Martin pangan biography

Planned Filipino uprising against Spain

The Tondo Conspiracy of 1587, popularly known as the Conspiracy of the Maginoos (Spanish: La Conspiración de las Maginoos), also known as the Revolt of the Lakans, was a revolt planned by Tagalog nobles known as maginoos, led by Don Agustin de Legazpi of Tondo and his cousin Martin Pangan, to overthrow the Spanish government in the Philippines due to injustices against the Filipinos.^[1] It was territorially one of the largest conspiracies against the Spanish rule next to the Katipunan.

It ranged from provinces near Manila all the way to the Calamianes Islands near Palawan.^[2]

Legazpi sought help from a Japanese sea captain named Juan Gayo who was a Christian and asked for arms and warriors to fight alongside them in exchange for one-half of the tributes collected in the Philippines.^[1] They also requested help from places such as Borneo, Laguna, and Batangas with a plan to assault the