NOLI ME TANGERE PUBLISHED IN BERLIN

(1887)
The bleak winter of 1886 was memorable in
the life of Rizal for two reasons. It was painful for he
was hungry, sick, and despondent in a strange city. It
also brought him great joy, after enduring so much
sufferings because his first novel “Noli Me Tangere”
came off the press in March 1887.

PUBLICATION OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO IN
BELGIUM (1892)
On September 18, 1891, the second novel of Dr.
Jose Rizal, El Filibusterismo (Reign of Greed),
written in Spanish and a sequel to Noli Me
Tangere, was published in Ghent, Belgium. Rizal,
who began writing El Filibusterismo in October
1887 in Calamba, Laguna, revised some chapters
while he was in London and completed the book
on March 29, 1891.
Rizal wrote El Filibusterismo in dedication to the
three martyred priests Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, expressing
conviction that their treatment and deaths at the hands of the Spanish authorities was unjust.

EXILE IN DAPITAN (1892 – 1896)

Beginning of Exile in Dapitan The streamer Cebu
which brought Rizal to Dapitan carried a letter from
Father Pablo Pastells, Superior of the Jesuits parish
priest of Dapitan. In this letter, Father Superior
Pastells informed Father Obach that Rizal could live
at the parish convent on the following conditions: 1.
"ThatRizal publicly retract his errors
concerningreligion, and make statements that were
clearly pro-Spanish and against revolution". 2. "That
he perform the church rites and make a general confession of his past life" 3. That henceforth he
conduct himself in an exemplary manner as a Spanish subject and a man of religion." Rizal did
not agree with these conditions. Consequently, he lived in the house of the commandant, Captain
Carnicero. 

PEPE’S DEATH (DECEMBER 30, 1896)

On December 30, 1896, Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal, the greatest man of the Malayan race, was
shot to death at Bagumbayan (present day Luneta or Rizal park), Manila, by a firing squad of
native soldiers, on the accusation of political conspiracy and sedition, and rebellion against
the Spanish government in the Philippines.

PHILOSOPHYOF LETTERS AND MEDICINE IN UST

(1872-1877)
Jose Rizal, having completed his Bachiller en Artes at the Ateneo
Municipal, was now eligible for higher education at a university.
His mother, Doña Teodora, had second thoughts about sending her
son to school because of the previous incident involving the
execution of friars Gomez, Burgos and Zamora. However, it was
Don Francisco who decided his son should to the University of
Santo Tomas, a prestigious institution run by the Dominican order.
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PUBLICATION OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO IN BELGIUM (1892)
The second and last novel completed by José
Rizal (though he left behind the unfinished
manuscript of a third one), El Filibusterismo is a
sequel to Noli Me Tangere. A dark, brooding, at
times satirical novel of revenge, unfulfilled love, and
tragedy, the Fili (as it is popularly referred to) still
has as its protagonist Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra.
Thirteen years older, his idealism and youthful
dreams shattered, and taking advantage of the belief
that he died at the end of Noli Me Tangere, he is
disguised as Simoun, an enormously wealthy and
mysterious jeweler who has gained the confidence
of the colony’s governor-general.

NOLI ME TANGERE PUBLISHED IN BERLIN (1887)

Noli Me Tangere is a novel by Filipino polymath José
Rizal and first published in 1887 in Berlin, Germany. Early
English translations used titles like An Eagle Flight and The
Social Cancer, but more recent translations have been published
using the original Latin title.

Though originally written in Spanish, it is more commonly

published and read in the Philippines in either English or
Filipino. Together with its sequel (El Filibusterismo), the reading
of Noli is obligatory for high school students all throughout the
archipelago.

STUDIED LAND SURVEYING IN ATNEO (1877-1882)

Being the child of a family of wealthy
landowners, Jose Rizal decided to study for a degree
in Land Surveying and Assessment at the Ateneo de
Municipal de Manila where he graduated on March
14, 1877, with honors or sobresaliente. He took and
passed the licensure exam for land surveying and
assessment in 1878 but was not given a license until
1881 when he turned 21.
FOUNDED LA LIGA FILIPINA IN THE PHILIPPINES (1892)
La Liga Filipina (lit. 'The Philippine League') was
a secret organization. It was founded by José Rizal in
the house of Doroteo Ongjunco at Ilaya
Street, Tondo, Manila on July 3, 1892.
The organization derived from La Solidaridad and
the Propaganda movement The purpose of La Liga
Filipina was to build a new group that sought to
involve the people directly in the reform movement.
The league was to be a sort of mutual aid and self-
help society dispensing scholarship funds and legal
aid, loaning capital and setting up cooperatives, the
league became a threat to Spanish authorities that
they arrested Rizal on July 6, 1892 on Dapitan.

RIZAL’S DEATH (DECEMBER 30, 1896)

His advocacy for reforms in the
Philippines under the hands of Spanish colonial
authorities led to his early death at the age of
36. He was executed in Bagumbayan, now called
Luneta, in Manila on December 30, 1896. But his
death meant much more for the Filipinos.