DARAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

SALVACION, DARAGA ALBAY

RIZAL’S TIMELINE

SUBMITTED BY:

JOSHUA A. NUÑEZ
 Jun 28, 1848 Took exam in San Juan de Letran
College
Marriage of his parents
Age 12
Teodora Morales Alonso-Realonda y
Quintos, and dad, Francisco Rizal-  Jun 26, 1872
Mercado y Alejandra, married.
Started strudying at Ateneo
 Period: Jun 28, 1848 to Dec 30, 1912 Municipal de Manila

The Life and Influence of Rizal  Jun 16, 1875

 Jun 19, 1861 Became a boarder at Ateneo

Birth of Rizal  Mar 23, 1876

Rizal was born, as their seventh child. RecievedBachelor of Arts (B.A.)

degree with highest honors, from
 Jun 22, 1861 Ateneo de Manila.

Christened  Jul 20, 1877

Christened as José Protacio Rizal- Entered Sto. Tomás University in the

Mercado y Alonso-Realonda Philosophy course.

 Jun 22, 1870  Nov 19, 1877

Studied under Justiniano Aquin Cruz. Awarded diploma of honorable

mention and merit by the Royal
 Aug 24, 1871
Economic Society of Friends of the

Studied at Kalamba public school Country, Amigos del País for his

under Master Lucas Padua. prized poem.

At age 10  Jun 23, 1878

 Jun 10, 1872 Matriculated in the medical course.

Won Liceo Artistico-Literario prize,
 in poetical competition for “Indians
and Mestizos”, with the poem “To the
Philippine Youth”.
 Apr 23, 1880
Received Licco Artístico-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.
 Dec 8, 1880
Operetta “On the Banks of the Pasig”
produced.
 Sep 25, 1881
Submitted winning wax model design
for commemorative medal for the
Royal Economic Society of Friends of
the Country centennial.
 May 3, 1882
Secretly left Manila taking a French
mail steamer at Singapore for
Marseilles and entering Spain at Port
Bou by railroad. His brother, Paciano
Mercado, furnished the money.
 Jun 15, 1882
Arrived in Barcelona
 Jun 20, 1882
Absence noted at Sto. Tomás
University, which owned the Kalamba
estate. Rizal’s father was compelled to
prove that he had no knowledge of his
son’s plan in order to hold the land on
which he was the University’s tenant.
 Oct 3, 1882
Began studies in Madrid.
 Aug 21, 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
 Feb 21, 1887
Finished the novel Noli Me Tangere in
Berlin.
Traveled in Austria, Switzerland and
Italy.
 Jul 3, 1887
Sailed from Marseilles.
 Aug 5, 1887
Arrived in Manila. Traveled in nearby
provinces with a Spanish lieutenant,
detailed by the Governor-General, as
escort.
 Feb 9, 1888
Sailed for Japan via Hong Kong.
 Feb 28, 1888
A guest at the Spanish Legation,
Tokyo, and traveling in Japan.
 Period: Feb 28, 1888 to Apr 13, 1888
A guest at the Spanish Legation,
Tokyo, and traveling in Japan.
 Apr 25, 1888
Travelled to United States
 May 24, 1888
In London, studying in the British
Museum to edit Morga’s 1609
Philippine History.
 Mar 28, 1889
— In Paris, publishing Morga’s
History. Published “The Philippines A
Century Hence” in La Solidaridad, a
Filipino fortnightly review, first of
Barcelona and later of Madrid.
 Apr 22, 1890
In Belgium finished El Filibusterismo
which is the sequel to Noli Me
Tangere.
 Aug 4, 1890
Returned to Madrid to confer with his
countrymen on the Philippine
situation, then constantly growing
worse.
 Jan 27, 1891
Left Madrid for France.
 Nov 19, 1891
Arranging for a Filipino agricultural
colony in British North Borneo.
Practiced medicine in Hong Kong.
 Jun 3, 1892
Organized a mutual aid economic
society: a Liga Filipina.
 Jun 26, 1892
Returned to Manila under Governor-
General Despujol’s safe conduct pass.
 Jul 6, 1892
 Ordered deported to Dapitan, but the
decree and charges were kept secret
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 beautify the
town. Arranged a water system and had
the plaza lighted.
 Aug 1, 1896
Left Dapitan en route to Spain as a
volunteer surgeon for the Cuban
yellow fever hospitals. Carried letters
of recommendation from Governor-
General Blanco.
 Aug 7, 1896
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. (Rizal’s
enemies to secure the appointment of a
governor-general subservient to them,
the servile Polavieja had purchased
Governor-General Blanco’s promotion.)
 Oct 6, 1896
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.
 Dec 3, 1896
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
formulate in his mind his greatest poem
who others later entitle, “My Last
Farewell.” (Later concealed in an
alcohol cooking lamp)
 Dec 12, 1896
Rizal appears in a courtroom where
the judges made no effort to check
those who cry out for his death.
 Dec 27, 1896
Formally condemned to death by a
Spanish court martial.
 Dec 29, 1896  Aug 22, 1898

Completes and puts into writing “My
Last Farewell.” He conceals the poem
in an alcohol heating apparatus and
gives it to his family. He may have
also concealed another copy of the
Filipinos who placed over it in Paco
cemetery, a cross inscribed simply
“December 30, 1896”
 Dec 20, 1898

same poem in one of his shoes but, if

President Aguinaldo, of the Philippine
so, it is lost in decomposition in
Revolutionary Government,

 Dec 30, 1896 proclaimed December 30th as a day of

national mourning.
Roman Catholic sources allege that
 Dec 30, 1898
Rizal marries Josephine Bracken in
his Fort Santiago death cell to
Filipinos held Memorial services at
Josephine Bracken; she is Irish, the
which time American soldiers on duty
adopted daughter of a blind American
carried their arms reversed.
who came to Dapitan from Hong
Kong for treatment.  Jun 19, 1911

 Dec 30, 1896 — Birth semi-centennial observed in

Shot on the Luneta, Manila, at 7:03
a.m., and buried in a secret grave in
Paco Cemetery. (Entry of his death
was made in the Paco Church
Register among suicides.)
 Jan 21, 1897
all public schools by an act of the
Philippine Legislature
 Dec 30, 1912
Rizal’s ashes transferred to the Rizal
Mausoleum on the Luneta with
impressive public ceremonies

Commemorated by Spanish Free-

masons who dedicated a tablet to his
memory, in their Grand Lodge hall in
Madrid, as a martyr to Liberty.