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The National Heroes Committee was tasked to study, evaluate and recommend Filipino national heroes to recognize their heroic character and remarkable achievements for the country. [ 1 ] On November 30, 1994 (Bonifacio Day), President Ramos issued Proclamation No. 510 which declared the year 1996 (the centennial of the Philippine Revolution) as ...
She wrote lectures, essays and short stories to other publications in the Philippines and the rest of the world. She won the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas Award for English fiction in 1988, and the SEA Write Award and the National Book Award in 1990. [5] In the 1960s, she served as Chairman of the Philippine National Historical Commission ...
Who's Who in Philippine History. Manila, Philippines: Tahanan Books. ISBN 9716300352. Ricarte, General Artemio (1963). Memoirs of General Artemio Ricarte. Manila, Philippines: Manila : National Heroes Commission. ISBN 9715380484. Root, Elihu & United States (1902). Elihu Root collection of United States documents relating to the Philippine ...
Apolinario Mabini y Maranán [a] (Tagalog: [apolɪˈnaɾ.jo maˈbinɪ]; July 23, 1864 – May 13, 1903) was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Government, and then as the first Prime Minister of the Philippines upon the establishment of the First Philippine Republic.
Philippine historians regard López Jaena, along with Marcelo H. del Pilar and José Rizal, as the triumvirate of Filipino propagandists. Of these three ilustrados , López Jaena was the first to arrive in Spain and may have begun the Propaganda Movement , which advocated the reform of the then-Spanish colony of the Philippines and which ...
Gabriela Silang was born in barrio Caniogan, Santa, Ilocos to a Spanish Ilocano father named Anselmo Cariño, [1] a trader who ferried his wares from Vigan to Abra along the Abra River and a descendant of Ignacio Cariño, the first Galician from Spain to arrive in Candon in the late 17th century.
The National Historical Commission of the Philippines is a government agency of the Philippines whose mission is "the promotion of Philippine history and cultural heritage through research, dissemination, conservation, sites management and heraldry works and aims to inculcate awareness and appreciation of the noble deeds and ideals of our ...
For his 150 essays and 66 editorials mostly published in La Solidaridad and various anti-friar pamphlets, del Pilar is widely regarded as the "Father of Philippine Journalism." [ 197 ] Samahang Plaridel , an organization of veteran journalists and communicators, was founded in October 2003 to honor del Pilar's ideals.