1972 in the Philippines

Incumbents

• President: Ferdinand Marcos
• Vice President: Fernando Lopez
• House Speaker: Cornelio Villareal
• Chief Justice: Roberto Concepcion
• Congress: 7th

  Events

• June 25 – Typhoon Konsing landfalls on Luzon. It caused 131 deaths and $15 million worth of damage.
• August 26 to September 10 – The Philippines participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
• September 21
• * Martial law was declared by President Marcos as Proclamation No. 1081 signed by law led to the establishment of his dictatorship and was simulcasted through national radio and television broadcasts nationwide by midnight of September 23, causing series of round-ups by police and military forces, forced ban on public rallies, tight security, strict censorship on all forms of mass media, closures of business establishments and dissolution of bicameral congress ; as well as arrest of critiques of Marcoses, notable people who are arrested such as Ka Louie Beltran, Maximo Soliven, Satur Ocampo, Benigno Aquino, Jr., Chino Roces and the Lopez family
• * Assassination attempt of Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile.
• September 23
• * Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. was arrested.
• * ABC 5 and ABS-CBN shut down radio-television operations due to Martial law.
• * Manila Chronicle shuts down newspaper operations.

  Unknown

• Marikina hosts the 1972 ISF Men's World Championship in which ten nations participated.

  Births

• January 30 - Zoren Legaspi, Filipino actor and film director
• April 27 - Manilyn Reynes, Filipina actress and singer
• April 28 - Romnick Sarmenta, Filipino actor
• June 25 - Chokoleit
• October 10 – Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter

  Deaths

• April 26 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes