Bustos Bulacan Philippines

Brief History of Bustos

Bustos was a part of this Municipality of Baliuag during the Spanish Regine, one stormy Sunday in 1862 a tragic incident happened when several babies due for baptism at the Catholic Church in Baliuag together with their parents and prospective godparents drowned when the "placenta" they were riding oncapsized while crossing the swollen Angat River. The catastrophe led high government official and civic leaders of the community anxiously pass resolution clamouring for their rights to be independent from Baliuag.

On April 29,1867 through the persistence painstaking efforts & sacrifices of its inhabitants, Bustos at long last was declared by the Council of Government of Philippines an independent municipality. The town was named "BUSTOS" after Don Pedro Jose de Bustos, an Austrian Mining Engineer,who was appointed Tenyente Heneral Alkalde of Bulacan and the right-hand of Simon de Anda y Salazar in recognition of his efforts and heroic deeds in the glorious battle that repelled the English from Manila and suburbs.

With the advent of the American Regime in 1899, Bustos again was municipal annexed to Baliuag. A courageous and outstanding son of Bustos, Martin H. Prado became the President of Baliuag. For the second time, Bustos become independent from Baliuag with the creation of the Philippines Assembly in October 1907, Assemblyman Ricardo Lloret Gonzales proposed a bill, proposing the independence of Bustos from Baliuag. The Philippine Commission, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, President of the United State of America, approved the said bill on Jan. 01, 1916 thus the independence to date of Bustos from Baliuag.