Close to the end of the century,in 1899, the Muslims, under the leadership of Sultan Amay Untad Panduma, founded a settlement in Tukuran.

Each datu considered himself as the most outstanding and powerful chieftain of the place and yet he had no more loyal subjects than his relatives and slaves.

On March 12, 1890, a fortified station named after the member of the royal family fort Alfonso XII locally known as fort Militar was built to stop the Moro from their slave-raiding activities against the Subanu people to Christians, and to facilitate their pacification on Mindanao campaign of colonization in general.

Due to the ongoing piratical raids, the people transferred the seat of the government to Labangan in 1921; settlers began to arrive.

As a result of the heavy influx of the settlers from Luzon and Visayas there was fragile co-existence among the indigenous Moro, Lumads and Christian populations.

In Luy-a and Camanga, Subanens retreated to the hinterlands and the Iranun Muslims gradually transferred to Labangan.

[5] The first contact with the Americans since World War II began was on March 5, 1943, when the US submarine Tambor passed by in Tukuran and distributed supplies.

In the morning of January 25, 1945 at about 11:00 a US sea plane "Santa Catalina" landed on the beach to unload supplies.

Lab-asiros (fish traders) have usually experienced difficulty in transporting the tuna to Curvada due to the sticky mud in going to Tukuran proper.

Lab-aseros(fish traders), had usually experienced a difficulty in transporting the tuna to Curvada due to its sticky muddy road going to the trading center.

Trucks from Aurora stayed only at Curvada because of the poor road condition and only waited for the lab-aseros to come and sell.

This decade was characterized by military instability and natural calamities that affected the people's socio-economic activity.

The Barracuda – Ilaga Conflict Commander Toothpick, a Tiruray tribal warrior was known to fight against alleged Muslim terrorism and exploitation.

In May, the rebels in front of the burned Municipal hall of Labangan kidnapped Father O'Halpin, the parish priest of Tukuran, on his way back to the town, but he was released later.

Even though the 29th IB, Philippine Army had intercepted the rebels at Lambayong now Baranggay Panduma Sr. which is seventy five meters from the shore, the Barracudas were able to take hostage a pumpboat operator along the way and were successful in taking over the Shell Depot which is located just a few meters from the shore.

Blockades by the 29th IB, PA at Tukuran River prevented them to penetrate the town center; they were forced to retreat to the hinterlands of Libertad.

As they retreated, passing Barangay Baclay, they ambushed the Parish Priest of Aurora, Father Paulo Kill and luckily, he survived.

Francisco D. Boter, the municipal registrar, in his article in Pagadian Times reported: "Like a volcano that had erupted, Tukuran became a ghost town with only a handful of people roaming the streets with the mournful howling of scraggy dogs now and then disturbing the cemetery-like silence and solitude that pervaded the ones buzzing and taming residents.

"[citation needed] On the evening of August 17, 1976, tsunami ravaged Illana Bay or 1976 Moro Gulf earthquake.

The decade of 70s left three marks: first, as the years of ashes that brought destruction to Poblacion that caused severe economic breakdown of the municipality.

Third, was the Ilaga-Barracuda conflict in Tukuran that brought famine and hunger to the people and the very reason of the depopulation of the municipality.

Many of them transferred to neighboring towns of Aurora, Molave, Bonifacio, Pagadian, and even going back to Visayan islands, their homeland, if only to secure their life.

This was because of the Marcos dictatorship, communist movement had spread in the whole archipelago in an aim to change the routine style of the government.

[5] After the EDSA Revolution, Isaias Barrido was appointed as municipal mayor as part of the reorganization program of Aquino government.

The issue on the CPP-NPA struggle was eventually resolved due to the implementation of various projects which focused on both socio-economic and socio-cultural aspects.

By the advent of IRA the barangays comprising the municipality were provided with increased shares of the financial resources of the government with the aim of enhancing the delivery of basic services to the people for the second time he was elected.

He continued the construction of municipal streets, hanging bridge, solar driers, water reservoir, basketball courts, and farm to market roads to fasten the development of rural barangays.

Poverty incidence of Tukuran Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] The town is primarily agricultural with rice as its main crop.

The fish caught in the western towns, due to costly transportation, are either salted or dried and sold to neighboring provinces.

Municipal Fiesta – A yearly celebration of the Our Lady of Star of the Sea under the Diocese of Pagadian City.