The Philippines formally becomes a Spanish colony on April 27, 1565 as Miguel López de Legazpi arrives in Cebu, Philippines, from Mexico and establishes the first permanent Spanish settlement, Villa San Miguel. Ferdinand Magellan arrived decades earlier. but did not make any attempts of colonization.
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