Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on December 30 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
Manila was the capital of the Spanish East Indies for 333 years — from 1571, when Miguel López de Legazpi established Spanish rule, until the Spanish-American War of 1898 when the United States acquired the Philippines (along with Puerto Rico and Guam).
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 →