1906
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Bud Dajo Massacre
On March 7, 1906, US troops under the command of Major General Leonard Wood massacred as many as 1,000 Filipino Muslims, known as Moros, who were taking refuge at Bud Dajo, a volcanic crater on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines.[1]
Events
- January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.
- January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
- February 10 – Template:Ship is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany.
- March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated in Indian Territory, a prerequisite for creating the state of Oklahoma in 1907.
- April 23 – In the Russian Empire, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.
- June 30 – The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 is signed into law by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (effective January 1, 1907).
- July 6 – The Second Geneva Convention meets.
- July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus affair.
- August 4 – The first Imperial German Navy submarine, U-1, is launched.
- August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion, Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma 'requests' United States intervention. This leads to the Second Occupation of Cuba, which lasts until 1909.
- September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha, to characterize the nonviolence movement in South Africa.
- October 6 – The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
- October 16 – Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer, and takes over the city hall in Köpenick for a short time.
- October 23 – An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France, and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe.
- October 28 – The Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust, is created in the Congo.
- November 22 – Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms, aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
- December 30 – The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan.