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HISTORIC BATTLE. To commemorate the 123rd anniversary of the Battle of Tres de Abril of 1898, Cebu City officials hold a wreath-laying ceremony in front of the Tres de Abril marker between Tres De Abril street and V. Rama Avenue in Barangay San Nicolas Proper. Present at the event are (from left): Jason Philip Militante of the Knights of Rizal-Cebu City chapter; Bryner L. Diaz of the Cebu City Cultural and Historical Affairs Office, who represented Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella; barangay officials of San Nicolas Proper led by their chief, Clifford Jude Niñal; and Neil Odchigue, who represented Vice Mayor Michael Rama. (Cebu City Public Information Office)
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SunStar File February 24, 2021 IN CELEBRATION of the 84th Charter Day of Cebu City, SunStar Cebu collected some old and not so old facts about the Queen City of the South, which you may have already known or never heard of at all.
Did you know about these facts?
1. Cebu City is the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
Historian William Henry Scott, in his book Looking for the Prehispanic Filipino: and other essays in Philippine history, said that on June 4, 1565, Rajah Tupas, the last Rajah of Cebu, signed the Treaty of Cebu with Spanish navigator Miguel Lopez de Legazpi after being defeated by the colonizers. The treaty made Cebu the first and the oldest Spanish settlement in the Philippines.