Jose Rizal’s Timeline

Source http//joserizal. info/Biography/timeline. htm CHRONOLOGY 1848, June 28 Rizals parents married in Kalamba, La lagoon Francisco Rizal-Mercado y Alejandra (born in Binan, April 18, 1818) and Teodora Morales Alonso-Realonda y Quintos (born in Sta. Cruz, Manila, Nov. 14, 1827). 1861, June 19 Rizal born, their seventh child. 1861, June 22 Christened as Jose Protasio Rizal-Mercado y Alonso-Realonda 1870, mature 9 In school at Binan under Master Justiniano Aquin Cruz. 1871, eld 10 In Kalamba general school under Master Lucas Padua. 872, June 10, get on with 11 Examined in San Juan de Letran college, Manila, which, during the Spanish time, as part of Sto. Tomas University, controlled pick up to all higher institutions. 1872, June 26 Entered the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, then a public school, as a twenty-four hours scholar. 1875, June 16, get on 14 Became a boarder in the Ateneo. 1876, March 23, age 15 Received the bachelor-at-arms of Arts (B. A. ) degree, with highes t honors, from Ateneo de Manila. 1877, June. Entered Sto. Tomas University in the Philosophy course. 877, Nov. 29 Awarded diploma of honorable mention and merit by the gallant Economic Society of Friends of the Country, Amigos del Pais, for the prize numbers. 1878, June, age 16. Matriculated in the medical course. Won Liceo Artistico-Literario prize, in poetical emulation for Indians and Mestizos, with the poem To the Philippine Youth. Wounded in the back for not saluting a Guardia Civil police lieutenant whom he had not seen. The authorities ignored his complaint. 1880, April 23, age 19. Received Licco Artistico-Literario diploma of honorable mention for the allegory, The Council of the Gods, in competition open to Spaniards, mestizos and Indians. Unjustly deprived of the first prize. 1880, Dec. 8. Operetta On the Banks of the Pasig produced. 1881, age 20. Submitted winning surface model design for commemorative medal for the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Coun try centennial. 1882, May 3, age 21. Secretly left Manila taking a French dismount steamer at capital of Singapore for Marseilles and entering Spain at Port Bou by railroad. His brother, Paciano Mercado, furnished the money. 1882, June. Absence noted at Sto. Tomas University, which owned the Kalamba estate. Rizals father was compelled to prove that he had no knowledge of his sons plan in arrangement to hold the land on which he was the Universitys tenant. 1882, June 15. Arrived in Barcelona. 1882, October 3. Began studies in Madrid. 1886, Received degree of Licentiate in Medicine with honors from Central University of Madrid on June 19 at the age of 24. Clinical assistant to Dr. L. de Wecker, a Paris oculist. Visited Universities of Heidelberg, Leipzig, and Berlin. 1887, Feb. 21, age 26. Finished the novel Noli Me Tangere in Berlin.Traveled in Austria, Switzerland and Italy. 1887, July 3. Sailed from Marseilles. 1887, Aug. 5. Arrived in Manila. Traveled in nearby provinces with a Spanish lieutenant, detailed by the Governor-General, as escort. 1888, Feb. Sailed for Japan via Hong Kong. 1888, Feb. 28 to April 13, age 27. A node at the Spanish Legation, Tokyo, and traveling in Japan. 1888, April-May. Traveling in the United States. 1888, May 24. In London, analyse in the British Museum to edit Morgas 1609 Philippine History. 1889, March, age 28. In Paris, publishing Morgas History.Published The Philippines A Century Hence in La Solidaridad, a Filipino fortnightly review, first of Barcelona and later of Madrid. 1890, February to July, age 29. In Belgium finished El Filibusterismo which is the sequel to Noli Me Tangere. Published The Indolence of the Filipino in La Solidaridad. 1890, grand 4. Returned to Madrid to confer with his countrymen on the Philippine situation, then constantly growing worse. 1891, January 27. Left Madrid for France. 1891, November, age 30. Arranging for a Filipino agricultural colony in British North Borneo. Pr snatchi ced practice of medicine in Hong Kong. 892, June 26, age 31. Returned to Manila under Governor-General Despujols safe conduct pass. Organized a rough-cut aid economic society La Liga Filipina on July 3. 1892, July 6. Ordered deported to Dapitan, but the decree and charges were kept inexplicable from him. Taught school and conducted a hospital during his exile, patients coming from China coast ports for treatment. Fees thus earned were used to improve the town. Arranged a water system and had the plaza lighted. 1896, marvelous 1, age 35. Left Dapitan en pass to Spain as a volunteer surgeon for the Cuban yellow fever hospitals.Carried letters of recommendation from Governor-General Blanco. 1896, August 7 to September 3. On Spanish cruiser Castilla in Manila Bay. Sailed for Spain on Spanish mail steamer and just after leaving Port Said was confined to his cabin as a prisoner on cabled order from Manila. (Rizals enemies to secure the appointment of a governor-general subservie nt to them, the servile Polavieja had purchased Governor-General Blancos promotion. ) 1896, October 6. Placed in Montjuich Castle dungeon on his arrival in Barcelona and the same day re-embarked for Manila.Friends and countrymen in London by cable made an unsuccessful effort for a Habeas Corpus writ at Singapore. On arrival in Manila was placed in Fort Santiago dungeon. 1890, December 3. charged with treason, sedition and forming illegal societies, the prosecution arguing that he was responsible for the deeds of those who read his writings. During his imprisonment Rizal began to throw in his mind his greatest poem who others later entitle, My Last Farewell. (later concealed in an alcohol cookery lamp) December 12 Rizal appears in a courtroom where the judges made no effort to fall over those who cry out for his remnant. 896, December 15. Wrote an address to insurgent Filipinos to lay down their arms because their insurrection was at that time hopeless. Address not made pub lic but added to the charges against him. 1896, December 27. Formally condemned to death by a Spanish court martial. Pi y Margall, who had been president of the Spanish Republic, pleaded with the Prime Minister for Rizals life, but the Queen Regent could not forgive his having referred in one of his writings to the murder by, and suicide of, her relative, Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria. 896, December 29 Completes and puts into writing My Last Farewell. He conceals the poem in an alcohol thaw apparatus and gives it to his family. He may have also concealed another copy of the same poem in one of his shoes but, if so, it is lost in decomposition in his burial. 1896, December 30, age 35 years, 6 months, 11 days. Roman Catholic sources allege that Rizal marries Josephine Bracken in his Fort Santiago death cell to Josephine Bracken she is Irish, the adopted daughter of a blind American who came to Dapitan from Hong Kong for treatment.Shot on the Luneta, Manila, at 703 a. m. , and b uried in a secret grave in Paco Cemetery. (Entry of his death was made in the Paco church service Register among suicides. ) 1897, January. Commemorated by Spanish Free-masons who dedicated a tablet to his memory, in their Grand Lodge third house in Madrid, as a martyr to Liberty. 1898, August. Filipinos who placed over it in Paco cemetery, a cross grave simply December 30, 1896, sought his grave, immediately after the American capture of Manila. Since his death his countrymen had never mouth his name, but all references had been to The Dead. 898, December 20. President Aguinaldo, of the Philippine Revolutionary Government, proclaimed December thirtieth as a day of national mourning. 1898, December 30. Filipinos held Memorial services at which time American soldiers on duty carried their arms reversed. 1911, June 19. Birth semi-centennial observed in all public schools by an act of the Philippine Legislature. 1912, December 30. Rizals ashes transferred to the Rizal Mausole um on the Luneta with impressive public ceremonies.