Antonio de Morga's
"Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas"

Antonio de Morga Sanchez Garay Y Lopez de Garfias

He is a Spanish conquistador, government official, and historical anthropologist.
He is the one who produced the first lay official history of Spain's invasion of the Philippines.
An author of the book "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" which means "The Events in the Philippine Island".
The book narrates about the history of wars, intrigues diplomacy, and evangelization.
The book was published in Mexico in 1609.
He is doctorate in canon and civil law.

Morga's Work

The value of Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas has long been recognzed. A first-hand account of the early Spanish colinial venture into Asia.

The book is based on personal experiences, or on documentation from eye-witness of the events described. Moreover, as he tells us himself survivors from Legazpi's expedition were still alive while he was preparing his book in Manila and these too he could consult.