1971 in the Philippines

Incumbents

• President: Ferdinand Marcos
• Vice President: Fernando Lopez
• House Speaker: José Laurel, Jr., Cornelio Villareal
• Chief Justice: Roberto Concepcion
• Congress: 7th

  Events

• February 1–9 – Diliman commune
• June 1 – The Constitutional Convention assembles to rewrite the 1935 Constitution. The Convention elects former President Carlos Garcia as its head.
• June 14 – Garcia dies and former President Diosdado Macapagal takes over the top position at the Convention.
• June 19 – Manili massacre
• August 21 – The Plaza Miranda bombing occurred during a political campaign rally of the Liberal Party at Plaza Miranda in the district of Quiapo, Manila in the Philippines on August 21, 1971. It caused nine deaths and injured 95 others, including many prominent Liberal Party politicians.
• August 22 – President Marcos suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus
• October 10 – Leonardo “Nardong Putik” Manecio, one of the most notorious gangsters and dubbed as Cavite’s Public Enemy No. 1 was killed in Imus early morning after NBI agents engaged him in a highway shootout.
• November 8 – Senatorial elections were held in the Philippines. The opposition Liberal Party took 5 seats in the Philippine Senate while 3 seats were taken by the Nacionalista Party, the administration party.

  Unknown dates

• Moro National Liberation Front is formally established by Nur Misuari in an island in Malaysia.

  Births

• February 1 – Cathy Yap-Yang, TV business journalist
• February 14 – Kris Aquino, Filipina actress and TV host
• February 22 – Lea Salonga, Filipina Broadway actress
• February 24 – Paolo Abrera, Filipino actor, TV host and commercial model
• May 16 - Gary Estrada
• July 21 - Paco Arespacochaga
• July 23 – Eugene Domingo, Filipino actress
• August 1 - Tina Paner
• August 26 - Antonio Trillanes, Senator of the Philippines
• October 27 – Niño Muhlach