Timeline of dr.
jose riZAl 11-20
Yrs old
LIFE
1882
In May Rizal gets money from
his brother and travels secretly
from Manila to Spain aboard a
French ship and railroad
entering Spain at the Port Bou.
1882
In June St. Tomas University
realizes Rizal is nowhere to be
found and threatens to take land
away from his father who is a
tenant even though his father
has no idea of his whereabouts.
June 15 Rizal makes his arrival
in Barcelona and begins to study
again in Madrid in October of
that same year.
WORKS
1886
Rizal receives a degree in
medicine from the Central
University of Madrid at the age
of 23. He then becomes an
assistant to Dr. L. de Wecker
and visits many universities in
Berlin, Leipzig, and Heidelberg
in the country of Germany.
1883
September 28, Rizal goes back
to Madrid and enrolls in
Universidad Central for a
second course in medicine
WRITINGS
1887
Rizal finishes his first novel
titled Noli Me Tangere while
staying in Berlin. The novel
offends Catholic officials and
Rizal is deemed to be a
troublemaker
1882
August 20, Diariong Tagalog
publishes Rizal’s first essay
“Amor Patria,” using Laong
Laan as pen name while in
Barcelona
1883
June 17 ,Rizal arrives in Paris
June 18, Rizal visits Leannec
Hospital
June 20, Rizal visits Lariboisiere
Hospital where Félix Pardo de
Tavera is an extern
1884
June 25 – Rizal delivers a
speech honoring Filipino
painters Juan Luna and Félix
Resurrección Hidalgo
1885
April 22 – Rizal writes the poem
“A Las Flores de Heildelberg”
(To The Flowers of Heidelberg)

November 4, Rizal’s sister

Soledad marries
1885 1887
April – Rizal submits his thesis
January 1 – In a letter, Paciano
“Arte Métrica del Tagalog” to
tells Rizal that it would be too
the Ethnographic Society of
dangerous for him to return
Berlin
immediately to the Philippines
June 16 - Rizal is informed by
Manuel Hidalgo about cholera
in Manila
1887 1884
On July 3 Rizal leaves from July 1 – Through the newspaper
Mersailles in Italy and arrives in El Progreso, Rizal asks for
Manila on August 5th. He freedom of the press and the
travels to nearby areas escorted Filipino right of representation
by a Spanish Lieutenant. in the Spanish Cortes

1887
January – Rizal becomes a
member of the Ethnographic
Society of Berlin
February – Rizal becomes a
member of the Anthropological
Society and the Geographic
Society of Berlin
1887 1885 1889
August 5 – Rizal arrives in
Manila December 15 – Rizal starts March 31 – Rizal’s “Me piden
August 30 – An order prohibiting teaching Viola the German versos” (They Ask Me For
the possession and reading of language Verses) is published in La
Noli Me Tangere is issued
Solidaridad under the pen name
September - Olimpia, Rizal’s
sister, dies of hemorrhage while Laong Laan
giving birth