History Month 2021 Celebrates Quincentennial Values
Posted on 01 August 2021 By NQC Secretariat
How to celebrate History Month 2021? Remember the winning moments of the Filipino heart and soul.
Space is not enough to detail the triumphs and compassion we exhibited throughout our history as a people. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines encourages each and every Filipino to celebrate #VictoryAndHumanity this History Month (August 2021). We have a victorious heritage just like what the warriors of Mactan led by Lapulapu had proven in the Battle of Mactan, and at the same time, a compassionate culture like what our ancestors in Homonhon (now part of Guiuan, Eastern Samar) had shown the starving, undernourished, dehydrated, scurvy-stricken, and dying crew of the Magellan-Elcano expedition–both happened 500 years ago.
May we find ways how to exhibit “Victory and Humanity” every day. It is the theme of the 2021 Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines.
Maligayang Buwan ng Kasaysayan, kababayan!
Jesus G. Rona’s Triumph of Lapulapu (2020) courtesy of the NHCP; unsung Katipunan revolutionaries, from Botong Francisco’s Filipino Struggles Through History (1968), courtesy of the National Museum of the Philippines (photographed by Xiao Chua); proclamation of Philippine independence on 12 June 1898 which was fought by the founders of the Filipino nation first against Spain and then a few months later, against America, courtesy of NHCP; inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth, courtesy of the National Library of the Philippines (via Official Gazette); Jewish refugees in 1939–a number of them were saved by the Philippine government from the Nazis when no other countries, not even the U.S., welcomed them, courtesy of the Associated Press; the recognition of Philippine independence on 4 July 1946, just months after World War II in the Philippines ended on 3 September 1945, courtesy of the National Library of the Philippines; the restoration of democracy and human rights in the Philippines after the 1986 EDSA People Power , courtesy of Presidential Museum and Library; Philippines wins the arbitration case on West Philippine Sea on 12 July 2016, courtesy of Reuters/Romeo Ranoco; and Hidilyn Diaz wins the first Olympic gold medal of the country in Tokyo Olympics on 26 July 2021, courtesy of Getty Images.
