An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

Lapu-Lapu Day is a Filipino holiday named for an indigenous chief who won a 1521 battle with Spanish forces led by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the present-day Philippines. Vancouver is home ...

Lapu-Lapu Day is a Filipino holiday named for an indigenous chief who won a 1521 battle with Spanish forces led by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the present-day Philippines. Vancouver is home to ...

The festival, celebrated especially in the central Philippines, honours Datu Lapu-Lapu, the Filipino chieftain who famously defeated Spanish forces led by Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan in ...

On April 27, 1521, he led his men in defeating Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan. British Columbia officially recognised this date as Lapu-Lapu Day in 2023.

a Filipino chieftain who defeated Spanish forces led by Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan in 1521. The centerpiece of the festivities in Vancouver is a multi-block street party in the ...

Police work on Fraser street, near the site of the Lapu Lapu day block party where a vehicle drove into a crowd killing several people in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on April 26, 2025.