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On December 30, 1896 Rizal was 35years old that time; he was executed at exactly
7:03am. Rizal was born on June 19, 1861 at Calamba, Laguna. He studied under the
Jesuits and then at the Dominican University of Santo Tomas. He left the Philippines
for his medical studies on 1882.
Rizal was trained by some specialist in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin as an ophthalmic
surgeon. He was also an artist, poet, scholar, historian, researcher and writer. He
can write various languages such as Spanish, Tagalog, German, French, English and
Italian and also spoke few other languages he even knew Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
His references in writing are Cervantes, Schiller, Shakespeare and Dante.
Rizal was considered as a leader by the Filipino students in University of Madrid who
work for reforms in their country. Rizals first political advocacy was for the
assimilation of the Philippines as a province of Spain. Rizal called Spain and
Philippines dos pueblos means two peoples, of equal standing and equal rights in
1884. Spanish was angered by Rizal ad was marked as a filibuster.
Rizal thought that the only solution independence of the Philippines from Spain.
These ideas of Rizal build up his two novels. In 1887 is when Noli Me Tangere was
published in Berlin and then returned to the Philippines his reputation was
subversive and heretic. After 6 months of fearfulness of his parents for him he
returned to London. In London he did historical research for 8 months in the library
of the British Museum. Rizal found Antonio de Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas
(1609), an eyewitness account of the 16th century Philippines. Rizal added his own
notes and commentary.
Rizals exile in Dapitan ended after four years, Rizal accepted as a volunteer
physician to work with the Spanish army in Cuba. When Rizal was in Barcelona, he
was brought back to Manila to stand trial by a court martial. He was accused of
instigating and leading the rebellion.