim the reef, which may have significant reserves of oil and gas.

October
The government signs a framework peace plan with the Muslim rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending a 40-year conflict that has cost an estimated 120,000 lives.

May
Major diplomatic row erupts between Taiwan and the Philippines after Filipino coastguards kill a Taiwanese fisherman in disputed waters.

November
Typhoon Haiyan sweeps across central areas of the country leaving devastation and thousands of dead in its wake. A major international aid effort is organised to help more than four million people affected.

March
The MILF rebel group signs a peace deal with the government that brings an end to one of Asia's longest and deadliest conflicts.

March
Hundreds of Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines register to vote in 2016 elections under peace deal designed to end four decades of conflict.

June
Populist former mayor Rodrigo Duterte elected president, announces hard-line crackdown on drugs and suggests he might pivot from the US to China.

July
Government welcomes the ruling in a case it brought before an international tribunal which concluded that China's claim to much of the resources in the South China Sea had no legal basis.

January
Rodrigo Duterte ordered the cleansing of the Philippine National Police (PNP) after corruption was discovered at the wake of the kidnapping of the South Korean, Jee Ick-Joo.

March
After a temporary suspension due to the kidnapping and killing of a South Korean national, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte orders the Philippine National Police to resume his controversial campaign.

April
The 30th ASEAN Summit was held at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay.

May
Martial law imposed on the island of Mindanao after fighting erupts between security forces and Islamic State-linked militants of the Maute group and Isnilon Hapilon.

October
Southern city of Marawai declared liberated from jihadist fighters who held it for almost five months.