page_title: History of Guam
section_title: Spanish era
hierarchical_section_title: History of Guam / Spanish era
caption_attribution_description: English: "Reception of the Manila Galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, ca. 1590" English Translated Caption from the book "The Boxer Codex: Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pacific, South-east and East Asia" by George Bryan Souza and Jeffrey Scott Turley, with comments from Professor Charles Ralph Boxer, the manuscript's namesake. The scene depicts early encounters of the Spanish Manila Galleon with the Chamorro inhabitants of the Marianas Islands, called by the Spaniards as "Ladrones" meaning thieves, circa 1590 AD within the Boxer Codex, as its first illustration in the first few pages. It is a foldout (24 in. by 8 in. or 61 cm. by 20 cm.), the only one in the Codex which depicts a trading encounter between a Manila Galleon and "Ladrones" (Chamorro) in outrigger canoes.
context_page_description: The history of Guam involves phases including the early arrival of Austronesian people known today as the Chamorros around 2000 BC, the development of "pre-contact" society, Spanish colonization in the 17th century and the present American rule of the island since the 1898 Spanish–American War. Guam's history of colonialism is the longest among the Pacific islands.
caption: Reception of the Manila Galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, ca. 1590 Boxer Codex
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