Kadaugan sa Mactan 2013

Calendar of Activities

Date	Time	Venue	Activity
19-Apr Friday	7:00AM   6:00PM	Lapu-Lapu City Auditorium Liberty Shrine	Floral Offering   Opening of Food Festival
20-Apr Saturday	6:00PM 7:00PM   9:00PM	Liberty Shrine	Food Festival Mask Dance Extravaganza Live Band
21-Apr Sunday	6:00PM 9:00PM	Liberty Shrine	Food Festival Live Band
22-Apr Monday	6:00PM 9:00PM	Liberty Shrine	Food Festival Live Band
23-Apr Tuesday	6:00PM 7:00PM   9:00PM	Liberty Shrine	Food Festival Flair Tending Competition Live Band
24-Apr Wednesday	6:00PM 9:00PM	Liberty Shrine	Food Festival Live Band
25-Apr  Thursday	6:00PM 9:00PM	Liberty Shrine	Food Festival Live Band
26-Apr  Friday	7:00AM       4:00PM   5:30PM   6:00PM       8:00PM 9:00PM	M L Quezon National Highway     M L Quezon National Highway Liberty Shrine   360 Stage Fronting LLC Sports Complex Liberty Shrine Liberty Shrine Liberty Shrine	KSP Ingress       Sundown Beer Run LLC Dance Sport Kids Reyna Bulakna Pre-Judging   Food Festival Pre-Battle Ritual Fireworks Display
Apr-27 Saturday	6:00AM 8:00AM         9:00AM     9:05AM   9:10AM 9:30AM 10:10AM	Liberty Shrine           Viewing Stage/ VIP Stage	Holy Mass Flag Raising Military Honors (21 Gun Salute) Philippine Air Force Contingent KSM Re-enactment Flower Drop Welcome Remarks Speech Re-enactment Flower Drop
	3:00PM     4:00PM 5:00PM     7:00PM 11:00PM   12:00AM	M L Quezon National Highway	Kadaugan Street Party   Closure of Lanes Photography Contest Car Show RAMPADA Announcement of Winners Fireworks/Street Party

The Battle of Mactan History

It was on April 7,1521 when the three remaining galleons under the command of Fernando de Magallanes dropped anchor in Sawang (now Suburban San Nicolas, Cebu) to stay in port for 20 historic days, the longest stopover in the navigator’s epic voyage that started in Spain 1519.

With a characteristic display of supremacy, Magellan did not only subjugate the native chieftain of Sugbu, Rajah Humabon, but befriended the entire community leading to their conversion to Christianity by having the royal couple baptized and gifted with a small icon of the Holy Child or the Sto. Niño.

At that time, there was bad blood between Humabon and Lapu-Lapu hence, the former saw the opportunity to conquer his hated rival with the aid of superior arms.

Hearing about the stubbornness of Lapu-Lapu, Magellan lost no time to send a messenger bearing threats and boastful taunts, declaring that defiance would mean death.

The conditions imposed among others were to swear allegiance to Spain, payment of tribute to the King, abandonment of pagan beliefs and acceptance of a new faith. Failure to comply will be answered by sword and fire.

It was said that in defying the treats of Magellan and in being made to choose between servitude and extinction, Lapu-Lapu return the message with extreme pride saying: “I bow to no King, I only owe allegiance to my people”. Thus was triggered the Battle of Mactan on April 27, 1521.

Magellan was vanquished but the faith of Lapu-Lapu afterwards was not exactly known while the remaining crew of the expedition returned to Spain with Juan Sebastian Elcano receiving a hero’s welcome and earning the title as the first circumnavigator of the world.

It was not until 1979, when Lapu-Lapu’s victory was resurrected from buried memory with the first re-enactment of the battle which was conceptualized and implemented by the Customs Collector and concurrent Regional Director of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, David “Boy” Odilao dubbed as Bahug-Bahugsa Mactan. It took less than a day to finish the entire event and there was nothing to expect before and after.

After six years the commemorative celebration took another name and since then it became Kadauga n Sa Mactan. Except for the name, however, it remained the same celebration year after year.