Executive Order No. 78 Separating Calatagan from the Municipality of Balayan
The western Batangas municipality of Calatagan was acquired from the Spanish crown by Domingo Roxas in 1829 and used to be called Hacienda...
Formation of Towns and Cities
Republic Act No. 11086 Establishing the City of Santo Tomas, Batangas
Santo Tomas is the Province of Batangas’ fourth and newest city, converted from a municipality in 2018. It is Batangas’ northernmost geo-...
Executive Order No. 127 Separating Lian from Nasugbu
The western Batangas coastal town of Lian is in the present day a 3 rd income class municipality with a land area of 3,119.75 square kilo...
Executive Order No. 69 1922 Transferring Tingloy and other Barrios from Mabini to Bauan
The present-day Municipality of Tingloy was like a volleyball being tossed from one town to the other during the American colonial era. In...
Creation of the Pueblo of Cuenca in Batangas, 1876 (Spanish)
The town of Cuenca in Batangas is a 4 th income class municipality with a land area of 58.18 square kilometers and a population of 32,783 ...
Executive Order No. 85 1917 Creating the Municipality of Mabini
Mabini is a 1 st income class municipality on the Calumpang Peninsula in the Province of Batangas. It used to be part of the larger town ...
Republic Act No. 1229 Creating the Municipality of San Nicolas
The present-day lakeshore town of San Nicolas in Batangas used to be the site of old Taal, until the violent and prolonged eruption of the ...
Executive Order No. 85 Series of 1910 Separating Tuy from Balayan
Tuy is a small town in western Batangas with a land area of 94.65 square square kilometers and a population of 43,743 as per the 2015 Phili...
Executive Order No. 43 Creating the Municipality of Alitagtag
The present-day town of Alitagtag in Batangas used to be part of the older and larger town of Bauan until the year 1910. The previous yea...
Republic Act No. 9005 Creating the City of Tanauan
Tanauan became the Province of Batangas’ third city in 2001 when Republic Act 9005 was ratified. The city is classified as 2 nd income cl...
Executive Order No. 212 Creating the Municipality of Agoncillo
The Municipality of Agoncillo along the shores of Taal Lake used to be part of Lemery, which in turn was also part of Taal. In 1945, a com...
Republic Act No. 6116 Creating the Municipality of San Pascual
The municipality of San Pascual along the Batangas Bay used to be a barrio named Lagnas which used to be part of the larger municipality of...
Republic Act No. 162 Creating the City of Lipa
The City of Lipa began as a small pueblo along the shores of Lake Bombon, presently Taal Lake, founded by Augustinian missionaries early in...
Act No. 1514 Separating Talisay from the Municipality of Tanauan, 1906
In 1903, Act Numbered 958 of the Philippine Commission reduced from 22 to 16 the number of municipalities under the Province of Batangas. ...
Republic Act No. 5659 Creating the Town of Balete, Batangas
The municipality of Balete used to be a barrio of Lipa until it was formally established as a distinct town in 1969 by Republic Act 5669, t...
Executive Order No. 279 Creating the Municipality of Padre Garcia, Batangas
The Municipality of Padre Garcia used to be the old site of the by-now neighboring town of Rosario until the latter moved to its present-da...
Republic Act No. 5689 Creating the Municipality of Laurel, Batangas
The lakeside Municipality of Laurel in Batangas used to be part of Talisay and even Taal during the Spanish colonial era. In the 1960s sev...
Act No. 1244 Transferring Several Barrios of Tanauan to Taal, 1904
In 1904, the Philippine Commission saw fit to transfer jurisdiction over several barrios of Tanauan to the Municipality of Taal. These bar...
Republic Act No. 5495 Creating the City of Batangas
The City of Batangas was founded as a pueblo by Augustinian missionaries as early as the 16 th century, but it became a city as recently a...
Executive Order No. 454, s. 1961 Creating Santa Teresita, Batangas
The case of the Municipality of Santa Teresita in Batangas is somewhat peculiar in the sense when it was created in 1961, its territory con...