CAN YOU GUESS WHICH IS NOT TRUE?

• THE DAY JOSE RIZAL WAS EXECUTED WAS ON DECEMBER 30, 1896
• HE CRIED OUT “CONSUMATOM EST” MOMENTS BEFORE HE WAS SHOT.
• HE WAS EXECUTED BY A SPANISH FIRING SQUAD
 CAN YOU GUESS WHICH IS NOT TRUE?

• JOSE RIZAL WROTE “SA AKING MGA KABATA” IN HIS CHILDHOOD.

• LAPU-LAPU KILLED FERDINAND MAGELLAN.
• THE VIRAL LOVE LETTER “LIHAM PARA KAY ORYANG” WAS WRITTEN BY ANDRES BONIFACIO.
ONE P A S T, Y E T V A R IO U S
HIS T O RI E S
S IN PO INTS OF VIEW IN
ROVE RSIES A ND DIF F E RENCE
THE CONT
PHILIPPINE HISTORY
OBJECTIVES

•DEFINITION OF HISTORICAL INCONSISTENCY AND

CONTROVERSY
•CASE EXAMPLES OF HISTORICAL DEBATES IN HISTORY
INCONSISTENCY - A STATE WHERE TWO FACTS DON’T MATCH.
INFORMATION ALSO MAY BE INCOHERENT IN INVESTIGATIONS.
•THE DEFINITION OF AN INCONSISTENCY IS THE STATE OF NOT
BEING THE SAME THROUGHOUT. AN EXAMPLE OF AN
INCONSISTENCY IS WHEN TWO OF THE SAME JUICE TASTE VERY
DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER.
•CONTROVERSY - A DISCUSSION MARKED BY EXPRESSION OF
OPPOSING VIEWS. IT IS ALSO A RESULT OF INCONSISTENT
INFORMATION.
•HISTORY IS NOT PERFECT!
IT CAN BE RIDDLED WITH TRIVIAL INFORMATION BECAUSE OF SEVERAL
REASONS:

• HUMAN MEMORY
• MANIPULATION OF ARTIFACTS
• PERSONAL BIAS
CASE EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS IN
HISTORICAL EVENTS
VIEWPOINTS ON FERDINAND MAGELLAN’S ARRIVAL
• MAGELLAN ARRIVED AND SET FOOT ON MARCH 16, 1521, BUT THE EARLY FILIPINOS
SAID THAT THERE WERE “OTHERS LIKE HIM” WHO’VE BEEN IN THE COUNTRY
BEFORE. HE TOOK AN UNKNOWN ROUTE, NOW KNOWN AS THE PACIFIC, BECAUSE
THE INDIAN ROUTE WAS UNDER PORTUGAL.
• FERDINAND MAGELLAN WAS A EUROPEAN NAVIGATOR WHO WAS HAILED AS THE
“FIRST MAN TO REACH THE PHILIPPINES.” HE DIDN’T COMPLETE HIS
CIRCUMNAVIGATION DUE TO HIS DEATH AT MACTAN.
VIEWPOINTS ON THE 1899 BATTLE OF MANILA

• THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT THE SAN JUAN BRIDGE IN 1899, WHERE PVT. WILLIAM
GRAYSON, AN ENGLISHMAN, SHOT AND KILLED ANASTACIO FELIX, A FILIPINO
LIEUTENANT.
• THE INCIDENT, WHICH LED TO THE FILIPINO-AMERICAN WAR, ACTUALLY BROKE OUT
FROM THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIEGO AND SILENCIO STREETS. THE INITIAL BOUT
EVENTUALLY REACHED SAN JUAN BRIDGE.
VIEWPOINTS ON THE INTRODUCTION OF PHILIPPINE
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

• SPAIN INSTALLED VARIOUS SCHOOLS TO EDUCATE THE NATIVES AT THE TIME DUE
TO THE EDUCATIONAL DECREE ACT OF 1863, CREATING SEPARATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. MANUEL LUIS QUEZON ATTESTED THIS.
• THE PHILIPPINE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WAS INTRODUCED BY THE AMERICAN
MILITARY, WITH ITS TEACHERS IMPORTED FROM THE US RIDING ABOARD USS
THOMAS.
NOTES:

• HISTORY HAS DIFFICULTIES IN CHANGING THE ALREADY ESTABLISHED KNOWLEDGE

BECAUSE THERE IS INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN TRIED AND VERIFIED, BUT IT IS NOT
IMPOSSIBLE.

• BY USING THE HISTORICAL METHOD, HISTORIANS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND THESE
INCONSISTENCIES.
THANK YOU!