GROUP 2

THE WORLD DURING THE 19TH

CENTURY
THE 19TH CENTURY IS KNOWN
TO BE THE AGE OF
ENLIGHTENMENT IN
PHILIPPINE HISTORY WHICH
CAN DISCRIBED AS COLORFUL
PART OF THE HISTORY.
• THE FOLLOWING ARE THE
SEVERAL EVENTS THAT
TOOK SHAPE AND GIVE
IMPACT IN THE PHILIPPINE
SOIL DURING THE 19TH
CENTURY.
 INDIA
• AT THE TIME INDIA
WAS GOVERNED BY
THE MOGUL EMPIRE
WHERE SEPOY
SOLDIERS STAGGED
A MUTINY AND
MURDERED SOME
BRITISH
COMMANDERS OF
THE ARMY.
 AFTER THE MUTINY, BRITISH
AUTHORITIES HIRED LOYAL
INDIAN TO QUELL THE MODUL
EMPIRE AND RE-ESTABLISH
ONCE AGAIN BRITISH
COLONIALISM IN INDIA.
CHINA
 CHINA
• IS KNOWN TO BE ONE OF THE OLDEST
TRADING PARTNERS OF THE PHILIPPINES.
• IN 19TH CENTURY, CHINA WAS RULED BY
A DYNASTY THAT WAS LED BY A FAMILY
RULERS.
• MANCHU DYNASTY RULED CHINA WHEN
THE TAIPING REBELLION HAPPENED
BETWEEN 1852 UP TO 1864.
• CHINA WAS FRAGMENTED INTO PIECES
BY THE FOREIGN POWERS
PARTICULARLY MANAGED IN WHOLE OR
PART BY ITALY, FRANCE AND GREAT
BRITAIN.
• RUSSIA ALSO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF
CHINA BY TAKING SOME OF THE
ISLANDS AFTER THAT SINO-RUSSIAN
WAR IN THE EARLY 1900’S OR LATTER
PART OF THE 19TH CENTURY.
THERE WERE SOME CONFLICTS ALSO
WITH MONGOLIA IN NORTHERN PART
OF CHINESE MAINLAND, THE OPIUM
WAR (1856-1860) BECAME ONE OF THE
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TURMOIL
OF THAT TIME WHERE HONG KONG
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 JAPAN
• IN 1853 (8 YEARS BEFORE RIZAL WAS
BORN), THE AMERICAN NAVAL FORCE
HEADED BY MATHEW PERRY WANTED
TO ESTABLISHED PORTS FOR AMERICAN
SHIPS, JAPAN SIGNED SEVERAL TREATIES
WITH OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
PARTICULARLY FRANCE, RUSSIA,
HOLLAND AND GREAT BRETAIN.
 • THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THE
WESTERNS ENTERED JAPAN WHICH
ESTABLISHED ITS SHOGUNATE FOR A
LONG TIME.
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 SINGAPORE
• WAS KNOWN FOR ITS PORTS AT THE TIME
WHERE MERCHANT AND PASSENGER SHIPS
LOADED AND UNLOADED FROM PLACE TO
PLACE.
• IT WAS FOUNDED BY BRITISH SIR
STAMFORD RAFFLES IN 1819 AND ITS
COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE WAS ESTABLISH
AFTER FROM THE SEPERATION FROM THE
FEDERATON OF MALAYA 1965.
• WHAT ARE THE 4 COUNTRIES THAT MOLDED
THE PHILIPPINES DURING THE 19TH CENTURY?
• IT IS KNOWN TO BE ONE OF THE OLDEST
TRADING PARTNERS OF THE PHILIPPINES?
• BRIEFTLY EXPLAIN THE EVENT HAPPENS IN
SINGAPORE.(5POINTS)