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:''Lapu-Lapu is also the name of the grouper fish in the Philippines. For the city, see Lapu-Lapu City.''
'Lapu-Lapu' (Khalif Pulaka) (c.1491 – 1547) was the earliest known indigenous Datu (chieftain) of the Visayan-inhabited Mactan Island in the Philippines. A Muslim Tausug by ancestry, he was known as the first native of the archipelago to have resisted Spanish colonization. He is now regarded as the first National hero of the Philippines.
On the morning of March 17, 1521, Lapu-Lapu and the men of Mactan, armed with spears and kampilan, faced Spanish soldiers led by Portuguese captain Ferdinand Magellan. In what would later be known as the Battle of Mactan, Magellan and several of his men were killed.
In his honor, the Cebuano people have erected a statue and church in Mactan Island and also renamed the town of Opon in Cebu to Lapu-Lapu City.
March 14,1521 - Rajah Humabon, his family, and 800 Sugboanons (people from Cebu) befriended Magellan and converted to Roman Catholicism. Magellan declared the people of Cebu to be "servant of God and Spain", while the pagan and Muslim inhabitants of Mactan island became the "enemies of the Church".
March 17, 1521 - Magellan, with nearly fifty armored men, ploughed ashore Mactan island and fought Lapu-Lapu and 1500 warriors. The encounter is known in Philippine history as the Battle of Mactan. The Spaniards were driven off the island in a terrible defeat, as Magellan was killed while he ordered a retreat.
June 9, 1522 - Juan Sebastian Elcano, navigating Magellan's only remaining vessel La Victoria with eighteen men and 533-hundredweight-cloves on board, successfully returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain via the Tidorein Maluka (present-day Moluccas), Juan Sebastian Elcano was listed in world history as the first man to have ever completed the circumnavigation of the world.
October 1, 1971 - Orlando, Florida, His legacy is preserved at the Disney Polynesian Resort in the form of a menu item. Lapu-Lapu is a potent drink ''possibly'' named in his honor. It consists of 1 shot Meyer's dark rum, 1 shot Bacardi 151 proof rum, 1 shot sour mix, ice, and orange juice all in a hollowed out pineapple.
2002, Lapu-Lapu (feature length film)- remake of 1955 indie-Filipino cult classic/winner of multiple F.A.P. awards (Film Academy of the Philippines), including best actor & best film.
# Agoncillo, Teodoro A. Magellan and Lapu-Lapu. Fookien Times Yearbook, 1965, p. 634.
# Alcina, Francisco, Historia de las Islas e Indios de Bisaya, MS 1668.
# Correa, Gaspar, Lendas de India, Vol. 2, p. 630.
# Cruz, Gemma, "Making Little Hero of Mactan."
# Estabaya, D. M., 445 Years of Lapu-lapu, Weekly nation 1: 26-27, April 25, 1966.
# Pigafetta, Antonio, Primo Viaje en Torno al Globo Terraqueo, Corredato di Notte de Carlo Amoteti, Milano, 1800.
Statue of Lapu-Lapu, with Magellan Monument in background, Mactan Island, Cebu.
'Lapu-Lapu' (Khalif Pulaka) (c.1491 – 1547) was the earliest known indigenous Datu (chieftain) of the Visayan-inhabited Mactan Island in the Philippines. A Muslim Tausug by ancestry, he was known as the first native of the archipelago to have resisted Spanish colonization. He is now regarded as the first National hero of the Philippines.
On the morning of March 17, 1521, Lapu-Lapu and the men of Mactan, armed with spears and kampilan, faced Spanish soldiers led by Portuguese captain Ferdinand Magellan. In what would later be known as the Battle of Mactan, Magellan and several of his men were killed.
In his honor, the Cebuano people have erected a statue and church in Mactan Island and also renamed the town of Opon in Cebu to Lapu-Lapu City.
| Contents |
| Timeline |
| Trivia |
| References |
Timeline
March 14,1521 - Rajah Humabon, his family, and 800 Sugboanons (people from Cebu) befriended Magellan and converted to Roman Catholicism. Magellan declared the people of Cebu to be "servant of God and Spain", while the pagan and Muslim inhabitants of Mactan island became the "enemies of the Church".
March 17, 1521 - Magellan, with nearly fifty armored men, ploughed ashore Mactan island and fought Lapu-Lapu and 1500 warriors. The encounter is known in Philippine history as the Battle of Mactan. The Spaniards were driven off the island in a terrible defeat, as Magellan was killed while he ordered a retreat.
June 9, 1522 - Juan Sebastian Elcano, navigating Magellan's only remaining vessel La Victoria with eighteen men and 533-hundredweight-cloves on board, successfully returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain via the Tidorein Maluka (present-day Moluccas), Juan Sebastian Elcano was listed in world history as the first man to have ever completed the circumnavigation of the world.
Trivia
October 1, 1971 - Orlando, Florida, His legacy is preserved at the Disney Polynesian Resort in the form of a menu item. Lapu-Lapu is a potent drink ''possibly'' named in his honor. It consists of 1 shot Meyer's dark rum, 1 shot Bacardi 151 proof rum, 1 shot sour mix, ice, and orange juice all in a hollowed out pineapple.
2002, Lapu-Lapu (feature length film)- remake of 1955 indie-Filipino cult classic/winner of multiple F.A.P. awards (Film Academy of the Philippines), including best actor & best film.
References
# Agoncillo, Teodoro A. Magellan and Lapu-Lapu. Fookien Times Yearbook, 1965, p. 634.
# Alcina, Francisco, Historia de las Islas e Indios de Bisaya, MS 1668.
# Correa, Gaspar, Lendas de India, Vol. 2, p. 630.
# Cruz, Gemma, "Making Little Hero of Mactan."
# Estabaya, D. M., 445 Years of Lapu-lapu, Weekly nation 1: 26-27, April 25, 1966.
# Pigafetta, Antonio, Primo Viaje en Torno al Globo Terraqueo, Corredato di Notte de Carlo Amoteti, Milano, 1800.
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