Significant Events in March in Filipino History

Mariano Ponce y Collantes was a physician, writer, diplomat, and statesman who became one of the most industrious minds of the Propaganda Movement and an important bridge between the reformist and revolutionary generations. Born in Baliuag, Bulacan in March 23, 1863, he helped organize and sustain La Solidaridad, served in the Hong Kong Junta and the First Philippine Republic, and later became a legislator and leading nationalist public intellectual in the American colonial period.

The Tydings-McDuffie Act, officially known as the Philippine Independence Act, was a landmark piece of legislation passed by the United States Congress in 1934. This act laid the groundwork for the Philippines, then an American territory, to transition towards full independence after a ten-year period.

On March 24, 1986, President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, moved from the Hickam Air Force Base (HAFB) officers' quarters to a nice and quiet surroundings, a beach-front home of an auto dealer, James Pflueger, in Oahu, Hawaii, near Honolulu, the same island where the HAFB is.

On March 24, 1906, Samar Governor George Curry received the surrender of the remaining Pulajanes in Magtaon, Island of Samar (present day Magtaon, Mapanas, Northern Samar). Around 100 Pulajanes presented themselves with some 14 guns.

On March 24, 2001, Roselle Ambubuyog became the first visually-impaired Filipina to emerge as summa cum laude graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU).

On March 25, 1986, just one month after the historic People Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos, President Corazon Cory" Aquino took a bold step to redefine the Philippines' political landscape. She issued Proclamation No. 3, a landmark decree that suspended the 1973 Constitution and established a provisional revolutionary government. This move, rooted in the extraordinary mandate of the February uprising, aimed to dismantle the remnants of Marcos' authoritarian regime and pave the way for democratic restoration.

On March 25, 1565, the Sandugo or blood compact was made between Bohol chieftain Datu Sikatuna and Spanish explorer Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in Loay, Bohol.

On March 26, 1867, Braulio Rivera, one of the "Thirteen Martyrs of Bagumbayan", was born in Gitna (now renamed after him), Tondo, Manila, near the corner of Zabala and Sto. Cristo Streets, Manila. Braulio was the son of Jose Rivera, a worker at the tobacco monopoly administration.