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September 26

Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on September 26 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.

2 events 1 century 1 country
1971

Pasig was one of the major Spanish-era municipalities

Pasig City Philippines

of the broader Manila region — the Immaculate Conception Cathedral (Pasig Cathedral) dates to the late 16th century and retains substantial colonial-era heritage; Pasig was historically the eastern boundary of the Spanish-administered Manila area. The Pasig River — which gives…

1996

city status in 1996

Marikina City Philippines

Marikina shoe-making dates to 1887, when Don Laureano "Kapitan Moy" Guevarra opened the city's first shoe shop — he is credited as the founder of the Marikina footwear industry and is commemorated by the Kapitan Moy house (now part of the Shoe Museum complex).

Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →