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March 1 – 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority. June 13 – Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories. July 29 – White Pass and Yukon Route opens (Skagway–Whitehorse). August – Donald Farquharson becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing A. B. Warburton.
1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1898th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 898th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1890s decade. As of the ...
The Toronto Catholic District School Board [14] also voted on May 17, 2018 to declare June 12th as Filipino Heritage Day and June as Filipino Heritage Month, across all Catholic elementary and secondary schools in Toronto. As of June 2018, there are 168 elementary schools, 31 secondary schools, and three combined (elementary and secondary) schools.
June 12 is the 163rd day of the year ... Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Philippines from Spain in 1898. June 12 Commemoration (Lagos State)
Philippine revolutionaries had declared independence from Spain on June 12, 1898, and resisted the imposition of American sovereignty. The 1899 Battle of Manila between American and Filipino forces on February 4-5, 1899 ignited the Philippine-American War , which concluded with an American victory in 1902.
Independence Day [1] (Filipino: Araw ng Kasarinlán; also known as Araw ng Kalayaan, "Day of Freedom") is a national holiday in the Philippines observed annually on June 12, [2] commemorating the declaration of Philippine independence from Spain in 1898. [2] Since 1978, it has been the country's National Day.
The day specifically commemorates Union soldiers enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas on June 19, 1865 — freeing the remaining enslaved African Americans at the end of the Civil War.
In 1898, Bautista became the first adviser to President Emilio Aguinaldo and subsequently wrote the Declaration of Philippine Independence. [2] Contrary to common belief, it was Bautista, and not Aguinaldo, who waved the Philippine flag before the crowd on June 12, 1898, during the Philippine Proclamation of Independence in Cavite. [3] [2]