Rizal only wanted reform.

He established La Liga Filipina to ask for

reforms. They wanted to make the Filipinos and Spanish equal in the eyes of the
law, to make the Philippines a province of Spain and make Filipinos citizens of
Spain, and for the Spanish friars to be sent back to Spain and make the Filipino
friars the parish priests of the churches. Rizal's goal was not to liberate the
Filipinos from Spain, but to make a better life for Filipinos. I am not saying
that I despise Rizal or anything. Everybody has to admit the fact that he is a
doctor, painter, sculptor, linguist, and a lot more. I very much admire Rizal, I
totally do. Even Bonifacio extremely admired him, but I think Rizal should have
gotten the National Model title.
Andres Bonifacio's goal was total separation from the Spaniards. He
believed that we should have total independence and our own government. A
government run by Filipinos.
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Rizal because of his peaceful propaganda and diplomatic approaches in attaining
Philippine freedom and independence, unlike Bonifacio who chooses revolution.
They placed rizal as a hero instead of the kali-gun expert bonifacio to control
the filipino people minds by implementing to their brains that a hero should not
fight the government with swords or guns. filipino should fight only by the power
of the pen, should not fight back
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According to the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)there
has never been any law passed to recognize a national hero in the country. There
are only laws and proclamations honoring and recommending them.
Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480 in Sabrosa, Portugal to Rui de Magalhaes and
Alda de Mesquita. Because his family had ties to the royal family, Magellan
became a page to the Portuguese queen. allowed him the opportunity to become
educated and learn about the various Portuguese exploration expeditions.Magellan
took part in his first sea voyage in 1505 when Portugal sent him to India to help
install Francisco de Almeida as the Portuguese viceroy. He also experienced his
first battle there in 1509 when one of the local kings rejected the practice of
paying tribute to the new viceroy.he took leave without permission and was
accused of illegally trading with the Moors.
The Spanish and the Spice Islands
Around this same time, the Spanish were engaged in trying to find a new route to
the Spice Islands (Indonesia) after the Treaty of Tordesillas divided the world
in half in 1494.
Similar to his predecessor Columbus, Magellan believed that the Spice Islands
could be reached by sailing west through the New World. He proposed this idea to
Manuel I, the Portuguese king, but was rejected. On1518, Charles I was persuaded
by Magellan and granted him a large sum of money to find a route to the Spice
Islands by sailing west, Magellan set sail going west toward the Spice Islands in
September 1519 with five ships (the Conception, the San Antonio, the Santiago,
the Trinidad, After months of sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, the fleet
anchored at what is today Rio de Janeiro to restock its supplies on December 13,
1519. From there, they moved down the coast of South America looking for a way
into the Pacific. Magellan sent the Santiago on a mission to look for a way
through to the Pacific Ocean. In May, the ship was wrecked, in the end of
November, the remaining three ships exited what Magellan named the Strait of All
Saints and sailed into the Pacific Ocean. The crew was able to stop at a nearby
island in January 1521 to eat fish and seabirds but their supplies were not
adequately restocked until March when they stopped in Guam. On March 28, they
landed in the Philippines and befriended a tribal king, Rajah Humabon of Cebu
Island. After spending time with the king, Magellan and his crew were persuaded
into helping the tribe kill their enemy Lapu-Lapu on Mactan Island. On April 21,
1521, Magellan took part in the Battle of Mactan and was killed by Lapu-Lapu's
army.
--Sebastian Cabot, son of John Cabot,. He accompanied his parents to Spain and
England, but he would have been too young to sail with his father on the Atlantic
voyages of 1497 and 1498. Although Sebastian had not yet commanded an expedition
of his own.Cabot almost certainly made a voyage for England in 1508-1509, in
which he sailed far northward and discovered the entrance to Hudson Bay. He
considered this to be the water passage leading around North America to the
Orient.
In 1518, after the death of the Spanish navigator Juan Daz de Sols, Cabot
became pilot major for Spain. He sailed in command of his own expedition in 1526
with the intention of following the lead of Magellan and Garca Jofr de Loaisa
to the Moluccas. He sailed 4 ships with 250 men but failed to find the Strait of
Magellan.
Cabot, from his youth, had been mainly interested in a Northwest Passage, but his
company decided to try the Northeast first. The first expedition which he planned
was commanded by Sir Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancellor. Willoughby
discovered the Novaya Zemlya islands but died of winter hardship in Lapland.
Chancellor reached the White Sea and from the port of Archangel traveled overland
to Moscow, where he concluded a favorable trade agreement with the czar, Ivan the
Terrible.
The Muscovy Company made another effort at finding a Northeast Passage. A single
small ship, the Serchthrift, commanded by Stephen Borough, left England in 1556
for this purpose. Cabot performed his last-known act connected with navigation by
going to wish the mariners a successful voyage. He died the next year.-
Alvaro SaavedraWas born in 15
th
century. Hernando Cortes, his cousin and viceroy
of Soanish colony. Appointed Saadvedra to command the expedition. It consisted of
3 ships, Florida, Santiago and Espiritu Santo with 120men.
Their goal is to see what might had happened to the survivors of Magellan
expedition. 2
nd
is to look for Trinidad which had not been heard from, to inquire
about what became of the Cabot expedition and to see what happened to the Loaisa
Expedition.
Cortes solicited the friendship of the Cebuanos, asked to be allowed to trade
with them, offered pay a ramson for any Spaniard who might be a prisoner in Cebu.
A violent storm in mid- pacific sank two of the ships. With only one ship
remaining, the expedition reached Guam and took possession of yap Island in the
name of the King of Spain. In 1528, the ship reached Mindanao where the ment
rescued two survivors of the Magellan expedition.From Mindanao, Saavedra ship to
cebu but drove by wind to Indonesia where they found the Survivors of the Loiaisa
expedition. He tried to return to Mexico buf failed. He died in sea.
--Ruy Lpez de was a Spanish explorer who sailed the Pacific from Mexico (New
Spain) to establish a permanent foothold for Spain in the East Indies, which in
1543 were near to the [Line of Demarcation of Portugal. was commissioned in 1541
by the viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, who was the first colonial
administrator in the New World, to send an expedition to the "Islas del Poniente"
9Philippines). His fleet of six ships, the Santiago (the flagship), Jorge, San
Antonio, San Cristobal, San Martin and San Juan de Letran left Barra de Navidad,
New Spain with 370 to 400 men. "Los Jardines" (The Gardens).. This ship
ultimately reached the island of Mazaua, anchorage of the Magellan expedition in
March-April 1521. This was the second visit of Gines de Mafra to this island
which is mistakenly identified today as Limasawa in southern Leyte.
On February 29, they entered Baganga Bay on east Mindanao. Lpez de Villalobos
named Mindanao Caesaria Karoli after the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, ]] of
Spain, This isle had become famous for its friendly and generous reception to the
Magellan fleet. Because of northerlies, they could not make any headway. After a
ten-day struggle, they dropped down and reached Saranggani. Around the first week
of July San Cristobal, to the delight and relief of everyone, came out of nowhere
bringing food from Mazaua. On August 4, San Juan and San Cristobal left for
Leyte. A Portuguese contingent arrived on August 7, and delivered a letter from
Jorge de Castro, governor of the Moluccas, demanding an explanation for the
presence of the fleet in Portuguese territory.
. He quit Sarranggani to go to Abuyog, Leyte with his remaining ships, the San
Juan and the San Cristobal. The fleet could not make headway because of
unfavorable winds. In April 1544, he left for Amboyna in the Moluccas. He and his
crew members then made their way to the islands of Samar and Leyte, where he
named them Las Islas Felipinas (The Philippine Islands) in honour of Philip II.
Driven away by hostile natives, hunger and a shipwreck, Lpez de Villalobos was
forced to abandon his settlements in the islands, and the expedition. He and his
crewmembers sought refuge in the Moluccas where they quarrelled with the
Portugal|Portuguese], who imprisoned them. Ruy Lpez de Villalobos died on April
4 in his prison cell on the island of Ambon Island
Miguel lopez de legaspi. 1st Govenor and Captain General of the Philippines,
Spanish Conquistador. Born in Zumarraga, Guipuzcoa, Spain in 1502. He moved to
New Spain (Mexico) in 1528 and married Isabel Garces. They had nine children
together before her death in the mid 1550's. In those years he worked as leader
of the financial department council and Civil Govenor of Mexico City. By the
order of King Philip II and commissioned by Viceroy Luis de Velasco, to find the
Spice Islands first discovered by the Magellan expedition, Legazpi set sail with
five ships and 500 soldiers on November 21, 1564. They landed in Cebu on February
13, 1565. They went to the islands of Leyete and Camiguin in March, where he made
a "blood compact" with local chieftan. He returned to Cebu in April, and
destroyed some villages while founding the first two Spanish settlements. In
1568, after hearing rumors of rich resources in Manila, he dispatched his Lt.
Commanders, Goiti and Salcedo to explore the north. On May 24,1570, Goiti's men
conquered Manila. Legazpi established a permanent settlement there on June 24,
1571, and ordered the walled city of Intramuros constructed. With the help of
Augustinian and Franciscan friars, he became the first govenor of the islands and
converted many natives to the Catholic religion. On August 20,1572, Legazpi died
of a heart attack. He was poor and bankrupt due to spending his fortune on his
conquests. He was laid to to rest in the San Agustin church.