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On board the Spanish steamer Salvadora,
May 3, 1882
On his way to Spain, he had a two-day
stopover in Singapore,
May 8, 1882
He was on board the steamer
Djemnah,
May 11, 1882
He arrived at Point Galle, a
seacoast town in Southern Ceylon.
May 17, 1882
He had a stopover at Colombo, the
capital of Ceylon
May 18, 1882
From Colombo, Ceylon, the Djemnah
continued his voyage and crossed the Indian Ocean
until he reached the Cape of Guardafin, Africa.
May 28, 1882
From Aden, he proceeded to the
Suez Canal.
June 2, 1882
From Port Said, the steamer
proceeded to Europe and reached Naples City, Italy.
June 11, 1882
The steamer docked at the French
harbor of Marseilles.
June 12, 1882
From Port Bou, Rizal continued his
trip for the last lap by train for Spain and finally
reached his destination —Barcelona, Spain.
June 16, 1882
On the advice of Paciano to
Rizal to finish the medical course in Madrid.
November 3, 1882
he enrolled
in the Universidad Central de Madrid in Medicine
and Philosophy and Letters
On November 3, 1882,
Rizal has conferred the Licentiate in
Medicine with a rating of “Fair” by the Universidad Central
de Madrid after completing the 5th year (1882-83) and
6th year term (1883-84).
June 21, 1884
With an empty stomach, he
attended his classes at the University,
participated in the contest in the Greek
language, and won the gold medal.
June 24, 1884
Student
demonstrations started to explode at the
Universidad Central de Madrid due to the
expulsion of Dr. Miguel Morayta,
November 20, 1884
On his 24th birthday anniversary, Rizal was
awarded the degree of Licentiate in Philosophy and
Letters by the Universidad Central de Madrid, with a
rating of “Excellent
June 19, 1885
Rizal was invited to speak at a banquet to
celebrate the double victory of two (2) Filipino artists,
June 25, 1885
Rizal had a stopover in Barcelona
on his way to Paris
October 1885
Rizal went to Paris and lived
there for four months where he worked as assistant
to Dr. Louis de Wecket, a leading French
ophthalmologist.
November 1885
After four (4) months of stay in
Paris, he left Paris for Heidelberg, Germany.
February 3, 1886
Rizal wrote his first letter in German to
Prof. Ferdinand Blumentritt, an Austrian ethnologist
interested in Philippine languages, who was at that time the
Director of Ateneo of Leimeritz, Austria.
July 3, 1886
Rizal left Heidelberg and boarded a train,
visited other cities in Germany, and arrived at Leipzig
August 9, 1886
He arrived at Leipzig. Rizal
translated Friedrich Schiller’s drama William Tell
and Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales into
Tagalog.
August 14, 1886
He arrived in Dresden,
Germany, and met Dr. Adolf B. Meyer, Director of
the Anthropological and Ethnological Museum.
October 19, 1886
Rizal left Dresden by train and
reached Berlin in the evening. Rizal met for the first
time Dr. Feodor Jagor, a famous German
scientist-traveler and author of “Travels in the
Philippines .”
November 1, 1886
Rizal left Rome by train for Marseilles, a
French port and boarded the Djemnah.
July 3, 1887
In Saigon, he transferred to another
steamer Haiphong which was bound for Manila.
July 30, 1887
Steamer Haiphong arrived in
Manila. He found Manila the same as when he left it five
years ago.
August 5, 1887
Rizal returned home to Calamba
August 8, 1887
