LESSON 2:

THE CAVITE
MUTINY OF 1872
PREPARED BY: JOSHUA KUIZON
MICO LOR BALOGO
JHING MATURAN
ROMAR SERDAN
READINGS IN PHILIPPINES HISTORY

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE

CAVITE MUNTINY?
INTRODUCTION
TO THE CAVITE
MUTINY OF
1872
1872 – A HISTORIC YEAR
OF TWO EVENTS
1. CAVITE MUTINY – A MAJOR FACTOR
IN THE AWAKENING OF NATIONALISM
AMONG THE FILIPINOS
MUTINY
A REBELLION AGAINST AUTHORITY
 COMESFROM AN OLD VERB, “MUTINE” WHICH
MEANS “REVOLT”
CAVITE MUTINY

 UPRISING OF MILITARY PERSONNEL OF FORT SAN FELIPE

(THE SPANISH ARSENAL IN CAVITE, PHILIPPINES ON
JANUARY 20, 1872
 AROUND 200 SOLDIERS AND LABORER ROSE UP IN THE
BELIEF THAT IT WOULD ELEVATE TO A NATIONAL
UPRISING. THE MUTINY WAS UNSUCCESSFUL, AND
GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS ARE EXECUTED MANY OF THE
PARTICIPANTS.
FILIPINO VERSION OF CAVITE MUTINY OF 1872
SPANISH VERSION OF CAVITE MUTINY IN 1872
 2. MARTYRDOM OF THE THREE PRIESTS
- MARIANO GOMEZ, JOSE BURGOZ AND JACINTO
ZAMORA
GOMBURZA

 COLLECTIVE NAME OF THE THREE MARTYRED PRIESTS

 TAGGED AS THE MASTERMINDS OF THE CAVITE MUTINY
 THEY WERE PROMINENT FILIPINO PRIESTS CHARGED
WITH TREASON AND SEDITION
 THE SPANISH CLERGY CONNECTED THE PRIESTS TO THE
MUTINY AS PART OF A CONSPIRACY TO STIFLE THE
MOVEMENT OF SECULAR PRIEST WHO DESIRED TO HAVE
THEIR OWN PARISHES INSTEAD OF BEING ASSISTANT TO
THE REGULAR FRIARS.
FATHER MARIANO GOMEZ
 AN OLD MAN IN HIS MID 70,
CHINESE FILIPINO, BORN IN
CAVITE.
 HE HELD THE MOST SENIOR
POSITION OF THE THREE AS
ARCHBISHOP’S VICAR IN
CAVITE.
 HE WAS TRULY
NATIONALISTIC AND
ACCEPTED THE DEATH
PENALTY CALMLY AS
THOUGH IT WERE HIS
PENANCE FRO BEING PRO-
FILIPINOS.
FATHER JOSE BURGOS
 SPANISH DESCENT, BORN IN THE
PHILIPPINES. HE WAS A PARISH
PRIEST OF THE MANILA
CATHEDRAL AND HAD BEEN
KNOWN TO BE CLOSE TO THE
LIBERAL GOVERNOR GENERAL DE
LA TORRE.
 HE WAS 35 YEARS OLD AT THAT
TIME AND HE WAS ACTIVE AND
OUTSPOKEN IN ADVOCATING THE
FILIPINIZATION OF THE CLERGY
FATHER JACINTO ZAMORA
 37 YEARS OLD, WAS ALSO
SPANISH, BORN IN THE
PHILIPPINES.
 HE WAS THE PARISH PRIEST
OF MARIKINA AND WAS
KNOWN TO BE UNFRIENDLY
TO AND WOULD NOT
CONTENANCE ANY
ARROGANCEOR
AUTHORITATIVE BEHAVIOR
FROM SPANIARDS COMING
FROM SPAIN.
SPANISH ACCOUNT OF THE CAVITE
MUTINY
1. MONTERO’S ACCOUNT OF THE
CAVITE MUTINY
2. OFFICIAL REPORT OF GOVERNOR
IZQUIERDO ON THE CAVITE MUTINY
OF 1872
JOSE MONTERO Y VIDAL
 BORN ON JANUARY 28, 1851
 SPANISH HISTORIAN
 HIS ACCOUNT CENTERED ON HOW THE
EVENT WAS AN ATTEMPT IN
OVERTHROWING THE SPANISH
GOVERNMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES.
 HIS ACCOUNT ON MUTINY WAS
CRITICIZED AS WOEFULLY BIASED.
 BORN IN ANDALUSIAN TOWN OF
GERGAL
 WENT TO MADRID TO STUDY LAW
 GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS RESIDING IN
MANILA IN 1872
 CIVIL GOVERNOR IN COLONIAL
PROVINCES OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE IN
1875
POLITICAL BACKGROUND  FIREWORKS FESTIVALS IN SAMPALOC
 THE CALL FOR SECULATION

 FEAST IN SEBASTIAN
 AN EXCERPT FROM
MONTERO’S ACCOUNT OF THE
CAVITE MUTINY
GOVERNOR RAFAEL IZQUIERDO
 IMPLICATEDTHE NATIVE CLERGY, WHO
WERE ACTIVE IN THE MOVEMENT TOWARD
SECULARIZATION OF PARISHES.
 INA BIASED REPORT, HE HIGHLIGHTED
THE ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW THE
SPANISH GOVERNMENT IN THE
PHILIPPINES TO INSTALL A NEW “HARI” IN
THE PERSONS OF FATHER BURGOS AND
ZAMORA
 JANUARY 20, 1872

 THE DISTRICT OF SAMPALOC CELEBRATED THE FEAST OF

THE VIRGIN LORETO, CAME WITH IT WERE SOME
FIREWORKS DISPLAY.
 THE CAVITEñOS MISTOOK THAT THIS AS THE SIGNAL TO
COMMENCE WITH THE ATTACK
SPANISH ACCOUNTS
 200 MENS WAS LED BY SERGEANT
LAMADRID ATTACKED SPANISH
OFFICERS AT SIGHT AND SEIZED
THE ARSENAL.
 IZQUIERDO, UPON LEARNING THE
ATTACK, ORDERED
REINFORCEMENT OF THE SPANISH
FORCES IN CAVITE TO QUELL THE
REVOLT.
 THE REVOLUTION WAS EASILY
CRUSHED, WHEN MANILEñOS WHO
WERE EXPECTED TO AID THE
CAVITEñOS DID NOT ARRIVE
IN RESULTS, LEADERS OF THE PLOT WERE KILLED

FATHER GOMEZ, BURGOS AND ZAMORA

WERE TRIED BY A COURT MARTIAL AND SENTENCED TO BE EXECUTED
 OTHERS WHO WERE IMPLICATED SUCH
AS

JOAQUIN PARDO DE TAVERA ANTONIO MA. ROGADOR JOSE BASA PIO BASA

AND OTHER FILIPINO LAWYERS WERE SUSPENDED FROM THE PRACTICE OF LAW,
ARRESTED AND SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT AT THE MARIANAS ISLANDS.
 FEBRUARY 17, 1872

 THE GOMBURZA WERE EXECUTED BY GARROTE IN

PUBLIC TO SERVE AS A TREAT TO FILIPINOS NEVER TO
ATTEMPT TO FIGHT THE SPANIARDS AGAIN
 THIS IS A SCENE PURPOTEDLY WITNESSED BY YOUNG
JOSE RIZAL
DIFFERING ACCOUNTS OF THE EVENTS
OF 1872

 1. PARDO DE TAVERA’S ACCOUNT OF THE

CAVITE MUTINY
 2. PLAUCHUT’S ACCOUNT OF THE CAVITE
MUTINY
WHO IS DR. TRINIDAD PARDO DE TAVERA?
 BORN ON APRIL 13, 1875
 LIVED IN CABLIDO ST. INTRAMUROS
 SON OF FELIX DE TAVERA AND JULIANNA
GORRICHO
 WROTE A FILIPINO VERSION OF THE BLOODY
INCIDENT IN CAVITE
 STUDIED IN ATENEO MUNICIPAL DE MANILA
 RECEIVED HIS LICENTIATE IN MEDICINE AT THE
FACULTE DE MEDICINE DE PARIS IN 1880.
 RECEIVED HIS DIPLOMA ON MALAY LANGUAGE
OF 1885.
POLITICAL BACKGROUND
 ORDER FROM GOVERNOR GENERAL RAFAEL DE
IZQUIERDO

 DEPORT IN MARIANAS ISLANDS

 WAS UNDER POLO Y SERVICIO OR

THE “FORCE LABOR”
ACCORDING TO PARDO DE TAVERA

 THE INCIDENT WAS MERELY AMUTINY BY FILIPINO

SOLDIERS AND LABORERS OF THE CAVITE ARSENAL TO
THE DISSATISFACTION ARISING FROM THE DRACONIAN
POLICIES OF IZQUIERDO(ABOLITION OF PRIVELEGES AND
PROHIBITION OF THE FOUNDING OF THE SCHOOL OF
ARTS AND TRADES)
THE CENTRAL SPANISH GOVERNMENT

 WAS PLANNING TO DEPRIVE THE FRIARS

OF ALL THE POWERS OF INTERVENTION IN
MATTERS OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND
DIRECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
EDMUND PLAUCHUT
A FRENCH WRITER
COMPLEMENTED
TAVERA’S ACCOUNT
AND ANALYZED THE
MOTIVATION OF THE
1872 CAVITE MUTINY
 DR. JOSE RIZAL
DEDICATED HIS SECOND
NOVEL, EL
FILIBUSTERISMO, TO
THEIR MEMORY: “I
DEDICATE MY WORK TO
YOU AS VICTIMS OF
THE EVIL WHICH
UNDERTAKE TO
COMBAT”
THE END!! THANK YOU FOR LISTENING