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1898 | 12 June - The Philippines, with Aguinaldo as leader, declare themselves independent from Spain |
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1898 | August - Siege of Manilla, ends with the surrender of the Spanish to the Americans |
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1898 | 22 August - General Elwell Otis arrives to replace General Merritt and become the first Military General of the Philippines |
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1898 | September - General Antonio Luna is appointed Director of War by Aguinaldo |
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1898 | November - Anti-Imperialist League is formed in Boston |
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1898 | 10 December - Treaty of Paris signed, Spain recognises the independence of Cuba; cedes Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands to the US
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1898 | 21 December - President William Mckinley announces his decision to keep the Philippines as an American colonial possession - "Benevolent Assimilation" |
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1899 | 5 January - Aguinaldo issues a counter-proclamation |
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1899 | 29 January - Aguinaldo elected president |
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1899 | 4 February - Outbreak of hostilities |
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1899 | 8-12 February - Battle of Iloilo |
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1899 | 22 February - Cebu City on the island of Cebu and Iloilo on Panay both fall to American troops
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1899 | 24 March-16 August 1899 - Battle of Malolos
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1899 | 8-17 April - Battle of Laguna de Bay |
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1899 | 21 April-30 May - Battle of San Isidro |
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1899 | 25 April - Battle of Calumpit |
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1899 | 12 June - Luna is assassinated by Cavite soldiers loyal to Aguinaldo |
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1899 | 13 June - Battle of Zapote River |
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1899 | 7-13 October - Battle of Cavite |
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1899 | 15 October-l9 November - Battle of San Isidro |
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1899 | 6-19 November - Battle of San Fabian |
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1899 | 5-20 November - Battle of Tarlac |
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1899 | 19 December - American General Henry Lawton was killed in the Battle of San Mateo |
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1899 | 2 December - Battle of Tirad Pass |
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1899 | 2 December - Pilar is killed and 1,100 Filipinos under Colonel Danilo Tirona surrender
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1899 | 31 December - Lukban gathers 100 Filipino riflemen and proclaims himself the new governor of Samar under the Philippine Republic
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1900 | 4 January-9 February - Battle of Cavite |
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1900 | 17 March - American forces occupy the island of Bohol |
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1900 | 2 May - MacArthur replaces Otis as Military Governor of the Philippines
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1900 | June - Taft Commission arrives to set up a civilian government |
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1901 | July - General Miguel Malvar takes over Aguinaldo’s former position and continues the resistance
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1901 | U.S. President McKinley assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt sworn in as successor |
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1901 | February - James Franklin Bell is put in charge of the 1st District of Northern Luzon, where he begins his "zone" policy
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1901 | 2 February - Formal inauguration of the Partido Federal, and the Filipino forces in Panay surrender
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1901 | 8 March - Battle of Lonoy |
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1901 | 15 March - Mariano Trias, Aguinaldo's second in command, surrenders to the Americans with 130 Caviteño troops
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1901 | 23 March - Aguinaldo captured by Funston |
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1901 | July - Second Philippine Commission, headed by William Howard Taft, is officially installed at Manila
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1901 | 4 July - MacArthur transferrs his responsibility as governor to Taft and general to Adna Chaffee
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1901 | 26 September - The Balangiga Massacre, American troops initiate a policy of "kill and burn", under the leadership of Gen. Jacob Smith
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1901 | 30 November - Bell orders the forced relocation of almost the entire civilian population of the 1st District of S. Luzon into selected towns which served as prison camps, freeing him to destroy everything outside the "zones"
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1901 | 30 November - Franklin J. Bell takes over Sumner’s command |
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1901 | December - Island of Bohol surrenders to American troops |
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1902 | January - A Senate committee is formed to investigate the war |
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1902 | 26 February - Major Littleton Waller is relieved of duty, and charged with murder (later acquitted)
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1902 | 27 February - Lukban is captured, and resistance on Samar ends soon after |
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1902 | 16 April - Malvar surrenders |
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1902 | 4 July - President Roosevelt issues the official Peace Proclamation ending the war and granting pardon to the insurrectos
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1946 | 4 July - The Philippines are finally granted independence
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