JANUARY 16
Fiesta of Santa Fe, Cebu.
1888
Birth in Carmen, Cebu, of Mariano Jesus Cuenco (1888-1964), lawyer-journalists who became Cebu congressman, governor, and Philippine Cabinet member and Senate Preisdent.
1895
Birth in Talisay, Cebu, of Priscillo A. Campo, a leading Cebuano poet better-known by his pseudonym, “Bukidnon.”
1900
General Arcadio Maxilom issues a decree ordering a shift to guerilla warfare and reorganizing the military organization of the Republic in Cebu to support the war against the Americans.
Category: Today in the History of Cebu