 During the early years of the Katipunan, Rizal remained in exile at Dapitan.

He had promised the

Spanish governor that he would not attempt an escape, which, in that remote part of the
country, would have been relatively easy.
 Revolution had broken out in Cuba in February 1895, and Rizal applied to the governor to be
sent to that yellow fever-infested island as an army doctor, believing that it was the only way he
could keep his word to the governor and yet get out of his exile. His request was granted, and he
was preparing to leave for Cuba when the Katipunan revolt broke out in August 1896.
 An informer had tipped off a Spanish friar about the society's existence, and Bonifacio, his hand
forced, proclaimed the revolution, attacking Spanish military installations on August 29, 1896.
Rizal was allowed to leave Manila on a Spanish steamship. The governor, however, apparently
forced by reactionary elements, ordered Rizal's arrest en route, and he was sent back to Manila
to be tried by a military court as an accomplice of the insurrection.
 Commanded by Emilio Aguinaldo, the twenty-seven-year-old mayor of the town of Cavite who
had been a member of the Katipunan since 1895, the rebels defeated Civil Guard and regular
colonial troops between August and November 1896 and made the province the center of the
revolution.
 Rizal was brought before a military court on fabricated charges of involvement with the
Katipunan. The events of 1872 repeated themselves. A brief trial was held on December 26
and--with little chance to defend himself--Rizal was found guilty and sentenced to death. On
December 30, 1896, he was brought out to the Luneta and executed by a firing squad.
 Rizal's death filled the rebels with new determination, but the Katipunan was becoming divided
between supporters of Bonifacio, who revealed himself to be an increasingly ineffective leader,
and its rising star, Aguinaldo.