National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Jose Rizal (1861-1896)

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

Location: Earl Bales Park, Toronto, Canada

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 22 June 2022

Installed by: National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)

Marker text:

JOSE RIZAL

(1861-1896)

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL HERO, BORN ON 19 JUNE 1861, PHYSICIAN, POET, WRITER, EDUCATOR, LINGUIST, INVENTOR.

AUTHORED NOVELS NOLI ME TANGERE AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO (1891) WHICH BARED COLONIAL OPRESSION OF THE FILIPINOS. HE ADVOCATED NON-VIOLENT STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM BUT WAS CHARGED WITH INCITING DISSENT.

THE LIVING SOUL OF 1896 PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION, HE WAS EXECUTED ON 30 DECEMBER 1896.

HIS MARTYRDOM INSPIRED A SENSE OF NATIONHOOD THAT EVENTUALLY LED TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE IN 1898.

Legend

LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Jose Rizal (1861-1896)

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