Childhood and Early Education of

Jose
Rizal
June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896
 José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda Childhood and Early Education
June 22, 1861
He was baptized JOSE RIZAL 1864
MERCADO at the Catholic of Barely three years old, Rizal
Calamba by the parish priest Rev. learned the alphabet from his
Rufino Collantes with Rev. Pedro mother.
Casañas as the sponsor.

1865
June 19, 1861 September 28, 1862 When he was four years old, his
JOSE RIZAL, the seventh child of The parochial church of Calamba sister Conception, the eight child
Francisco Mercado Rizal and Teodora and the canonical books, including in the Rizal family, died at the age
Alonso y Quintos, was born in Calamba, the book in which Rizal’s of three. It was on this occasion
Laguna. baptismal records were entered, that Rizal remembered having
were burned. shed real tears for the first time.
 José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda Childhood and Early Education
1870
June 6, 1868 His brother Paciano brought Rizal to Biñan, Laguna. He
With his father, Rizal made a pilgrimage to Antipolo to was placed under the tutelage of Justiniano Aquino
fulfill the vow made by his mother to take the child to Cruz, studying Latin and Spanish. In this town, he also
the Shrine of the Virgin of Antipolo should she and her learned the art of painting under the tutorship of an old
child survive the ordeal of delivery which nearly painter by the name of Juancho Carrera.
caused his mother’s life.

1865 – 1867 December 17, 1870

During this time his mother taught him 1869 Having finished his studies in Biñan, Rizal
how to read and write. His father hired a • At the age of eight, Rizal wrote his first returned to Calamba on board the motorboat
classmate by the name of Leon Monroy poem entitled "Sa Aking Mga Kabata." Talim. His parents planned to transfer him to
who, for five months until his (Monroy) The poem was written in tagalog and had Manila Where he could continue his studies.
death, taught Rizal the rudiments of for its theme "Love of One’s Language.“
Latin. • Jose left Calamba for Biñan.
 José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda Childhood and Early Education
March 14, 1877
• Rizal graduated high honors in Ateneo Municipal.
• Jose Rizal received his Bachelor of Arts with a grade of "sobresaliente"
1872
with highest honor.
Rizal heard the word filibuster for the first time which his
1877
father forbid the members of his family to utter, including
• In June José begins to go to school at St. Tomas University in Manila
such names as Cavite and Burgos
where he studies philosophy.
June 10, 1872
Rizal took the entrance exam in Ateneo

1871 1878
• His mother was imprisoned in Sta. Cruz, Laguna 1875 Rizal shifted courses from
for allegedy poisoning the wife of her brother Rizal enters the Ateneo as a Philosophy to Medicine because
Jose Alberto, a rich property owner of Biñan. boarder at just 14 years of age. of his mother's failing eyesight.
• Jose continues his education under the
instruction of Lucas Padua
 José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda Childhood and Early Education
May 3, 1882
Rizal gets money from his brother, Paciano, and travels
secretly from Manila to Spain.
June 16, 1882 1883
Rizal reached Barcelona and was able to meet up with his Rizal wrote “A la senorita CO y R.” for
former classmates in Ateneo. Consuelo.

November 25, 1881 August 18, 1882 January 2, 1884

Rizal acquired the title of "perito agrimensor" (expert Rizal wrote an essay entitled "El Amor Rizal proposed the writing of a
surveyor when he studied vocations course in Patrio" (Love of country) and published it in novel about the Philippines written
Ateneo. Diaryong Tagalog. by a group of Filipinos.
November 3, 1882
Rizal moved in Madrid.
 José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda Childhood and Early Education
June 3, 1887
Rizal and Viola drank beer in Baverieche,
Bierhalle, Switzerland. A paper napkin with the
trademark of the said establishment proves that
1885-1886
they were in this place on their way to Geneva.
Rizal specialized in ophthalmology.
They left te place the following day.

June 6, 1887
June 19, 1885 Rizal and Viola arrived at Geneva and boarded at
March 21, 1887
Rizal finished the degree in Licentiate in Philosophy Rue due Rhone 3, Pension Bel-Air. Here Rizal
Rizal published Noli Me Tangere with the
and Letters with grade sobresaliente from the Central expressed his feeling against the exhibition of the
help of Maximo Viola.
Universidad of Madrid. Igorots in Madrid side by side with the animals
and palnts. In a letter to Blumentritt, he wished the
Igorots would die immediately to avoid further
sufferings.
 José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda Childhood and Early Education

August 8, 1887
Taking the boat to Biñan, he left Manila
June 23, 1887 Monday morning for Calamaba via Pasig River.
Rizal and Maximo Viola parted at Geneva, He found the river more exuberant than before.
after visiting European cities.

August 18, 1887

June 19, 1887 August 5, 1887 In a letter, Arcbishop P. Payo instructed Fr. Gregorio
With Maximo Viola, Rizal celebrated his 26 th
At 9 o’clock in the evening, Rizal arrived at Echevarria, Rector of the University of Sto. Thomas,
birthday in Geneva Switzerland. Manila after 5 years of study and patriotic that an information about Noli Me Tangere be issued by
labors in Europe. a Commission composed of University professors Fr.
Matias Gomez, Fr. Norberto del Prado and Fr. Evaristo
Fernandez Arias.
 José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda Childhood and Early Education
October 1887
September 1887 In order to discourage his town mates from going to
Rizal decided not to leave his family within cockpits and other forms of gambling, he encouraged and
this year. His sister Olympia died of popularized physical exercise by giving classes in
hemorrhage while giving birth. His father did gymnastic. Meanwhile, he was happy to know that Prof.
not permit him to go out alone and eat in the Blumentritt was translating his novel to German, saying it
house of his relatives. was great honor for him.

October 19, 1887

August 30, 1887 September 26, 1887 Rizal made a pencil drawing of a sailboat sailing on
He left Calamba for Manila to see Governor-General He sent Blumentritt cigarettes, sampaguita, Lagunade Bay, which he saw with Jose Taviel de
on the issue of Noli Me Tangere which caused cinnamon, kamuning flowers, and a Tagalog Andrade, Lieutenant of the Civil Guards assigned by the
torment among the friars in the Philippines. lighter which he himself invented in Governor-General Terrero to protect him, during an
Calamba which he called Sulpakan. excursion to Los Baños. This drawing was sent to
Blumentritt.
 José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda Childhood and Early Education
January 8, 1888
December 3, 1887 Rizal wrote a petition to the Administrator of Public
He was able to earn $900 from his medical Islands of Laguna about the Haciendas of the friars in
practice. He thought of taking with him the Calamba. He cited all the grievances of the Calamba folks
amount when he would leave for abroad. and tenants against the supposed owner of the hacienda.

February 3, 1888
December 1887 December 29, 1887 Rizal, after staying in the Philippines for almost six
Rizal and Maximo Viola met again in Manila in the The Permanent Board Of Censure headed months, left Manila for Hongkong, bringing with him
house of Pedro Serrano, on San Jose Street (Trozo). by Fr. Salvador Font issued a judgment P5,000 which he earned from his medical practice.
Viola endorsed to Rizal a Patient named Lorenzo absolutely prohibiting the circulation of the
Tuazon for an eye operation. Noli Me Tangere in the Philppines.
 José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda Childhood and Early Education

July 3, 1892
Rizal organized La Liga Filipina, a secret
organization. It aimed to change the way the December 29, 1896
government was run in a peaceful way. He wrote the Last Farewell.

1891 July 7, 1892 December 30, 1896

El Filibusterismo, sequel to Noli, was In less than a week after the La Liga was He was executed in Bagumbayan (now Luneta)
printed in Gante, Belgium. organized, Captain General Despujol ordered
Rizal's exile to Dapitan, on suspicion of his
involvement in rebellion. In Dapitan, he opened
a school with fourteen(14) pupils.
 Group 3
Jebbie Jurado
Leonila Dotimas
Marilyn Seredio
Lourieji Arucan
Ma. Angelica Peralta
John Marlou Ganzagan
Jan Kian Meim
Kevin Olidan