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Site of the Tejeros Convention in present-day Rosario, Cavite, which was formerly part of San Francisco de Malabon. The Tejeros Convention (Spanish: Convención de Tejeros; Tagalog: Kapulungan sa Tejeros), also referred to as the Tejeros Assembly or Tejeros Congress, was a meeting held on March 22, 1897, in San Francisco de Malabon, Cavite (now General Trias).
The Acta de Tejeros was a document prepared on March 23, 1897 which proclaimed the events at the Tejeros Convention on March 22 to have been disorderly and tarnished by chicanery. Signatories to this petition rejected the insurgent government instituted at the convention and affirmed their steadfast devotion to the ideals of the Katipunan .
In 1896 and 1897, successive conventions at Imus and Tejeros decided the new republic's fate. In November 1897, the Republic of Biak-na-Bato was established, and the insurgent government promulgated a constitution.
The Tejeros Convention of 1897 was held to reconcile the arguments of two factions of the Katipunan in the province of Cavite, Magdalo and Magdiwang, and it was decided that the Katipunan had to be dissolved to have an election of officers for a revolutionary government.
22 March 1897 – Tejeros Convention. Aguinaldo and Trias was elected as President and Vice-President, respectively. 23 March 1897 – The 19 martyrs of Aklan are executed. 15 April 1897 – President Aguinaldo orders the arrest of Bonifacio. 15 April 1897 – Governor-General Polavieja resigns due to poor health.
Tejeros Revolutionary Government; Katipunan (Magdalo) Cavite: 5. Jose Alejandrino: Brigadier General He was a contributor to La Solidaridad and one of the members of the Propaganda Movement in Spain along with Jose Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Mariano Ponce and Graciano Lopez Jaena
[citation needed] This internal dispute led to the Tejeros Convention and an election in which Bonifacio lost his position and Emilio Aguinaldo was elected as the new leader of the revolution. [105]: 145–147 On March 22, 1897, the convention established the Tejeros Revolutionary Government.
Del Pilar was present in the Tejeros Convention on March 22, 1897, which marked the split between the Magdiwang and Magdalo factions of the Katipunan. Because of the events of the Convention, he aligned himself with Andres Bonifacio, eventually signing the Naic Military Agreement declaring the results of the convention to be null and void.