7 NOVEMBER
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Aniceto Lacson y Ledesma |
1898 - The provisional revolutionary government in Negros is established and a constitution promulgated a day after Spanish capitulation to Filipino revolutionaries in Negros province during the Philippine Revolution; to be referred to as the Cantonal Republic of Negros, supposedly subordinate to the central government of the Revolutionary/First Philippine Republic, it has the following set of elected officers: Aniceto Lacson, President; Juan Araneta, Secretary of War; Eusebio Luzuriaga, Secretary of Treasury; Simeon Lizares, Secretary of Interior; Nicolas Golez, Secretary of Fomento; Antonio Jayme, Secretary of Justice; Agustin Amenablar, Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce; and Melecio Severino, Executive Secretary; the Spanish capitulation and succeeding inauguration of the Negros Republic and its constitution came came more than two months following the infamous Mock Battle of Manila wherein the emerging imperialist nation, the United States, and colonial Spain falsely made it appear before the world that it is the Americans, and not the Filipino, who defeated the Spanish colonizers.
1751 - Some two centuries into the Spanish colonial rule, an auditor of the Royal Audiencia of the colony, the Philippine Islands, Don Pedro Enriquez, reports on his pacification efforts for the villages of Taguig, Hagonoy, Paranaque, Bacoor, and Cavite Viejo; the colonial villages had staged revolts owing to onerous agrarian conditions but a general pardon has been proclaimed, along with the promise of hearing the natives' complaints and the carrying out of justice.
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