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• London in 1888 was the largest city on

earth
– Mercantile and banking center of the world
– The capital of the largest empire in history-
UK
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• Dr. Reinhold Rost
– Librarian at the India Office
– The first person Rizal contacted in England
– Greatest Sanskrit Scholar in Europe
– Lended Rizal the “Sucesos de las Islas
Filipinas”(Events in the Philippine Islands) by
Antonio de Morga translated by Lord Henry
Edward John Stanley into english
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• Antonio de Morga
– Judge of the Real Audiencia
– One-time acting Gov-Gen of the Philippines
– Author of the Sucesos de las Filipinas which
was originally published in 1609 in Mexico
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• Reading Room of the British Museum
– “breeding place of revolutions”
– Was the most extensive library in the world
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• The Triumph of Death over Life
– Sculpture by Rizal
– Has a strangely haunting beauty
• Antonio Maria Regidor
– Paid for the Morga Edition
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• Chalcot Crescent off Primrose Hill
• Where Rizal stayed

• Manifestation of 1888
– Gobernadorcillos of Manila presented the Civil
Governor with a petition demanding the
expulsion of the friars from the Philippines
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• Valentin Ventura
– Close friend of Rizal from Paris
• Mariano Ponce
– Barcelona
• Eduardo de Lete
– Editor of España en Filipinas, a politically
sterile publication
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• Marcelo Hilario del Pilar
– Plaridel
– Born 1850 at Cupang in Bulacan
– Educated at San Jose and Santo Tomas
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• December
– Barcelona colony formed an association of
masonic character called La Solidaridad
– Rizal accepted presidency
– Launched a fornightly newspaper of the same
name
• The political programme of La Solidaridad
was to demand:
– The secularization of the parishes and
removal of the friars
– Representation of the Philippines in the
Cortes
– Participation in the affairs of Government
– Equality before the law
– Freedom of assemblange, of press, and of
speech
– Wider social and individual freedom and
– Assimilation
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• Graciano Lopez Jaena
– First editor of La Solidaridad
• Other contributors to La Solidaridad
– Mariano Ponce
– Antonio Luna
– Rizal
– Ferdinand Blumentritt
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• May 1888- Gen Terrero left the Philippines
• A few weeks later arrived his successor-
Gen Valeriano Weyler
– Native of Mallorva
– “the butcher”
– Inventor of the concentration camp
With Terrero out of the way, Noli Me
Tangere had been formally banned.
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• Manuel Hidalgo
– Brother in law of Rizal
– Accused of being a filibustero
– Exiled to Bohol
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• Gertrude Beckett
– Eldest daughter of the Beckett family
– This family being Rizal’s boardmates in the
Chalcot Crescent
– Another love affair of Rizal