1976 in the Philippines

Incumbents

• President: Ferdinand Marcos
• Chief Justice: Roberto Concepcion

  Events

• April 30 – At least 28 persons were killed in a bus crash near Manila.
• May 20–24 – Flooding in the wake of a typhoon killed 215 persons and left 60,000 homeless in Luzon Island.
• July 17 – August 1 – The Philippines competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. The Asian nation sent only eleven athletes to Montreal, its smallest delegation since 1932, to compete in track and field, boxing, shooting, swimming and weightlifting.
• August 16 – The Moro Gulf earthquake took place near the islands of Mindanao and Sulu, in the Philippines. The magnitude was calculated as being as high as 8.0 on the moment magnitude scale. According to reports, the earthquake was recorded around 16:10 UTC. At least 5,000 people died during the earthquake followed by tsunami.
• August 26 - Bernabe Buscayno also known as Kumander Dante of the New People's Army arrested
• August 29 – A boat capsized in Davao River, leaving 19 persons missing and presumed dead.
• October 16–17 – National referendum-plebiscite was called in which the majority of the barangay voters approved that Martial Law should be continued and ratified the proposed amendments to the Constitution substituting the Interim Batasang Pambansa for the Regular Batasang Pambansa, pursuant to Presidential Decrees Nos. 991, 1031, and 1032.
• December 23 – The Tripoli Agreement was signed

  Births

• February 2 – Ana Roces, singer and actress
• February 7 – Chito Miranda, singer-songwriter and frontman of Parokya ni Edgar
• February 18 – Bernadette Sembrano, broadcast journalist
• April 21 – Rommel Adducul, basketball player
• May 30 - Ebe Dancel, singer-songwriter and music arranger
• August 28 - Acel Bisa, singer-songwriter and musician
• December 10 - Clem Castro, musician

  Deaths

• June 12 – Guillermo Tolentino, sculptor and National Artist of the Philippines