ĭuring the First Regular Season of the 14th Congress of the Philippines, Senator Richard Gordon introduced a bill proposing to declare April 27 as an official Philippine national holiday to be known as Adlaw ni Lapu-Lapu, ( Cebuano, "Day of Lapu-Lapu"). Lapu-Lapu appears on the official seal of the Philippine National Police and as the main design on the defunct 1-centavo coin circulated in the Philippines from 1967-1974. Another statue stands in Rizal Park in the national capital of Manila. The government erected a statue in his honour on Mactan Island and renamed the town of Opon in Cebu to Lapu-Lapu City. During the battle Magellan and several of his men were killed. On the morning of April 27, 1521, Lapu-Lapu led 1,500 Mactan warriors armed with barong, spears, kampilan, and kalasag, in a battle against Portuguese explorer and conquistador Ferdinand Magellan who led a force of forty-nine Spanish soldiers armed with guns in what would later be known as the Battle of Mactan. Lapu-Lapu became the Datu of Mactan before the Spanish arrived in the archipelago.
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