1603 - The cabildo of the Cathedral informs
the colonial King of Spain of the revolt of the Chinese and the
subsequent conflagration in Manila in the Southeast Asian colony, the
Philippines; earlier in September the same year, rumors of a Chinese
uprising circulated about a week before it took place in October 3 when
the Chinese in Manila gathered in Binondo and Tondo to
battle the colonial Spanish soldiers in an uprising said to have been
provoked by the Spaniards themselves; unfortunately, the Chinese were slaughtered by the thousands by the colonial forces that included Kapampangan and Japanese conscripts and even a company of Jesuits friars within only half a century of Spanish colonization; the 1603 slaughter of some 23,000 Chinese would be the first of a total of six massacres of Chinese under the Spanish colonial rule.
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