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Philippines: A Nation's Biography

Okay, this is my second attempt at writing a TL. Hopefully it won't flunk like the last one.

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1872

January 20:
In the Spanish colony of the Philippines, a mutiny breaks out in Cavite. Outraged by the Spanish government's unjust policies, mestizo sergeant Fernando La Madrid led hundreds of disgruntled soldiers and laborers and took Fort San Felipe, killing several Spanish officers.

January 21: Fearing a nationwide rebellion, Governor General Rafael de Izquierdo sent an army under Felipe Ginovés to crush the insurrection. In the ensuing battle the mutineers were quickly beaten, and La Madrid was killed. All remaining mutineers were imprisoned.

February 6: The Cavite mutineers were executed. The government used the incident to suppress the ilustrados. Several prominent intellectuals were arrested for sedition. These included the leaders of the church secularization movement; priests José Burgos, Mariano Gomez and Jacinto Zamora.

February 28: The three priests were found guilty and were executed.

Unspecified: Several ilustrados who escaped persecution fled to Europe and founded the Propaganda Movement.


1887

José Rizal, one of the most prominent ilustrados, published his first novel Noli Me Tángere, a satirical novel about the Philippines' society of the time.


1889

The Propaganda Movement's official organ La Solidaridad printed its first issue.


1891

Rizal published his second novel, El Filibusterismo. It is the sequel to Noli Me Tangere.


1892

July 3:
Rizal returned to the Philippines and founded La Liga Filipina, a civic and mutual aid society.

July 6: Rizal was arrested by Spanish authorities on charges of rebellion.

July 7: Rizal was found guily of charges, and sentenced to be exiled in Dapitan.

At the same day, radical Liga member Andrés Bonifacio and his colleagues founded the Katipunan, a secret society aiming to secure Philippine independence from Spain.

Some time later, by chance, an ilustrado named Marcelo H. Del Pilar discovered the Katipunan's existence through his brother-in-law, Deodato Arellano (the POD).


1893

Seeing the futility of the Propaganda Movement's struggle, coupled with financial difficulty, Del Pilar left La Solidaridad.
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