Timeline of Events in the History of Filipinos in America
| 1600s | Spanish bring Chinese and Filipinos to Mexico. |
| 1763 | Filipinos desert Spanish ship in New Orleans, establish first Filipino community in US in Louisiana bayou. |
| 1898 | US wins the Philippines after Spanish-American War. |
| 1903 | Filipino students arrive in U.S under the pensionado program, an effort to modernize and democratize the Philippines. |
| 1907 | Filipino laborers land in Hawaii. |
| 1913 | California passes law to prevent aliens ineligible for citizenship from owning land. |
| 1924 | In response to concerns about rising immigration, Immigration Act establishes strict quotas based on national origin according to the 1880 census, effectively ending Asian immigration. |
| 1952 | McCarran-Walter Act abolishes race an immigration criterion, sets quotas by nation. |
| 1956 | California repeals alien landownership laws. |
| 1965 | Immigration Act abolishes country preferences. Asian immigration increases. |
| 1986 | In wake of record immigration, both legal and illegal, Congress sought to limit number of illegal aliens in US. |
| 1990 | Immigration Act raised the total quota and reorganized system of preferences. Nearly 5 million immigrants arrive from Asian countries. |
Figures / Statistics originally posted in July 2009.
