Jump to content

1899 in the Philippines

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

First Philippine Republic 1899
in
the Philippines

Decades:
See also:

The following lists events that happened during 1899 in the Philippine Republic.

Incumbents

[edit]
President Emilio Aguinaldo c. 1898.

First Philippine Republic

[edit]

U.S. Military Government

[edit]

Events

[edit]

January

[edit]

February

[edit]
  • February 45 – 12,000 American troops advanced through 2 miles of Filipino front at the Battle of Manila. It was the first and largest battle of the Philippine–American War, resulting to 60 American dead and 2,000 Filipino dead.
  • February 10 – A brigade of American soldiers attacked Filipino troops after 3 hours of artillery bombardment at the Battle of Caloocan. The capture of Caloocan left American forces in control of the southern terminus of the Manila to Dagupan railway, along with five engines, fifty passenger coaches, and a hundred freight cars.[2]

March

[edit]

April

[edit]

May

[edit]

June

[edit]

July

[edit]

October

[edit]

November

[edit]
  • November 13 – President Aguinaldo, after a conference in Bayambang, Pangasinan, declared guerrilla warfare in the continued Filipino struggle against American occupation.[7]

December

[edit]
  • December 2 – A 60-man rear guard action led by General Gregorio del Pilar fought 500 American troops who were pursuing President Aguinaldo in his flight to land's end.
  • December 11 – Filipino General Tierona surrenders the province of Cagayan to U.S. Navy Captain McCalla of the USS Newark.

Holidays

[edit]

As a former colony of Spanish Empire and being a catholic country, the following were considered holidays:[citation needed]

Deaths

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Bohol participation in the Philippine Revolution". Webline Bohol, Philippines. Provincial Government of Bohol. 1999. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  2. ^ Linn, Brian McAllister (2000). The Philippine War, 1899-1902. University Press of Kansas. pp. 56–57. ISBN 978-0-7006-1225-3.
  3. ^ "Time Zones in Philippines". timeanddate.com. Archived from the original on January 23, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "Record of Current Events | (From May 31 to June 30) | The Fighting in the Philippines". The American Monthly Review of Reviews: 25–29. July 1899.
  5. ^ Worcester, D.C. (2018). The Philippines Past and Present: Volume I. Outlook Verlag. p. 86. ISBN 978-3-7326-6485-6.
  6. ^ Gregg Jones, Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream (Penguin Publishing Group, 2012) p. 108
  7. ^ Linn, Brian McAllister (2000). The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902. UNC Press Books. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-8078-4948-4.