Timeline June 1898

Events in June 1898 5

• 1898 – 1936 Federico García Lorca Poet and Martyr Renowned poet and playwright executed by nationalist forces at the start of the Civil War.
• 1898 Hundred Days' Reform ends in coup Empress Dowager Cixi halts the Guangxu Emperor's reform program China's Guangxu Emperor launched sweeping modernization reforms on 11 June 1898, covering education, the military and administration. Conservative officials backed Empress Dowager Cixi in a coup on 21 September 1898 that placed the emperor under house arrest and reversed most of the edicts. Several reform leaders were executed and others, including Kang Youwei, fled abroad.
• 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence Emilio Aguinaldo proclaims independence from Spain Revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo declared the Philippines independent from Spain on 12 June 1898 at Kawit, Cavite. The declaration came amid the Spanish-American War but was not recognized by Spain or the United States, which annexed the islands months later. The date is now celebrated as the Philippines' Independence Day.
• 1898 – 2009 Harry Patch (1898-2009) Died 25 July 2009, aged 111 Patch was the last surviving combat soldier of the First World War to have served in the trenches, having fought at the Battle of Passchendaele. He rarely spoke publicly about the war until his nineties, later becoming a prominent voice for peace. His death was marked by a memorial service at Wells Cathedral.
• 1898 – 1978 Willy Messerschmitt (1898-1978) Died 15 September 1978, aged 80 Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer whose company produced the Bf 109 and Me 262, mainstays of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. He died in Munich.