Circa 22,000 BC - The early Filipinos, Negritos and Proto Malays arrived via land bridges between Palawan and Borneo, Luzon and Asia, and most likely Southern Mindoro and Celebes.

220 - 263 A.D. - During the period of the Three Kingdoms "Little, dark people" living in Anwei province in South China were driven South by Ham People. Some settled in Thailand, others went farther south to Indonesia, Sumatra,
Borneo. They were known as Aetas and Negritos from whom our Batak tribe descended.

982 A.D. - As early as this date, ancient Chinese Traders knew Palawan as Palauyu.

Early 9th Century - Chinese who traded with the natives of the coastal regions of Calamines knew the place as Palaoyu, meaning "Land of beautiful safe harbors."



SPANISH PERIOD

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan lande at Homonhon, Samar on March 16 and was killed on April 27 in a battle with Lapu lapu in Mactan. The first mass was celebrated on March 31.

After Magellan's death, remnant of his fleet landed in Palawan where the bounty of the land saved them from starvation. Pigafetta Magellan's chronicler named the place "land of Promise."

The Spaniards saw the people's cultivated fields and theit weapons consisting of blowpipes, spears and bronze ombard, and witnessed for the first time cock fighting and fist fighting. Pigafetta likewise discovered that the pre-Spanish Palaweños had their own system of writing consisting of 13 consonants and 3 vowels. They had a dialect
of 18 syllables. He further wrote that in Palawan, the local King had 10 scribes who wrote down the King's dictation on leaves.

The first ever recorded act of piracy in the Philippines happened in Palawan when Chief Tuan Mohamad and his staff were captured aboard their vessel and taken hostage by the Spaniards who demanded ransom within 7 days consisting of 400 sukats or 190 sacks of clean rice, 450 chickens, 20 pigs, 20 goats and several jars filled with tuba.