:1900 in the Philippines

File:Emilio Aguinaldo (ca. 1898).jpg Emilio Aguinaldo c. 1898.]]

• President: Emilio Aguinaldo

• Governor:
• Elwell Stephen Otis (until May 5)
• Arthur MacArthur, Jr. (starting May 5)

• February 2 – The Daily Bulletin (now Manila Bulletin) is established as the second oldest existing English language newspaper.{{Cite web|title=Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation|url=https://edge.pse.com.ph/companyInformation/form.do?cmpy_id=1|url-status=live|access-date=April 10, 2021|website=PSE Edge|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826100407/http://edge.pse.com.ph:80/companyInformation/form.do?cmpy_id=1 |archive-date=2016-08-26 }}

• April 7 – Resistance fighters led by Gen. Nicolas Capistrano{{cite web |url=https://cagayandeoro.fortunecity.ws/history.html |title=Cagayan de Oro History From Beginning to 1950 |date=1999 |website=cagayandeoro |publisher=undernet.org |access-date=March 17, 2024}} launch a failed surprise attack against the U.S. troops, under Col. Edward Godwin,{{Cite web |title=History of Cagayan de Oro |url=https://aboutcagayandeoro.com/history-of-cagayan-de-oro/ |url-status=live |access-date=April 10, 2021 |website=About Cagayan de Oro |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209074802/http://aboutcagayandeoro.com:80/history-of-cagayan-de-oro |archive-date=2017-02-09}} in Cagayan de Misamis, Mindanao;{{cite book |date=2016 |title=American Battles & Campaigns |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oGXODgAAQBAJ&dq=agusan+hill+1900&pg=PT284 |location=London |publisher=Amber Books |page= |isbn=978-1-78274-341-5 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |via=Google Books}}
• April 15–19 – Several Filipino nationalists attack an American garrison in Catubig, Samar; some 150 of them die while 12 of 31 volunteers in the burned barracks are later rescued.

• May 14 – Five hundred revolutionaries under Capt. Vicente Roa attack U.S. Capt. Walter Elliot and 80 men at the hill of barrio Agusan, Cagayan de Misamis; ending with Roa and 34 to 38 of his men killed, along with two Americans.

• June 4 – Revolutionary forces under Col. Apolinar Velez launch an assault on Americans in Makahambus Hill in Cagayan de Misamis, with American company under Capt. Thomas Millar retreats; a Filipino and nine Americans are killed in the Americans' first loss in the Philippine–American War.{{cite web |url=https://heritage.elizaga.net/history/page2.html |title=History of Cagayan de Oro (Second of two parts) |last=Montalvan |first=Antonio |date=January 16, 2002 |website=elizaga.net |publisher=Heritage Conservation Advocates |access-date=March 17, 2024}}
• June 21 – Military governor Gen. MacArthur issues a proclamation providing amnesty to those who fought against the United States since the previous year, giving a 90-day period for them to swear an allegiance to the colonial government.

{{cite book |date=1901 |title=Facts about the Filipinos (volume 1, numbers 1–10) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1MFQAQAAIAAJ |location=Boston, Massachusetts |publisher=Philippine Information Society |page= |isbn= |access-date=April 8, 2024}}

• July 1 – Gen. Artemio Ricarte and his companion are arrested by the civil guards in Manila following reports of his planned insurgency. Ricarte would be deported to Guam the following year.

• September 13 – Col. Maximo Abad and his 250 nationalists ambush Capt. Devereux Shields, who would later wounded, and 54 U.S. troops, in Marinduque. The latter surrenders with four casualties.
• September 17 – Troops under Gen. Juan Cailles successfully resist an assault by Col. Benjamin Cheatham and his 300 men in Mabitac, with the deaths of 21 American soldiers.

• December 12 – About a thousand Pulahan extremists attack the American contingent of Lt. Stephen Hayt and 38 constables during the latter's patrol through Cebu. A large number of attackers and all constables, except Hayt, are killed.

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

• January 1 – New Year's Day
• April 12 – Maundy Thursday
• April 13 – Good Friday
• December 25 – Christmas Day

• November 11 – Narciso Ramos, Secretary of Foreign Affairs (d. 1986)
• Juanita Ángeles, silent film actress (d. unknown)

• March 10 – Delfina Herbosa de Natividad, one of the three women who seamed together the Flag of the Philippines (b. 1879)

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