R3: Significant dates Flashcards
June 12, 1848
Alonso-Mercado marriage
The oldest university in Asia and currently the largest Catholic university in the world
Built by Spanish friars in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas
University of Santo Tomas (UST)
The most in-demand course offered to boys in the said seminary college
Priesthood
Where was the first UST campus erected?
Intramuros
The first and old name of UST
Colegio de Nuestra Senora del Santisimo Rosario
Who issued the order of changing Filipino surnames to Spanish in November 21, 1849?
Gov. Gen. Narciso Claveria
What happened on the midnight of Wednesday, June 19, 1861?
Jose Rizal was born
Where did “Jose” come from?
St. Joseph
Where did “Protasio” come from?
The Christian calendar
What did the surname “Rizal” mean?
Adopted, 1849
Green field
What word did “Mercado” come from?
Adopted, 1731
Market
By which family members was “Realonda” adopted from?
Teodora Alonso’s aunt and godmother
Batangueño priest and godfather that baptized Rizal two days after his birth (2)
Fr. Rufino Collantes
Fr. Pedro Casañas
Where did Rizal spend his formative years in 1869 onwards?
Biñan, Laguna
He was Rizal’s first formal teacher that opened his eyes to the reality of being an “indio” when attended school in Biñan.
Maestro Justiniano Aquino-Cruz
What significant events happened on February 17, 1872?
Cavite mutiny and GomBurZa execution
Where were the three priests buried?
Paco Park Cemetery, Manila
The only institution Rizal took an entrance exam for
Advised by Fr. Jose Bech, his favorite professor to the refusal of his f
Colegio de San Juan de Letran
On March 14, 1877, Rizal graduated secondary education from which school?
Ateneo Municipal de Manila
9 days after his graduation, Rizal received his BA diploma at what age?
15 years old
Rizal’s first unfinished course in UST prior to transferring to medicine from 1878 to 1882.
Philosophy and Letters
Paciano financed his studies abroad post-graduation to which school?
Central University of Madrid
What was Rizal conferred during his June 1884 graduation from medicine?
Licentiate degree
Rizal’s subsequent area of specialization to cure his blinding mother’s cataract
He studied this in Paris and then transferred to Heidelberg, Germany
Ophthalmology
Rizal’s European travel companion that followed him to Berlin in 1886.
Dr. Maximo Viola
Rizal mainly practiced in his hometown, Calamba in August 1887. He got his first patient a year later. Who was his patient?
His mother
Lucia’s husband and Rizal’s brother-in-law that died of cholera in 1889
Mariano Herbosa
Rizal’s place of exile shortly after his trip from Macau, Hong Kong
He spent four (4) years in this island
People still came to visit him for medical consultations which brought him more fame
Dapitan, Zamboanga del Norte
Also called the “Shrine city”
The Noli Me Tangere was conceived what range of years?
1885-1887
What happened on June 28, 1890?
Rizal’s family in Calamba experienced harrassment by the friars
They eventually lost the land case a month after.
What date did Teodora Alonso visit Rizal in Dapitan?
August 29, 1893
In the last days of February 1895, a 33-year old Rizal met an 18-year-old Irish woman during his exile in Dapitan. Who was this woman?
She was also the adopted daughter of George Taufer from Hong Kong
Josephine Bracken
When did Rizal propose to Josephine Bracken?
February 22, 1895
Bonifacio’s emissary that visited Rizal in Dapitan to recruit him in the KKK uprising
June 21, 1896 – 5 months before his death
Dr. Pio Valenzuela
A military genius Rizal had suggested to Dr. Pio Valenzuela to help them secure the necessary arsenal and tactics for all of the revolution’s operations.
Antonio Luna
Rizal clarified that although he did not want to partake in the revolution, he was not completely against it; rather, he needed two (2) precautionary measures to ensure that things would go as planned:
1) Get the support of the rich and influential people of Manila
2) Consult and appoint Antonio Luna to direct all military operations
Where was Rizal accepted and deployed as an undercover surgeon in July 31,1896 to take care of wounded Spanish troops, its native people, and yellow fever patients?
He never actually set foot on the island.
Cuba
Rizal tried to leave Manila by boarding a steamer to Barcelona, Spain on which date?
September 2, 1896
Why was Rizal arrested aboard the Barcelona-bound steamer on October 3?
Convicted and blamed for sedition and as an accomplice of the Katipunan’s insurrection
The place in Intramuros where Rizal was transferred to his personal prison cell for 56 days
Fort Santiago
The name of Rizal’s official trial lawyer whom he chose from a roster of army officers
He was chosen on December 8, 1896
Lt. Luis Taviel de Andrade
Spanish barracks that was became the “Kangaroo court” and venue of Rizal’s trial
Led by Lt. Col. Jose Togores Arjona
Cuartel de España
The list of named people in the trial
Jose Rizal
6 officers in uniform
Lt. Taviel de Andrade
Judge Advocate Rafael Dominguez
Lt. Enrique de Alcocer
Josephine Bracken
Other spectators
Who was the prosecuting attorney for Rizal’s case?
Lt. Enrique de Alcocer
What was Rizal’s penalty for pleading guilty (unanimously) by the Kangaroo court?
Death by firing squad
What happened on December 27, 1896?
The reading of Rizal’s death sentence
What was the date when Rizal allegedly signed his letter of retraction from masonry?
December 29, 1896
At exactly 7:03 am on December 30, 1896 in Bagumbayan, Rizal shouted two words which meant, “It is done/finished”.
He was executed in Bagumbayan, Luneta, now Rizal Park
Consummatum Est
What gravesite was Rizal secretly buried?
Paco Cemetery
Who designed Rizal’s “RPJ” marble plaque?
Doroteo Ongjunco
On August 1898, Narcisa discreetly exhumed and brought her brother’s remains to their family house and placed in an ivory urn. Where did they live?
Estraude St., Binondo, Manila
Who signed a “National day of mourning” on December 30, 1898?
This included Rizal’s 2nd death anniversary and all victims of the Spani
Emilio Aguinaldo
What was the name of the law created by the 1901 Taft Commission to honor RIzal by changing the district of Morong to “Rizal Province”?
Was recommended by Trinidad Pardo de Tavera
Act 137
When was Rizal’s Luneta monument approved to be established?
September 28, 1901
The name of the enacting law that made December 30 a public holiday
Act No. 345
Along with the masons, what was the group that transferred Rizal’s urn from Binondo to his final resting place in Luneta?
December 30, 1912
Knights of Rizal
The Swiss sculptor for his original “Motto stella”, an old name for Rizal’s monument
Richard Kissling
Appointed chairman of the National Board of Education by Pres. Quezon
Dr. Rafael Palma
A 1976 national artist for literature that translated Rizal’s Mi Ultimo Adios in English
“Land that I love, farewell!”
Nick Joaquin
The Filipino priest that named Rizal’s final poem as “Ultimo Adios” inspired by Fr. Mariano Ponce
Dr. Mariano Dacanay
RA 9492 or the celebration of national heroes day every last Monday of August was signed by whom?
July 24, 2007
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
GMA also signed which sport as the national martial art and as a mandatory sport for PE classes?
Arnis
Rizal’s urn transfer was recreated as a centennial commemoration of his 116th Martyrdom anniversary by which two groups?
Order of the Knights of Rizal
National Historical Commission of the Philippines
Old and new name
Mercado
Rizal
Bagumbayan
Rizal Park
El Viejo
Kawit, Cavite
Morong
Rizal Province
Polo Bulacan
Valenzuela city
Paang Bundok
Manila North Cemetery
Cementerio General del Dilao
Paco Cemetery/Paco Park
Calle Azcarraga
C.M. Recto Ave.
Colegio de Nuestra Senora del Santisimo-Rosario
Colegio de Santo Tomas
University of Santo Tomas
Escuela Municipal de Manila
Ateneo de Manila University
Tayabas
Quezon Province
Morayta
Nicanor Reyes St.
Gov. Forbes St.
A.H. Lacson
Highway 54
EDSA
What was the theme for the 2023 127th Rizal day?
Pundasyon ng kahapon, isinasabuhay ngayon
Foundation of the past, living today
