Dates Flashcards
JOSE RIZAL, the seventh child of Francisco Mercado Rizal and Teodora Alonso y
Quintos, was born in Calamba, Laguna.
19 June 1861
He was baptized JOSE RIZAL MERCADO at the Catholic of Calamba by the parish
priest Rev. Rufino Collantes with Rev. Pedro Casañas as the sponsor.
22 June 1861
The parochial church of Calamba and the canonical books, including the book in which Rizal’s baptismal records were entered, were burned.
28 September 1862
Barely three years old, Rizal learned the alphabet from his mother.
1864
When he was four years old, his sister Conception, the eight child in the Rizal family,
died at the age of three. It was on this occasion that Rizal remembered having shed real
tears for the first time.
1865
- During this time his mother taught him how to read and write. His father hired a
classmate by the name of Leon Monroy who, for five months until his (Monroy) death, taught Rizal the rudiments of Latin. - At about this time two of his mother’s cousin frequented Calamba. Uncle Manuel
Alberto, seeing Rizal frail in body, concerned himself with the physical development of
his young nephew and taught the latter love for the open air and developed in him a great
admiration for the beauty of nature, while Uncle Gregorio, a scholar, instilled into the
mind of the boy love for education. He advised Rizal: “Work hard and perform every task very carefully; learn to be swift as well as thorough; be independent in thinking and make visual pictures of everything.”
1865 – 1867
- With his father, Rizal made a pilgrimage to Antipolo to fulfill the vow made by his
mother to take the child to the Shrine of the Virgin of Antipolo should she and her child survive the ordeal of delivery which nearly caused his mother’s life. - From there they proceeded to Manila and visited his sister Saturnina who was at the time
studying in the La Concordia College in Sta. Ana
6 June 1868
At the age of eight, Rizal wrote his first poem entitled “Sa Aking Mga Kabata.” The
poem was written in tagalog and had for its theme “Love of One’s Language
1869
His brother Paciano brought Rizal to Biñan, Laguna. He was placed under the tutelage of
Justiniano Aquino Cruz, studying Latin and Spanish. In this town he also learned the art of painting under the tutorship of an old painter by the name of Juancho Carrera.
1870
Having finished his studies in Biñan, Rizal returned to Calamba on board the motorboat Talim. His parents planned to transfer him to Manila where he could continue his studies
17 December 1870
His mother was imprisoned in Sta. Cruz, Laguna for allegedly poisoning the wife of her
cousin Jose Alberto, a rich property owner of Biñan and brother of Manuel and Gregorio.
1871
For the first time, Rizal heard of the word filibustero which his father forbid the members
of his family to utter, including such names as Cavite and Burgos. (It must be
remembered that because of the Cavite Mutiny on January 20, 1872, Fathers Mariano
Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora were garroted at Bagumbayan Field on
February 17, 1872.)
1872
