1892-Rizal returned to the Philippines, he initiated a new movement for the “study and applications

reform.” La Liga Fiipina, which sprang from this initiative, “personified the middle class” to whom “it was
inconceivable to the unlettered masses should be give the privilege of the respectable group.”

1889-Rizal preceded del Pilar in Spain by one year, and when the latter arrived in 1889, Rizal, who as
unaware of del Pilar’s reason for coming to Europe.

1891- The most crucial of these was the Calamba Hacienda case, which began shortly before Rizal’s
second departure for Europe (1888) and ended in 1891, with the eviction, arrest and deportation of
many Calamba tenants, including members of Rizal’s family.

Late March to Earcly April 1889- Another wave of arrests swept Manila, arising from the alleged
discovery that Jose Mara Basa’s brother, Matias was an outlet for antifriar propaganda.

Toward the End of May 1890- The Real Audiencia [Supreme Court] of Manila passed judgement in favor
of the Dominicans, declaring the Calamba tenants as illegal occupants of their land.

September 6, 1890- General Weyler (the notorious “butcher of Cuba” during the Cuban revolution
in1896) began enforcing the will of the Dominican friars ----“Sending artillery and military forces to
Calamba that started to demolish the house of Rizal’s parents whom they arrested with his brothers-in-
law, brother, and sisters, exiling the parents to different places of the Archipeago.

July 1890- As long as Rizal remained in Europe, the specter of Calamba would haunt him. He expressed
himself thus in a letter to Mariano Ponce.

January 31, 1892 – Rizal wrote a letter to Blumentritt about the disaster of the Calamba farming
Community.

April 30, 1892- Rizal wrote to Blumetritt that he could still not get over it, since it happen 2 years ago.

December 30, 1891- Rizal himself recounts to Blumentritt, his parents who refused to vacate their
home, were bodily carried out their furniture and valuables thrown out of their house. They were
deported.
January 1889- Rizal was made honorary president of La Solidaridad association (whose journal carried
the same name) in Madrid, because of his stature among Fiipino expatriates.

1890- As Rizal began to move separatist direction, he expressed his wish that del Pilar assume full reign
in directing the journal.

April 4, 1890- Though still willing to contribute occasional articles to La Solidaridad, Rizal made clear his
dissociation from its assimilationist political objectives such as parliamentary representation in his letter.

August 12, 1891- he wrote some replies to del Pilar about his reasons if he stopped writing for Soli.

October 7, 1891- In Rizal’s letter to del Pilar, he said that he would leave the Filipino in Madrid.

March 31, 1892- Edilberto Evangelista confrm this observations in his letter of support to Rizal, referring
to del Pilar’s faction as “effete generation” saddled with “conservative ideas”.

Late 1891- Rizal had burned his bridges to the Madrid reformists. A surviving fragment of letter dated
October 1891 and signed La’ong La’an.

December 30, 1891- in his letter to Bluementritt, Rizal expressed himself unequivocably that La
Solidaridad is no longer the place to give battle; a new fight.

January 31, 1892- Rizal wrote to Blumentritt that he have lost hope in Spain and he shall not write one
more word for La Solidaridad.

Feb 23, 1892- He wrote to Blementritt, what did he obtain from the campaigns of La Solidaridad and it
seems to him to parley with the government is only a waste of time.

January 30, 1892- the radical buzz in Honk Kong must have reached Blumentritt judging from his letter of
caution to Rizal, entreating him “not to meddle in revolutionary agitations. Because on who initiates a
revolution ought at least to have the probability of success, if he does not wish to burden his conscience
with useless bloodshed.”
January 1892- Antinio Luna’s letter to Rizal indicate that if it is revolutionary, then let it ask for
independence and this can be done anywhere, and for this last purpose Rizal can count on Antonio as a
contribute.

April 29, 1892- Evangelista writes on 1892 on forming a revolutionary

April 15, 1892- La Solidaridad, however, refused to let go and continued to hound him. For his bold
Separist stance Rizal was eternized in the IS April 1892 issue of del Pilar La Sulidaridad, in an article
written by the assimilationist Eduardu de Lete.

May 23 1892- His letter of protest to del Pilar is revealing of their political differences in goad and
methods

June 19, 1892- In his letter to Rizal, Timotio Paez informed Rizal that many Filipinos resented del Pilar for
publishing Lete’s article, and that a colleague, Modesto Español warner that its distribution “would kill
the propaganda at once”

1895- Del Pilar, held on tenaciously when the committee de Propaganda in Manila - which had been
sending the funds, bluntly told him, through Mabim, to close shop

Jan 15,1895- In his La Solidaridad polemic with Barrantes, Rizal declared emphatically that he does not
share Ibara’s news.

Late June 1896- Dr. Pio Valenzuela, who has sent to Dapitan by the Katipunan Supreme Council to
consult with Rizal about the planned revolution.

December 15,1896- Documents written by Rizal himself: Rizal’s memorandum for his defense in his trial
for treason before the Spanish Council of War “Defense del Dr. Jose Rizal”; and the 15 December 1896
“Manifiesto a Algunos Filipinos.”

December 25, 1896- The Final defense of Rizal’s lawyer, D. Luis Taviel de Andrade “Documento Original
de la Defensa de Rizal” read before the council of War on.
September 6, 1896- Dr. Pio Valenzuela’s declarations, as a prisoner of a war, to Spanish authorities; and
his subsequent addendum “Ampliacion a La Declaration Indigatoria que Tiene Prestada Pio Valenzuela.”

December 12, 1896- Rizal’s “Manifiesto” is consistent with his 12 December memorandum, which makes
a reference to Vaenzuela’s visit to Dapitan.

September 23, 1896- Manuel mentions the corroborating testimony of a Katipunero, Jose Dizan. Though
he does not cite it, Mamel refers to Dizon’s prison testimony about Pro Valenzuela collected money
from wealthy Filipinos gathering.

December 15, 1896- Manisfesto was not Rizal’s last word. A more accurate gauge of Rizal’s state of mind
I his last poem, entitled, later given the rather redundant title “Mi ultimo Adios” by scholars.