This is an attempt to create an online timeline of events (e.g. historical) which happened inside the Cordillera Administrative Region. Want to share facts? have corrections to entries? send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Data needed for inclusion are the following: date, event/s, your source/s...

1863

- Abra: The Municipality of Bangued became the capital town of the province of Abra. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1900

November 22, 1900 - Baguio City: The Philippine Commission enacted Act No. 48 making Baguio as a town. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

November 23, 1900 - Baguio City: The Philippine Commission established a Civil Government for the Province of Benguet with the town of Baguio as its capital. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1901

August 19, 1901 - Abra: The Philippine Commission established a Civil Government in Abra. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1903

June 1, 1903 - Baguio City: The Philippine Commission made the town of Baguio as the Summer Capital of the Philippines (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1905

February 1905 - Abra: Abra became a sub-province of Ilocos Sur. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1908

- Baguio City: The construction of the Mansion House, a modern hospital and the first country club building - all in Baguio City - were finished by the year 1908. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

August 13, 1908 - Region: The mountainous areas in the Northern Philippines was organized into one political territory which was called the Lepanto-Bontoc Province under Act No. 1876 promulgated by the Philippine Commission.  (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1909

September 1, 1909 - Baguio City: Baguio became a chartered city through Act No. 1963. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1917

March 9, 1917 - Abra: Abra regained its status as a regular province through Act No. 2683. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)
 

1918

- Abra: Boliney became a municipal district from being just a barangay of Manabo. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1920

February 14, 1920 - Region: The Lepanto-Bontoc Province was reorganized constituting five (5) sub-provinces namely: Benguet, Bontoc, Ifugao, Kalinga and Apayao through Act No. 2772. It's name was also changed to Mt. Province.  (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1941

December 8, 1941 -  Baguio City: Japanese warplanes started bombing the city of Baguio (Source:Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

December 27, 1941 -  Baguio City: Japanese Imperial Army occupied the city of Baguio (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999) 

1945

March 10, 1945 -  Abra: Near the end of World War II, the allied forces bomb the municipality of Bangued in the province of Abra which razed to the ground almost all of the Spanish homes. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

April 26, 1945 -  Baguio City:  Liberation of the City of Baguio from Japanese forces by the Amercians. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

September 3, 1945 -  Baguio City: General Yamashita (known as the Tiger of Malaya) formally surrrendered to the Americans at teh US Ambassador's residence in Camp John Hay. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1959

- Abra: Boliney and Danac Municipal Districts were merged to form a single municipal district called Boliney. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

November, 1959 - Abra: First ever election in the new municipal district of Boliney. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1960

- Abra: The Municipality of Baay-Licuan in Abra was created. (Source: Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1966

June 18, 1966 -  Region: Republic Act No. 4695 otherwise known as the Division Law of Mountain Province was enacted dividing the Mt. Province into four (4) separate and independent provinces namely: Benguet, Ifugao, Mt. Province, Kalinga-Apayao. (Source:Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

1987

July 15, 1987 -  Region: President Corazon Aquino signed Executive Order 220 which created the Cordillera Administrative Region. (Source:Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999) 

1990

July 16, 1990 - Region: A killer earthquake struck the Cordillera Region and nearby provinces devastating the entire city of Baguio destroying many of its landmark infrastructure and buildings and killing many people. (Source:Cordillera Online)

1995

February 14, 1995 -  Region: PresidentFidel V. Ramos signed into law Republic Act No. 7878 which converts the province of Kalinga-Apayao into two separate and independent provinces namely: Kalinga and Apayao. (Source:Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

May 8, 1995 - Region: A plebescite to ratify Republic Act No. 7878 was held synchronized with the General Elections. The affirmative votes won overwhelmingly over the negative votes by 96% thus affirming (by the people) the division of Kalinga-Apayao province into two provinces (Kalinga and Apayao) (Source:Cordillera Almanac, DILG, 1999)

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