Person1502 – 1572
Miguel López de Legazpi
Spanish conquistador who founded the first settlement in the Philippines at Cebu in 1565 and Manila in 1571, becoming the first governor
Where they went
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Spain found a return route across the Pacific from the Philippines to Mexico and founded Manila. For 250 years galleons crossed the Pacific, exchanging American silver for Chinese silk and porcelain.
People who appear alongside
- Andrés de Urdaneta1498 – 1568
Spanish friar and navigator who found the eastward return route across the Pacific from the Philippines to America (the tornaviaje) in 1565
Themes this person appears in
- The Age of Discovery1415 – 1600
From Ceuta to the Manila galleons — two centuries in which European ships crossed the oceans and bound the world together by sea
- Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800
The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning