PH jolted awake soonIn just a little over four years, on March 16, 2021, our country and the world will mark the quincentennial, the 500th anniversary, of Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe. Some say the Arabs and the Chinese, and maybe the Polynesians, discovered the archipelago earlier than Magellan. The President – that he will consider this early the constitution of a Philippine Quincentennial Commission, that will lay the ground and organize the celebration and commemoration of Magellan’s epic voyage. Now that we are clearly a country with a history with dates, we should not balk at celebrating this date in our history – March 16, 1521. We celebrate every year many dates in our country, but none are surely more worthy than this day of discovery and circumnavigation.

Source: Manila Times March 15, 2017 16:07 UTC