IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER OF RIZAL

PRELIM
CHAPTERS	SESSION		DATE	TOPICS/ EVENTS
PART I	1			RIZAL LAW (R.A No. 1425)
PART II	2			19th CENTURY OF THE WORLD
PART III	3			THE CHILDHOOD YEARS OF RIZAL
			19 June 1861	Birth of Jose Mercado, the seventh child of Francisco Mercado Rizal and Teodora Alonso y Quinto.
			22 June 1862	Rev. Rufino Collantes baptizes Jose Mercado with Rev. Pedro Casana as sponsor.
			1869	At the age of eight Jose writes in Tagalog the poem Sa Aking Kabata.
			1870	Paciano takes Jose to Biñan to study Latin and Spanish under Justiniano Aquino Cruz.
			17 December 1870	Jose returns to Calamba aboard the motorboat Talim. His parents plan to transfer him to Manila to continue his studies.
			1871	Jose’s mother is imprisoned for allegedly trying to poison his aunt.
PART IV	4			ACADEMIC YEARS OF RIZAL
			10 June 1872	Jose takes the entrance examination for the secondary course at the Colegio De San Juan de Letran. Subjects include Christian Doctrine, Arithmetic, and Reading.
			26 June 1872	He attends classes for the first time at the Ateneo Municipal and boards at a house of an elderly spinster named Titay on Calle Caraballo.
			5 December 1875	Writes the poems El Combate: Urbiztondo, Terror de Jolo; El Embarque, Y Es Espanol: Elcano El Primiero en dar Vuelto al Mundo.
			14 March 1877	Rizal finishes the course Bachiller en Artes with the general average of Sobresaliente.
			20 March 1877	The date of issuance of his diploma in Bachiller en Artes.
			June 1877	Meets Segunda Katigbak and makes her a pencil sketch of her.
			15 December 1877	Rizal rides his white horse on his way to meet Segunda Katigbak who is set to marry Arturo Luz in Lipa.
			6 January 1878	Rizal returns to Manila to resume his studies; takes a course in Surveying at the Ateneo and at the same time taking up Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas.
			21 May 1878	Rizal passes the examination for surveyors but is not issued the diploma for being under aged.
	5		2 June 1878	Enrolls in the Medicine course at the University of Santo Tomas.
			22 November 1879	Rizal receives an award a silver pen for his winning poem A La Juventud Filipina.
			1880	Rizal fails to salute the lieutenant of the Civil Guards and get whipped; he elevates the case to the Governor General to no avail.
			13 April 1880	Rizal receives the first prize for his play El Consejo de los Dioses.
			8 December 1880	Rizal’s work Junto al Pasig is presented at the auditorium of the Ateneo de Manila
			25 November 1881	Rizal is granted the title of Surveyor by the Direccion General de Administracion Civil
PART V	6			FIRST TRIP ABROAD/DECISION TO STUDY ABROAD
			1 May 1882	Rizal leaves Calamba for his first trip abroad.
			3 May 1882	Rizal leaves Manila for Spain aboard the Salvadora.
			9 May 1882	Arrives in Singapore and tours the colony.
			11 May 1882	Boards the Djemnah for his trip to Spain.
			12 June 1882	Arrives in Marseilles, France and explores the city.
			15 June 1882	Leaves Marseilles for Barcelona by train.
	7		12 September 1882	Rizal enrolls for a medical course at the Universidad Central de Madrid.
			2 October 1882	Attends the first day of his class.
			4 October 1882	He recites Me Piden Versos before the members of the Circulo Hispano-Filipino
			1 January 1883	Rizal writes about waking up tired and breathless as he had a terrible dream of dying on the night of December 30.
			17 June 1884	Pawns his jewels to pay for his examination fees.
			21 June 1884	Rizal finishes his Licentiate in Medicine with the grade of Aprobado.
			22 June 1884	Delivers a speech honouring Juan Luna and Felix Resurrection Hidalgo.
			5 November 1884	Rizal receives news that his speech in Spain made many enemies and caused his mother’s illness.
			19 June 1885	Rizal finishes the degree of Licientiate in Philosophy and Letters from the Unibersidad Central de Madrid with the grade of Sobresaliente.
	8		4 December 1885	Rizal practices ophthalmology with Dr. Wecker at the Crugen Clinic.
			17 February 1886	Rizal visits the clinic of Dr. Otto Becker.
			11 March 1886	He writes a letter to his sister Trinidad about German women describing the admirable qualities of German women.
			22 April 1886	Rizal write A las Flores de Heidelbreg
			11 January 1887	Rizal meets Feodor Jagor who invites him to come to the meeting of the German Anthropological Society.
	9		29 March 1887	The Noli Me Tangere comes off the press in Berlin.
			13 May 1887	Rizal and Maximo Viola arrive in Leitmeritz and meet Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt.
	10		4 July 1887	Rizal leaves for the Philippines aboard the Djemnah
MIDTERM
PART VI	1-10			NOLI ME TANGERE: A Diagnosis to Filipino Society
SEMIFINAL
PART VII	1			THE FIRST HOMECOMING
		5 August 1887		Rizal arrives in Manila after staying five years in Europe.
		15 August 1887		Archbishop Pedro Payo instructs UST Rector to review Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere. The committee later issues negative information about the novel.
		20 August 1887		Governor General Emilio Terrero requests from Rizal a copy of the Noli Me Tangere.
	2	October 1887		Rizal introduces gymnastics and other sports to discourage his townmates from gambling.
		29 December 1887		The permanent Board of Censors under Fr. Salvador Font issues a final judgment prohibiting the distribution of the Noli Me Tangere.
		January 1888		Rizal writes a report outlining the grievances of the tenants of the Calamba Estate to Governor General Terrero. The report precipitates the protesta de Calamba.
PART VIII	3			DEPARTURE FOR EUROPE
		19 February 1888		Visits Macau aboard the Kui Kiang.
		22 February 1888		Rizal leaves Yokohama, Japan aboard the Oceanic
		28 February 1888		Arrives in Yokohama and observes the customs of the Japanese.
	4	7 March 1888		He lives in the Spanish legation and stays there until April 13, 1888. He engages himself with Usui Seiko.
		13 April 1888		He departs Japan for San Francisco aboard the Belgic and arrives there on April 28, 1888.
		5 May 1888		Rizal lands in San in San Francisco; checks in at the Palace hotel and explores the city.
	5	8 May 1888		He begins his crossing of the United States by rail and arrives in New York on May 31, 1888
		16 May 1888		Leaves New York for Liverpool, England aboard the City of Rome.
		25 May 1888		Leaves Liverpool for London
	6	August 1888		Rizal reads and annotates Antonio Morga’s Sucesos en las Islas Filipinas.
		19 September 1888		Finishes annotation of the Sucesos and sends it to the printers on 23 July 1889
	7	November 1889		Romance with the Boustead sisters.
	8	18 September 1891		El Filibusterismo comes off the press.
		3 October 1891		With 600 copies of El Filibusterismo Rizal decides to leave Hong Kong.
	9	7 October 1891		He informs Marcelo H. del Pilar that he is no longer writing for La Solidaridad as he said it was being run like a private enterprise.
	10	January 1892		Rizal begins his work on his third novel.
FINAL
PART IX	1- 3			EL FILIBUSTERISMO: A Revolution that Failed
PART X	4			BACK TO HONG KONG AND THE PHILIPPINES
		26 June 1892		After staying for almost two years in Hong Kong Rizal arrives in Manila.
		27 June 1892		He tours town in Tarlac, Bulacan, and Pampanga.
		29 June 1892		Meets Governor General Eulogio Despujol and discusses the North Borneo resettlement project.
	5	3 July 1892		Founds the La Liga Filipina in IlayaStreet, Tondo, Manila.
	6	7 July 1892		Rizal is summoned by Despujol to Malacañan and confronted by Handbills entitled Pobres Frailes. Is arrested and deportedto Dapitan.
		14 July 1892		Rizal is taken to the steamer Cebu for deportation to Dapitan and arrives there July 17.
		7 September 1892		The beginning of Rizal’s correspondence with Fr. Pablo Pastells, S.J. as the Jesuits were trying to win him back to the Catholic fold.They fail in convincing him to retract his Masonic beliefs.
	7	28 August 1893		He meets Josephine Bracken with whom he falls in love and later proposes.
		4 November 1893		Rizal reports that he met a certain Pablo Mercado, said to be his relative but was an assassin named Florenciano Namaan hired by the friars out to kill him.
		1894		He reports that he was busy treating patients in Dapitan.
		May 1895		Rizal request to be transferred to the Ilocos or to Spain on account of his failing health.
		15 December 1895		Rizal volunteers o serve as a medical doctor in Cuba to Governor General Ramon Blanco.
PART XI	8			RIZAL AND THE REVOLUTION
		21 June 1896		Rizal was visited by Dr. Pio Valenzuela who seeks his advice about launching a revolution against Spain. Rizal refuses to have any part in the movement.
		1 July 1896		A letter arrives from Manila informing Rizal that his offer to serve as a medical doctor in Cuba was accepted. He leaves Dapitan on July 1, 1896 for Manila on the fist leg of his trip to Cuba.
		6 August 1896		Rizal boards the cruiser Castilla while waiting to leave Spain.
		4 September 1896		Rizal is informed that he was the cause of the disturbances in Manila as the Philippine Revolution had broken out.
		30 September 1896		After sailing through the Suez Canal, Rizal was placed under arrest aboard the Isla de Panay. He was taken to Montjuich castle before being shipped back to Manila on October 6 aboard the cruiser Colon.
PART XII	9			THE TRIAL AND MARTYRDOM
		8 November 1896		Rizal arrives in Manila and is taken to Fort Santiago.
		20 November 1896		He is taken before Col. Francisco Olive for questioning and on 11 December. He was informed of the charges against him. He chooses Lt. Luis Taviel de Andrade as his defender.
		15 December 1896		Rizal writes a manifesto urging the people to stop the rebellion and accused the revolutionaries of using his name without his permission. The manifesto was suppressed by the Spanish authorities.
		26 December 1896		Actual trial of Rizal. The court martial reached its decision on the same day and recommended death by musketry.
		28 December 1896		Governor General Camila de  Polavieja approves the death sentence for Rizal.
		29 December 1896		Rizal met his close relatives for the last time and asks for their forgiveness. He signs his declaration of retraction from free-masonry.
	10	30 December 1896		During the early morning hours he had four confessions and received communion. He marries Josephine Bracken. At 6:30 in the morning Rizal begins his march towards Bagumbayan and is executed at 7:03 in the morning.