Antonio de Morga was a Spanish colonial official, lawyer, and writer born in 1559 in Seville, Spain. He served for 43 years in colonial positions in the Philippines, New Spain (Mexico), and Peru, including 20 years as president of the Real Audiencia in Peru. In the Philippines, he restored the audencia and issued administrative reforms. He authored Sucesos de las islas Filipinas, published in 1609, which provides important details on the early Spanish colonization of the Philippines.
Antonio de Morga was a Spanish colonial official, lawyer, and writer born in 1559 in Seville, Spain. He served for 43 years in colonial positions in the Philippines, New Spain (Mexico), and Peru, including 20 years as president of the Real Audiencia in Peru. In the Philippines, he restored the audencia and issued administrative reforms. He authored Sucesos de las islas Filipinas, published in 1609, which provides important details on the early Spanish colonization of the Philippines.
Antonio de Morga was a Spanish colonial official, lawyer, and writer born in 1559 in Seville, Spain. He served for 43 years in colonial positions in the Philippines, New Spain (Mexico), and Peru, including 20 years as president of the Real Audiencia in Peru. In the Philippines, he restored the audencia and issued administrative reforms. He authored Sucesos de las islas Filipinas, published in 1609, which provides important details on the early Spanish colonization of the Philippines.
everyone . We are the group 6; I am ANGELIE CABANSAG together with my groupmates, MR. BLADEMIR OFRECIO, BONIFACIO OLERMO JR. ,and MISS NIEZEL DE VERA and were here to discuss the Module 6 entitled “The annotation of Antonio Morga’s Sucesus de las islas Filipinas” Again I am Angelie Cabansag and im here to give you a brief background information Born Antonio de Morga Sánchez Garay about Antonio de Morga and his books. (PPT) 29 November 1559 Seville, Spain
Antonio de Morga Sánchez Garay (29 Died 21 July 1636 (aged 76)
November 1559 – 21 July 1636) was a Quito, Ecuador Spanish soldier, lawyer and a high-ranking colonial official for 43 years, in Occupation Colonial official, lawyer and writer the Philippines , New Spain and Peru (1594 to 1604), where he was president of Language Spanish the Real Audiencia for 20 years. He was also a historian. After being Citizenship Spanish reassigned to Mexico, he published the book Sucesos de las islas Filipinas in 1609, Alma mater University of Osuna considered one of the most important works University of Salamanca on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. [1] As Deputy Governor in the Philippines, he restored the audencia. He took over the function of judge or oidor. He also took command of Spanish ships in a 1600 naval battle against Dutch corsairs, but suffered defeat and barely survived. He first served under Governor-General Luis Pérez Dasmariñas, who was interim after his father's death. Francisco Tello de Guzmán soon succeeded him, and Morga reported to him during most of his time in the colony. In his account of the colonial Philippines published in 1609, Morga noted the miserable condition suffered by many of the Spanish/Mexican soldiers, who were young, ill-paid and suffered in that unfamiliar environment. Few wanted to settle in Manila, and higher-level government officials also sought to leave the colony in a few years. His first two reports to the Crown covered a wide variety of topics, mentioning Japan, Mindanao, and China, in addition to civil, military and ecclesiastical activities within the colony.[2] He issued regulations for administrative reform, known as the Ordenzas. Among his reforms was to restore the audencia. In 1598 he resigned as lieutenant governor to assume the office of oidor, or judge, in the newly re-established Audiencia of Manila. The position required his removal from much public life. During this period, Morga encouraged the growth in trade between Spain and China, known as the galleon trade. Chinese ships came to Manila to trade. From there, the Spanish sent galleons to Acapulco, where goods were shipped to Mexico City and then to Veracruz, for transportation to Spain. They were paid for with Spanish/Mexican silver, which became a currency in China.[2] While stationed in Manila, Morga noted many of the wares imported from the Ming dynasty of China. He mentioned porcelain only once, although at this time it was becoming one of the greatest export items, along with silk, to Europe from China.[3] From his observation of textiles in the Manila inventory, the Spanish were buying: His history was first published in English in 1868 NEXT SLIDE.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55
1609
Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century