JOSE RIZAL’S TIMELINE from January – December 1896

 January 15, 1896 (Dapitan)

Rizal wrote to her sister Trinidad:

“I received your letter and the remittances as well as the invoice and for this I thank you….I am going to

build a large house where we can all live together.”

 February 12, 1896 (Dapitan)

Rizal wrote to her sister Lucia:

“Tell Mother to buy me a durable lamp because ours easily disintegrates…Tell Father that I'm having a

large house built because he says he is coming with Sr. Paciano. I should like Sr. Paciano to send me a

helper.”1

 March 12, 1896 (Dapitan)

Rizal wrote to her mother Teodora Alonso:

“Miss B. thanks you very much for your gifts and does not know how to reciprocate. She cannot go there

just now because there is nobody here to look after the nephews. She bathes them, and washes and

mends their clothes, so that, poor girl, she is never at rest, but she does it willingly for she has a great

love for the boys, and they love her mor than they love me! … I am afraid she has had a

miscarriage; she was very seriously ill the day before yesterday.”2

 July 1, 1896

Rizal receives a telegram from Governor Ramon Blanco requiring his services as a physician for the

Spanish army in Cuba.

1
http://joserizal.info/Writings/Letters/Family/1896-f-letters.htm#213
2
http://blog.cathcath.com/jose-rizals-heir-was-it-a-a-son-or-a-daughter-3188.html
  August 1, 1896

Rizal left Dapitan en route to Spain as a volunteer surgeon for the Cuban yellow fever hospitals. Carried

letters of recommendation from Governor-General Blanco.

 August 6, 1896

Rizal returns to Manila.

 August 19, 1896

Spanish authorities discover the Katipunan when one of its members, Teodoro Paterno, betrays the

organization to an Agustinian priest, Fr. Mariano Gil. All those implicated are ordered arrested but many

Katipuneros evade arrest and flee to the hills of Balintawak.

 August 23, 1896

A revolution is proclaimed by Bonifacio. The event is marked in history as the Cry of Balintawak. In this

instance, Filipinos tear up their cedulas (I.D. cards) issued by the Spanish government and thereby mark

the beginning of the uprising against the Spaniards.

 August 26, 1896

Rizal goes to Cavite where he boards a ship for Barcelona. In the following night, Andres Bonifacio,

Emilio Jacinto and other Katipuneros are able to surreptitiously board Rizal's ship. They offer to rescue

him from the Spaniards, but Rizal refuses.

 August 30, 1896

After the spread of the Katipunan revolt throughout The Country the first real battle for Philippine

independence takes place at San Juan del Monte. The Spanish Governor Ramon Blanco proclaims

a state of war in the 8 provinces that took up arms. The provinces are Manila, Laguna, Cavite, Batangas,

Pampanga, Bulacan, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija.

  September 2, 1896

Aboard the ship Isla de Panay, Rizal leaves Cavite for Barcelona.

 October 3, 1896

Rizal arrives in Barcelona.

 October 4, 1896

By order of Capt. Gen. Despujol, Rizal is incarcerated in Montjuich.

 October 6, 1896

Orders from Madrid, Rizal is sent back to Manila as a prisoner.

 October 31, 1896

A new group of the Katipunan is formed in Cavite; it discards the leadership of Andres Bonifacio and is

headed by Emilio Aguinaldo (Mar 22, 1869 - Feb 6, 1964).

 November 13, 1896

Rizal arrives in Manila and is immediately imprisoned at Fort Santiago.

 November 20, 1896

Rizal is interrogated the first time on charges of partaking in an uprising against the Spanish government.3

 December 3, 1896

Charged with treason, sedition and forming illegal societies, the prosecution arguing that he was

responsible for the deeds of those who read his writings.

3
http://philippines-timeline.com/spanish.htm
  December 12, 1896

Rizal appears in a courtroom where the judges made no effort to check those who cry out for his death.

 December 15, 1896

Wrote an address to insurgent Filipinos to lay down their arms because their insurrection was at that time

hopeless. Address not made public but added to the charges against him.4

 December 20, 1896

Rizal is sentenced to death by a Spanish court martial, and Governor Camilo Polavieja orders his

execution.5

 December 29, 1896

Completes and puts into writing "My Last Farewell." He conceals the poem in an alcohol heating

apparatus and gives it to his family. He may have also concealed another copy of the same poem in one

of his shoes but, if so, it is lost in decomposition in his burial.

 December 30, 1896

Roman Catholic sources allege that Rizal marries Josephine Bracken in his Fort Santiago death cell to

Josephine Bracken; she is Irish, the adopted daughter of a blind American who came to Dapitan from

Hong Kong for treatment.6

Shot on the Luneta, Manila, at 7:03 a.m., and buried in a secret grave in Paco Cemetery. (Entry of his

death was made in the Paco Church Register among suicides.)7

4
http://joserizal.info/Biography/timeline.
5
http://philippines-timeline.com/spanish.htm
6
http://joserizal.info/Biography/timeline.
7
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Rizal