Quiz Bee (History Of Cabiao

• Americans established schools in Cabiao and used the English language as a medium of instructions


  1903
• Pedro Oreta


  First chief executive of the town under American civil regime
• Jose Crespo


  Then Mun. President who established and organized the Presidencia (township hierarchy and organizational plan) constituting the different executive department of the municipality
• American occupation in Cabiao


  Not as cruel as their Spanish predecessor, however, the people of Cabiao were already afraid to trust the new colonizer
• Thomasites missionaries arrive in Cabiao as a part of educating the people


  Early part of 1902
• Some rural folks used to study individually in the Spanish methods of learning on arithmetic and reading in their native tongue Tagalog
• Cabiao was placed under jurisdiction of San Isidro and the executive power was then held by the Municipal President of San Isidro


  1907-1909
• Gonzalo Del Leon


  Municipal President during whose term the seat of Municipal Town Hall was erected on the land donated by the Romero family
• Jose Lapuz


  Municipal President during whose term Judge Bonifacio Ysip was elected as delegate to the constitutional convention held in Manila
• HUKBALAHAP (Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon) or People's Anti-Japanese Army, was established in Sitio Bawit,San Julian, Cabiao on March 29


  1942
• Mariano Guevarra was appointed Mayor of Cabiao


  1945
• Prudencio Ortiz Luis succeeded Guevarra as Mayor of Cabiao


  1945
• Ambrosio Aligada was appointed Mayor of Cabiao by President Manuel Roxas


  1945
• Ambrosio Aligada was the Chief Executive of Cabiao


  1945-1947
• The town of Cabiao was placed under the military government under Pablo Aligada
• It was also the time when the height of the Huk uprising began when the entire town was the seat of the rebellion, where the 50,000 armed group was inducted in Bawit and in Pasong Diablo only to be captured en masse by the then late General Ismael Lapus through the order of Secretary Magsaysay and the clearing of the entire forested area of Bagong Sikat and Sta. Isabel had begun purposely to eliminate the lair of the Huk rebels
• During Aligada's time, the Sitio of Palasinan (Presently San Gregorio) comprising the property owned by Don Ramon Fernandez were repopulated by the people coming from said the places whereas the area of Bagong Silang were repopulate by the people coming from Buliran, Guyong-guyong, Luyos of which most of them are Tagalogs
• The health center were constructed through the financial support of Defense Secretary Castelo Justice Secretary Hermogenes Concepcion and Doña Maria Romero Buencamino (who was at that time the richest family and the most influential)
• The people of Cabiao were governed by Aligada through coercive and dictatorial rule that is being manifested by the force labor construction of the Cabiao High School which is the monumental relic of his tenure
• Year 1950, when the 1st tenure of the late Paterno Santiano began, the towns public market was constructed through the support of the national government since the towns income cannot at that time support such huge amount of expenditures.
• Isaias Manalastas seated as the progressive mayor through the support HUKBALAHAPs


  1945
• The Prente Popular party fielded by the Huks did not last long due to the suspicion of the military of an imminent grabbing of power
• Nieves Pablo, a woman, was the fourth appointed mayor of Cabiao


  1945
• It was the 1st tenure of Gregorio T. Crespo, when the old town hall was renovated and the original Cabiao Central School Building has been restored. The gravelling of Sinipit -San Roque Road was made. Mayor Paterno Santiano reassumed his post as a mayor after a very much contested election results.
• The year 1960, when Crespo reassumes his post as Mayor of Cabiao, and the appointment of Pedro T. Wycoco as the Chief of Police. The Gapan- Arayat Road, Cabiao Section were constructed by Golangco Construction and Development Corp. in 1963.
• In 1979 the town’s Public Market was rehabilitated through the help of the member of the Parliament Angel Concepcion for which main building was constructed contiguously from the previous two small one.The town of Cabiao was governed by Mayor Crespo for almost three decades bringing together town folks of Cabiao to be one living in peace and serves as the legacy for which Mayor Crespo was known.
• The EDSA Revolution of 1986, was the year when Mayor Crespo was dislodged by the appointment as of Atty. Antonio Ll.Lapuz as Officer in Charge of Cabiao. During his tenure the inception of the municipal development planning were made, and listing of priority projects were categorized, however fundings for these infrastructure were no longer made in his tenure because it had lasted only for two and half years.
• Atty. Lapuz was succeeded by Eng’r. Ireneo Manahan, who bested in the three way election fight during that time, followed the pattern and plans for which Atty. Lapuz have laid before he left his office. He continue in building roads, barangay health,and brgy. hall including the renovation of the municipal town hall. It was also during that time, that the Sta. Isabel- Bagong Sikat Bridge has been initially built however due to the insufficiency of funds the said bridge has not been finished during his tenure. He had also built a community under his name which later name as Manahan Village.
• Cabiao

  A town
• Uprising in Cabiao against Spanish domination and tyranny


  September 2, 1896
• Participants in the uprising

  • 700 men (461 listed in the Tablet of Heroes in the Municipal Compound)
  • Townsfolk of Cabiao
  • Cabiao Brass Band
  • Capitan Municipal Mariano Nuñez Llanera
  • People of the neighboring towns of Arayat, Deliquente (San Antonio) & Jaen
• In his last term of office, mayor Manahan endorse councilor Gloria Baby Crespo Congco as his successor, the eldest daughter of former Mayor Gregorio Crespo and was elected mayor of the municipality in 1998. She is the youngest and the first woman to be elected chief executive of the town. She was also re-elected in the elections of 2001 and 2004.
• The uprising in Cabiao was marked as the First Cry of Nueva Ecija
• Spanish Colonial Government ceded the Archipelago of Philippines to the United States


  December 10, 1898
• Cabiao


  Derived its name from its vandalized Malay origin kabyawan (gilingan[same Malay meaning]) in previous Malay form: karyawan- meaning writer at present) meaning grinding tools that used for crushing
• This brought about the Treaty of Paris, and once again the Philippines was under colonial rule this time by the American
• Declaration of Philippine Republic in Malolos


  January 23, 1899
• Cabiao heroes participated in the declaration of Philippine Republic in Malolos
• The abundance of sugar during the pre-Spanish era is evident in a wide area of kabyaw including the area going to the foot of Mount Arayat
• During the Philippine–American War, Cabiao was one of the fiercely battled terrains of the American forces in pursuit of General Aguinaldo's Forces