Thursday, April 18, 1901. Winding down in the Philippines, start of the Dead Ball Era.

Secretary of War Elihu Root ordered the withdrawal of 40,000 troops and from the Philippines in light of the decline in fighting there.  On the same day, President McKinley ordered that no further recruitments for overseas service be made.

Portugal secularized religious institutions in that country, but allowed them to remain occupied by their former owners if they were engaged in Christian work and activities.

The National Council of French Women was formed, uniting various French women's organizations.

The German occupied Beijing place of Empress Dowager Cixi caught on fire and burned down.  A senior German officer died when he went back in the building to attempt to rescue his dog.

The 1901 Major League Baseball series opened.  This commenced the "Dead Ball Era".

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Monday, April 15, 1901. Colonel Maximo Abad surrendered to the US forces in the Philippines.

Labels: 1900, 1901, Filipino Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines

Monday, April 15, 1901. Colonel Maximo Abad surrendered to the US forces in the Philippines.

Colonel Maximo Abad surrendered to the US forces in the Philippines. 

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Friday, April 12, 1901. Cutting indemnification by China in half.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Boxer Rebellion, China, Diplomacy, Eight Nation Alliance, Qing Dynasty

Friday, April 12, 1901. Cutting indemnification by China in half.

The United States proposed that Chinese indemnification for the Boxer Rebellion be cut in half.

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Tuesday, April 9, 1901. Navy base in Mexico.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Art, Baja California, Bison, Coal, Currency, Mexican War, Mexico, Mexico (Pichilinque), pornography, Sex, U.S. Navy, Women

Tuesday, April 9, 1901. Navy base in Mexico.

The U.S. Navy established its first foreign base, a coaling station at Pichilinque, Mexico, on Baja California.

The location has previously been used by the Navy during the Mexican War.  Baja was otherwise unoccupied by the US during the war, interestingly enough, giving a view of the 19th Century mindset.

The US changed the design for paper currency, introducing a ten dollar bill with a spectacular engraving of a Bison and also featuring Lewis and Clark flanked by two young women with see through blouses.

Erotic and semi erotic engravings of women were common on currency and seals at the time.  It's hard to know now why this was the case, but it was.  Indeed, it created an early controversy in Wyoming over the state seal as an early governor backed a seal with an excessively erotic topless woman over the opposition of the legislature.

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Thursday, April 4, 1901. Zulus in action.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Boer War, South Africa, Zulu people

Thursday, April 4, 1901. Zulus in action.

Mankulumana, chief adviser to Dinuzulu, king of the Zulu nation, led newly armed Zulu troops to assist the British Army against the Boers in the Vryheid district of the South African Republic.

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Tuesday, April 2, 1901. News Carver meets his end.

Labels: 1900, 1901, Bitter Enders, Boer Armies, Boer War, law, Personalities, South Africa, Texas, Texas (Sonora), The Wild Bunch

Tuesday, April 2, 1901. News Carver meets his end.

The United Kingdom extended the military court system over Boer guerillas.

The British were turning increasingly desperate, and harsh, in their effort to put down the ongoing resistance of Boer Bitter Enders.

William Carver of the Wild Bunch was killed in Jack Owens' Bakery in Sonora, Texas, by Sheriff E. S. "Lige" Briant and his deputies while attempting to effect an arrest for suspicion of murder.

Carver was one of the individuals in the famous Fort Worth portrait from 1900 and went by the nickname "News".

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Monday, April 1, 1901. Aguinaldo consents.

Labels: 1900, 1901, British Empire, Cuba, Emilio Aguinaldo, Holy Monday, Labor unrest, Lent, Leonard Wood, Nigeria, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines, Prisoners of War, Scotland, Slavery

Monday, April 1, 1901. Aguinaldo consents.

Emilio Aguinaldo, Prisoner of War and formerly the president of the Philippine Republic, signed an oath of allegiance to the United States.

General Leonard Wood, the American military governor of Cuba, refused to certify the selection of Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso as the Mayor of Havana in spite of his having been chosen by the city council in a 12–10 vote.

Scottish laborers walked off the job seeking an eight hour day.

British Governor of Northern Nigeria Sir Frederick Lugard outlawed the future purchase or sale of slaves, the return of a runaway slave to his master.

Currently enslaved people and concubines were not freed and could continue to be sold.

It was Holy Monday on the new calendar.

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Saturday, March 30, 1901. Boer captures.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Art, Boer War, Easter