Battle of Mactan

Battle of Mactan Gubat sa Mactan  (Cebuano) Labanan sa Mactan  (Tagalog) Batalla de Mactán  (Spanish)
A mural painting depicting the Battle of Mactan
Date 27 April 1521 Location Mactan, Cebu, Philippines Result Decisive Kingdom of Mactan victory Death of Ferdinand Magellan
Belligerents
Kingdom of Mactan	Rajahnate of Cebu Magellan expedition
Commanders and leaders
Lapu-Lapu	Ferdinand Magellan † Rajah Humabon Datu Zula
Strength
1,500 native warriors (Antonio Pigafetta accounted)	49 Spanish explorers, and about 200-300 allied native warriors.
Casualties and losses
several killed and wounded	At least 14 killed, including Magellan (Spaniards), and at least 150 native warriors.

Decisive Kingdom of Mactan victory

The Battle of Mactan (Cebuano: Gubat sa Mactan; Tagalog: Labanan sa Mactan; Spanish: Batalla de Mactán) was fought in the Philippines on 27 April 1521, prior to Spanish colonization. The warriors of Lapu-Lapu, a native chieftain of Mactan Island, overpowered and defeated a Spanish force fighting for Rajah Humabon of Cebu, under the command of Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in the battle.

On 16 March 1521 (Spanish calendar), Magellan sighted the mountains of what is now Samar while on a mission to find a westward route to the Moluccas Islands for Spain. This event marked the arrival of the first documented Europeans in the Archipelago. The following day, Magellan ordered his men to anchor their ships on the shores of Homonhon Island.

There, Magellan befriended Rajah Kolambu and Rajah Siagu the chieftain of Limasawa, who guided him to Cebu. He and his queen were baptized into the Catholic faith, taking the Christian names Carlos, in honor of King Charles of Spain, and Juana, in honor of King Charles' mother. To commemorate this event, Magellan gave Juana the Santo Niño, an image of the infant Jesus, as a symbol of their new alliance and held their first mass in the coast.

As a result of Magellan's influence with Rajah Humabon, an order had been issued to the nearby chiefs that each of them were to provide food supplies for the ships, and convert to Christianity.

Most chiefs obeyed the order. However, Datu Lapu-Lapu, one of the two chiefs within the island of Mactan, was the only chieftain to show his opposition. Lapu-Lapu refused to accept the authority of Rajah Humabon in these matters. This opposition proved to be influential when Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan's voyage chronicler, writes,

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