1897 - One year and some two months after the Philippine
Revolution broke out, colonial Spanish Governor-General Primo de Rivera
issues a decree calling for Filipino volunteers
in all provinces in the main islands of Luzon and the Visayas and in
all districts in Mindanao; coming nearly two months before the Pact of Biak na Bato
creating a truce between the colonial government and the revolutionary
forces led by Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo, (who seized power from Generalissimo Andres Bonifacio y de Castro, Supremo of the secret society-turned-revolutionary-government Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK) that launched the Himagsikan against Spain in 1896), the volunteers, to be
armed, paid, and equipped at the expense of the government, are
required to be able-bodied and between the ages of 18-50.
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| First Philippine Assembly |
1907 - The first Philippine Assembly under the imperialist United States colonial government is inaugurated eight years and eight months into the bloodily protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914);
members of the colonial Philippine Assembly, effectively the lower
house counterpart to the all-American Philippine Commission, were
earlier 'elected' from a voting exercise participated only by some 1.5% of the Filipino population owing to the severe and elitist qualification requirement, with majority of the members coming from Sergio S. Osmena's (pro-immediate independence) Nacionalista Party.
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