Jose Rizal’s Timeline

(Childhood and Early Education)

June 28, 1848

Marriage of his Parents
 Teodora Moracles Alonso-Realonda Y Quintos, and Francisco Rizal-
Mercado Y Alejandra, married.

June 19, 1861

Born of Rizal
 Rizal was born, as their seventh child.
June 22, 1861
Christened
 Christened as Jose Protacio Rizal-Mercado Y Alonso-Realonda
June 22, 1870
Studied under Justiniano Aquin Cruz

August 24, 1871

Studied at Kalamba public school under Master Lucas Padua
 At age 10
June 10, 1872
Took exam in San Juan de Letran College
 At age 12
June 26, 1872
Started studying at Ateneo Municipal de Manila

June 16, 1875

Became a boarder at Ateneo

March 23, 1876

Received Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree with highest honors, from Ateneo de Manila

July 20, 1877

Entered Sto. Tomas University in the Philosophy course
November 19, 1877
Awarded diploma of honorable mention and merit by the Royal Economic Society of
friends of the Country, Amigos del Pais for his prized poem.

June 23, 1878

Matriculated in the Medical course. Won Liceo Artistico-Literario prize, in poetical
competition for “Indians and Mestizos”, with the poem “To the Philippine Youth”.

April 23, 1880

Received Licco Artistico-Literario diploma of honorable mention for the allegory, “The
Council of the Gods”, in competition open to “Spaniards, mestizos and Indians”, Unjustly
deprived at the first prize.

December 8, 1880
Operetta “On the Banks of the Pasig produced

September 25, 1881

Submitted winning Wax Model design for commemorative medal for the Royal Economic
Society of Friends of the country centennial.

May 3, 1882
Secretly left Manila taking a French mail steamer at Singapore for Marseilles and entering
Spain at Port Bou by railroad. His brother, Paciano Mercado, furnished the money.

June 15, 1882

Arrived in Barcelona
June 20, 1882
Absence noted at Sto. Tomas University, which owned the Kalamba estate. Rizal’s Father
was compelled to prove that he had no knowledge of his son’s plan in order to hold the
land on which he was the University’s tenant.
October 3, 1882
Began studies in Madrid

August 21, 1886

Received degree of Licentiate in Medicine with honors from Central University of Madrid
on June 19 at the age of 24.
 Clinical assistant to Dr. L. de Wecker, a Paris oculist.
Visited Universities of Heidelberg, Leipzig and Berlin.
 Memoirs of a Student in Manila
(Reflection)

Jose Rizal is narrating his memoirs during his childhood days. The day he was born almost
took the life of his mother. His parents brought him to a town which probably a province where he
had a nurse who loves him so much and also taught him some superstitious beliefs such as aswang,
nuno and etc. with his nine siblings. By that time he learned to love his surroundings or should I
say he learns to love the Nature. He lost his sister when he was four years old and that`s the first
time he shed tears caused by love and grief. His parents or his father was his first teacher. He also
experienced living far away from his parents.

For me, Rizal`s life has many lessons to teach. His success doesn`t come from a happy
good living. It comes from all the sorrows, all the lessons he received and from the help of God.
Believing God, and being educated by his creation is the key to success. I learned that to become
successful, I should not rely only to what other`s taught to me but I also need to use my own
capability. Being able to love and to value the things that surrounds me. Education is not enough
to make you become successful but like Jose Rizal, success comes from relying the will of God
and making all experienced an encouragement to become successful. Love from family, the will
of God and the past experienced is what makes you become successful in life.
 Jose Rizal’s Brindis Speech
(Reflection)

The speech was Rizal’s toast to the triumph of D. Juan Luna’s Spolarium painting and the
whole monologue was said in great mediation that his opinion has captured the attention of those
who came for the dinner. In the first few parts, he described the surroundings with much
romanticism like he is circled by “men of heart” and “where noble emotions dwell” and “the air is
full of empathetic good feeling.” At the time said, Philippines were under much oppression by the
Spanish friars that is impossible to talk about it in public unless you would want to be branded as
a filibuster.

He also acknowledges that the Philippines owes Spain in some way saying “Spain as a
mother also teaches her language to Filipinos” but then frowns bitter on the “midget who secure
their position.” Apparently he is making a job at the elite who does everything they can in their
power to stop the education of Filipinos in fears that they may learn to defend themselves. This
attitude back fired against them big time. In conclusion, the innuendos in between lines spoke so
deep that you are taken into a roller coaster ride of emotions starting from joy, anger, grief, and all
ending up with inspired.

It’s about the acknowledgement and thanking them for the pride and glory they gave to the
Filipinos. But most of all, he gives praise to those youth’s actions that can make a difference and
contribute to the glory of the Philippines. In the speech he made, there are values and lessons he
teach us that can be applied in a real world up until now such as mentioning geniuses can be born
and made anytime and anywhere. No one has the right to judge or put down a person because
anyone can be great. He also said that Spain and Philippines are equal, no greater nor slaves. Dr.
Jose Rizal is great because he discussed bravely what the Spaniards are afraid of: EDUCATION
of the Filipinos but what he focused more is to inspire Filipinos and prove how worthy a nation
can be.
 Write an essay with the aim of answering the following: (NOLI ME TANGERE)

A. What is freedom?

 Based on Noli Me Tangere, freedom portrays the different aspects of

gaining independence from social climbers, abusive power, have family
devotion, self-sacrifice, and purity and faithfulness.

B. How is the lack of freedom portrayed in the novel?

 The lack of freedom portrayed in the novel in a way that the Filipinos or
Indios are being controlled by the Spanish in every aspect. Being
controlled in education, religion and especially being controlled by the
government in a way that they are not free to choose or vote a leader.

C. How is the situation in the novel different from today?

 The situation in the novel different from today because the Filipino youths
now a days, have never possessed the intellectual pleasures of reading a
historically significant novel, like Jose Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere”. For the
young generation doing this fruitful activity is some sort of a compulsion
rather than a productive urge of their freewill or volition to do so. We can
say that it is different to our time now because in real life you really need
to fulfill whatsoever the things you were facing. The novel, It didn’t seem
difficult to solve the problem of with it can easily get an idea, when you
compare in real life you needed time to act properly. Unlike in the Bible,
the bible is not a novel because all things written in there was all truth. We
can learn so much things from the bible. It can help us how to deal the
problem properly and also it taught us on how to get closer to our almighty
father Jehovah God.
 Rizal’s annotation of Antonio Morga’s Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas

(Comparing and contrasting Rizal and Morga’s views on Filipino Culture)

Antonio de Morga Jose Rizal annotation

 Spanish conquistador, gov’t official,  The people of the Philippines had a

and historical anthropologist: author of culture on their own, before the
Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas (Events coming of the Spaniards.
in the Philippine Islands).

 He wrote the first lay formal history of  Filipinos were decimated,

the Philippines conquest by Spain. demoralized, exploited and ruined by
the Spanish colonization.

 A doctorate in canon law and civil  The present state of the Philippines
law. was not necessarily superior to its
post.

 Morga describes the culinary art of the  The fish that Morga mentions does not
ancient Filipinos by recording: “they taste better when it is beginning to rot;
prefer to eat salt fish which begin to all on the country “it is bagoong, and
decompose and smell.” all those who have eaten it and tasted
it know it is not or caught not to be
eaten.

 Morga wrote that the purpose for  Rizal argued that the conversion and
writing Sucesos was so he could conquest were not as widespread as
chronicle “the deeds achieved by our portrayed because the missionaries
Spaniards is the discovery, conquest, were only successful in conquering a
and conversion of the Filipinas Islands portion of the population of a certain
– as well as various fortunes that they Islands.
have from time in the great kingdoms
and among the pagan peoples
surrounding the Islands.
OUTPUT
IN
LIFE AND
WORKS OF
RIZAL
GE 9 (MWF 8:00-9:00)

SUBMITTED TO:
MS. JUNE KEZIAH BANDICO

SUBMITTED BY:
MARIALYN CABILIN ABSIN