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This flag was first unveiled on August 23, 1896, during the Cry of Pugadlawin where the assembled Katipunan members tore their cedulas (community tax certificates) in defiance of Spanish authority. The flag was used later during the Battle of San Juan del Monte on August 30, 1896, the first major battle of the Philippine Revolution. Mariano Llanera
The Evolution of the Philippine Flag (Filipino: Ebolusyon ng Bandilang Pilipino) [1] is a set of flags consisting of select banners of the Katipunan of the Philippine Revolution. Often displayed with the flag of the First Republic , it is sometimes erroneously interpreted to imply the chronology of the national flag of the Philippines .
The first flag of the Katipunan was a red rectangular flag with a horizontal alignment of three white Ks (an acronym for the Katipunan's full name, Kataas-taasang Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan – Supreme and Venerable Society of the Sons of the Nation). The flag's red field symbolized blood, as members of the Katipunan ...
English: First version of the official flag of the Philippines. Created by the Katipunan at Naic, Cavite and first displayed in 1897. It features an eight-rayed white sun with a mythical face on a field of red.
Only during a state of war: State and War flag: The national flag, hoisted with red and blue fields inverted, unique among the national flags. Naval ensign and jack: Eight-rayed golden sun and three stars of the national flag on an azure field. 2005–present: Flag of the Philippine Armed Forces
The present-day design of the Philippine flag features the eight-ray sun, which, some of the provinces that Blanco took under martial law on August 30, 1896, took a representation. The eight rays of the sun represent the eight provinces that initiated revolution against Spain: Manila , Cavite , Bulacan , Pampanga , Nueva Ecija , Bataan , Laguna ...
The Katipunan (lit. ' Association '), officially known as the Kataastaasang Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan [6] [7] [8] [a] (lit. ' Supreme and Venerable Association of the Children of the Nation '; Spanish: Suprema y Venerable Asociación de los Hijos del Pueblo) and abbreviated as the KKK, was a revolutionary organization founded in 1892 by a group of Filipino nationalists ...
The Katipunan was more than a secret revolutionary society; it was, withal, a Government. It was the intention of Bonifacio to have the Katipunan govern the whole Philippines after the overthrow of Spanish rule. [1] [4] Likewise, Renato Constantino and others wrote that the Katipunan served as a shadow government. [5] [6] [7] [8]