After Jose Rizal’s fourth year in medical studies in Santo Tomas, the University of Higher Learning in the Philippines whom Rizal was disgusted of its primitive method of instruction and the racial prejudice of Dominican Professors against...
Jose Rizal departed from Singapore on board of the ship Dyemnah, a French streamer, on May 11. Majority of the passengers were French-speaking. He tried to converse in French using what he learned from Ateneo but to his dismay he was not understood....
Jose Rizal departed Barcelona on October 6, 1886 to face trial in the Philippines. While on board, the officers confiscated the diary of Rizal, they were curious what contained in it and trying to find entries that would incriminate him in the...
Mistaken Freedom Jose Rizal was so happy with his ended exile and granted freedom. Never he had thought that it was an orchestrated grand betrayal. Leaving Dapitan at midnight boarded on Espana Streamer, at dawn the next day it anchored at...
1874 My first Inspiration – dedicate to his mother 1875 Felicitation The Departure: Hymn to Magellan’s Fleet. And He is Spanish: El Cano, the first to Circumnavigate the World ‘The Battle: Urbiztondo, Terror of Jolo These...
On June 10, 1872, Jose together with his brother went to Manila to grant his wish of enrolling Jose in San Juan de Letran. Jose Rizal took the entrance examination and passed them with flying colors, then he went back to Calamba to stay for a while...
The year 1872, when Jose Rizal was eleven years old, two important events were unfolded which influenced the life of the hero. These events awakened the nationalism spirit in Jose Rizal that he lived up to the day he was shot at the Bagumbayan: ...