Jose Rizal (1861-1896)

NHCP Photo Collection, 2025

Location: 55 Waterford Green Common, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 19 June 2025

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 (1887) AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO (1891) WHICH BARED COLONIAL OPRESSION OF THE FILIPINOS. HE ADVOCATED NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM BUT WAS CHARGED WITH INCITING DISSENT.

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

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