Significant Events in November in Filipino History

On November 17, 1898 a provisional revolutionary government of the District of Visayas was organized as a political subdivision of the Malolos government. Steps were then taken to organize the towns in accordance with the regulations issued by General Emilio Aguinaldo. Roque Lopez was designated president of the revolutionary government of the District of Visayas. Upon the constitution of the government a manifesto was issued which reads in part as follows:

On November 18, 2024, the Philippines and the United States signed a significant military intelligence-sharing agreement, marking a deepening of security ties between the two nations. The agreement, known as the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), allows both countries to securely share classified military information.

On November 18, 1928, Salvador "Doy" Laurel, Cory Aquino's Vice President, was born in Paco, Manila. Laurel was the youngest son of Jose P. Laurel, president of the Japanese occupied Philippines and a justice of the Supreme Court during the American colonial period, and Paciencia Hidalgo, both came from Tanauan, Batangas.

On November 18, 1848, Trinidad Tecson, popularly known as the "Mother of Biak-na-Bato", was born in San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan.

On November 19, 1850, Isabelo Tampinco, one of the greatest Filipino wood sculptors who carved numerous religious wood sculptures in Manila and elsewhere, was born in Binondo, Manila.

On November 20, 1645, Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santissimo Rosario, present day University of Santo Tomas (UST), one of the existing and oldest universities in Asia, was elevated to university status by Pope Innocent X.

On November 21, 1849, Spanish Governor-General Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa issued one of the most consequential administrative decrees in Philippine colonial history - a mandate that would fundamentally reshape Filipino identity and genealogical records for centuries to come. The Claveria Decree represented a transformative moment when the Spanish colonial government formally standardized the naming system for Filipinos across the entire archipelago, establishing a practice whose effects persist in Filipino surnames to this day.