page_title: History of the Philippines (900–1565)
section_title: Bruneian attacks
hierarchical_section_title: History of the Philippines (900–1565) / Arrival of Islam / Bruneian attacks
caption_attribution_description: English: Brunei territories in 1500.
context_page_description: The history of the Philippines between 900 and 1565 begins with the creation of the Laguna Copperplate Inscription in 900 and ends with Spanish colonisation in 1565. The inscription records its date of creation in the year 822 of the Hindu Saka calendar, corresponding to 900 AD in the Gregorian system. Therefore, the recovery of this document marks the end of prehistory of the Philippines at 900 AD. During this historical time period, the Philippine archipelago was home to numerous kingdoms and sultanates and was a part of the theorised Indosphere and Sinosphere.
  Sources of precolonial history include archeological findings, records from contact with the Song Dynasty, the Bruneian Empire, Japan, and Muslim traders, the genealogical records of Muslim rulers, accounts written by Spanish chroniclers in the 16th and 17th century, and cultural patterns which at the time had not yet been replaced through European influence.
context_section_description: Early in the 16th century, the Bruneian Empire under Sultan Bolkiah attacked the Kingdom of Tondo. Thus until the arrival of the Spanish, southern parts of Luzon and some islands further south have been at least nominally influenced by Islam.
caption: Around 1500, the Sultanate of Brunei controlled a western portion of the Philippine archipelago
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