[5] This hard wall refers to a rock formation found on the banks of the Jalaur River in barangay Namatay situated in the eastern part of the municipality.

"Most Honored"), a Malay datu of Sumandig and the Suludnon god of gifts and graces in the 29,000-verse epic Hinilawod, one of the longest known in the world, built his home with his wife Uwang Matan-ayon (lit.

[9] These worshippers would stealthily enter a certain cave in the evening of a certain day of the year in order to render homage and to offer poultry, doves, rice, bananas, and pigs to the ancient Visayan god.

[6] In 1586, Datu Disayaran, the chief of the Siwaragan settlement who traces his descent from Sumandig, and his son Datu Bantugan, led the serious abortive revolt against the Spaniards in Dingle, known at this point as Baong, by the descendants of the settlers from Borneo, the native priests called maaram, and the marauding Ati who refused conversion to the Catholic faith.

[11] Through the intervention of the friars, the townspeople were led back to the pueblo after they have hunkered down from the mountains while soldiers were dying from lack of food after all the rice and every supply in the convent have been consumed.

[11] This was motivated by the decrease in population, as many townspeople had left because of fear of the Atis, the so-called remontados, who would suddenly come down from the mountains to plunder their ricefields.

[12] In 1634, Fray Alonso de Méntrida managed to secure a seemingly independent existence for the settlement but in 1641, the pueblo became so small[12] when it was again depopulated that it was annexed as a visita to Laglag, present-day Dueñas, and remained as such for 182 years.

[5] On November 21, 1849, governor-general Clavería issued a decree requiring Filipinos to adopt Spanish and indigenous names from the Catalogo Alfabetico de Apellidos for civil and legal purposes.

As such, surnames starting with the digraphs da- and de- were distributed to Dingle, e.g. Dairo, Daguro, Dayatan, Deaño, Deatrás.

[12] In 1865, Fray Fernando Llorente y Santos ordered the continuation of the construction of the current structure of the Parish Church of St. John the Baptist which was completed in 1886.

[12] Cry of Lincud During the second phase of the Philippine Revolution against Spain during the Spanish–American War, Dingle staged the first armed uprising in the province of Iloilo and in the island of Panay.

719, an Act reducing the fifty-one municipalities of the province of Iloilo to seventeen, Dingle, alongside Mina, was annexed to Pototan under the Americans, the latter being larger in population and was economically more prosperous.

[19] Nonetheless, through the efforts of then Iloilo 4th District Assemblyman Adriano Hernández y Dayot, the separation of the town from Pototan was given impetus in 1907.

[5] During his second term in office as municipal president (1919–1922), Julio Dayot Muyco became responsible for the establishment of the first peuriculture center in Dingle which extended basic health services to the townspeople.

[24] Shortly after the establishment of American rule, the Philippine islands were afflicted by cholera and dysentery epidemics which caused the death of more than 200,000 people.

[5] Water In 1926, during the term of office of Luís R. Dayot as municipal president, the Iloilo Metropolitan Waterworks, created by virtue of Commonwealth Act No.

Immediately after the U.S. declaration of war on Japan on December 8, 1941, a squadron of Japanese planes flew over Dingle on its way to bomb Iloilo City.

[5] Only when a lone straggler, on its way from the bombing mission overflew the town at a very low altitude and directed bursts of machine gun fire against the citizen army training center, now Camp Adriano D. Hernandez, did the townspeople seek some sort of shelter.

[5] Iloilo Civil Resistance Government In Iloilo, the civil resistance government, with headquarters at Barrio Moroboro, Dingle, was headed by Tomás Confesor as wartime governor of free Panay and Romblon with former Dingle municipal president Luís R. Dayot who, as assistant, helped finance the war effort in Panay.

[5] A passing Japanese patrol rounded up 14 able-bodied Dingleanons suspected of being guerillas and were later beheaded on Dayot Street, behind the town's Catholic church.

Gen. Noé D. Dayot, survivors of the 1942 Bataan Death March, joined the former after they were released as prisoners of war in Capas, Tarlac.

[5] These ambushes, however, often resulted in heightened enemy operations, then called "penetration" involving reprisal raids and search and destroy missions conducted against the civilian population.

[22] Post-war rehabilitation The war against Japan officially ended on September 2, 1945 with the signing of the term of formal surrender of the Japanese Imperial Government.

[22] He initiated rehabilitation schemes for the municipality, with priorities extended to the peace and order situation, the re-establishment of classes, and the reconstruction of damaged roads and public buildings.

[22] Julián Masna was appointed municipal mayor in 1945 during the last days of the Commonwealth government under President Sergio Osmeña, and continued the reconstruction and rehabilitation work begun by Julio Dayot Muyco.

[25] In 1955, President Ramon Magsaysay personally inaugurated the Jalaur Diversion Irrigation Dam constructed at Barrio Moroboro during the administration of municipal mayor Alfonso Muyco Espino and vice-mayor Maximiliano D. Dayot for the benefit of about 11,0000 farmers and 14,000 hectares of farmland in the municipalities of Dingle, Zarraga, Pototan, Barotac Nuevo, Dumangas, Anilao, and Banate.

This social class inherited their vast estates from their pre-Spanish ancestors[39] and only its members were allowed to vote and be elected to public office.

[5][14] The gobernadorcillo was elected from among the ranks of the principalía by twelve senior cabezas de barangay, the latter being the Spanish-era equivalent of the pre-colonial datu (i.e., lord).

Of note, the brothers-in-law Don Magdaleno Muyco (Tan Mano), who was married to Doña Nicolasa Dayot (Tana Kulasa), and Don Luís Cantalicio Dayot (Tan Cantaling), the longest-serving gobernadorcillo of the pueblo, sold a number of their vast landholdings (haciendas) to pay for the tributes of their constituents during their years in office as gobernadorcillos.

[42] However, a royal decree dated December 20, 1863 (signed in the name of Queen Isabella II by the Minister of the Colonies, José de la Concha) extended the distinction as principales to citizens paying 50 pesos in land tax.