Timeline of Philippine history
Year Date Event
1930 November 7 Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ( PKP , Communist Party of the Philippines ) is formally established by Crisanto Evangelista at Tondo , Manila
1932 January 9 George C. Butte appointed as acting Civil Governor ( 1932 )
1932 January 21 Davao Prison and Penal Farm in present-day Davao del Norte is established ( Act No . 3732 ) ; country 's first penal settlement
1932 February 29 Theodore Roosevelt , Jr. appointed as Civil Governor ( 1932-1933 )
1932 June 20 Adamson School of Industrial Chemistry ( ASIC ) later known as Adamson University was founded by George Lucas Adamson
1932 July 11 Radio station KZEG begins operation , sister station of KZRM ; call sign later changed to KZRF
1932 October 26 The Communist Party of the Philippines is declared illegal by the Supreme Court
1933 July 15 Frank Murphy appointed as the last Civil Governor of the Philippines ( 1933-1935 )
1933 October 29 Partido Sakdal formed
1933 December 7 Governor-General Frank Murphy granted the Right of Suffrage to the Filipino women
1934 March 24 The Tydings-McDuffie Law , known as the Philippine Independence Law , is approved by U.S. President Roosevelt
1934 May 7 A pearl , which would be one of the worlds largest , is found in Palawan
1934 July 10 202 delegates are elected to the Constitutional Convention in accordance with the Tydings-McDuffie Act
1934 July 30 The Philippine Constitutional Convention is inaugurated
1934 November 3 Bannawag , Ilocos region 's weekly vernacular magazine , established
1935 February 8 The Constitutional Convention creates a new constitution
1935 February 15 The Philippine Constitution is signed
1935 May 2 Sakdalista uprising against the Philippine Constabulary fails with at least 60 members dead
1935 May 14 The Philippine electorate ratifies the Constitution in a referendum
1935 September 17 Manuel Quezon elected President in the first Philippine Presidential elections
20th century -- 1930s
This is a timeline of Philippine history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Philippines and their predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of the Philippines. See also the list of Presidents of the Philippines.