GENERAL EDUCATION NOTES (SOCIAL SCIENCE)

NARCISO CLAVERIA y Zaldua

- Former Governor-General of the Philippines
- New Calendar, Surnames

Carmelo Garcia de Polavieja

- Former Governor-General of the Philippines
- Executed Rizal

Carlos Maria de la Torre

- Former Governor-General of the Philippines
- Spanish politician and soldier
- Most beloved Spanish Governors-General assigned to the Philippines

Jose Basco y Vargas

- Former Governor-General of the Philippines
- Tobacco Monopoly

Eulogio Despujol y Dusay

- Former Governor-General of the Philippines
- He issued a decree on July 7,1892 banishing Dr. Jose Rizal to
Dapitan,Zamboanga

Gregorio del Pilar y Sempio

- Filipino General of the Philippine Revolutionary Army during the Philippine-
American War
- Hero of Tirad Pass

Januario Galut
- Tingguian Igorot who led the 33rd Infantry Regiment of United States Volunteers
under Major Peyton March so that they could surround and defeat 60 Filipinos led
by General Gregorio del Pilar in the Battle of Tirad Pass
- Traitor of Tirad Pass
Daniel Tirona
- Filipino Politician
- Became infamous for causing divisions within the Philippine revolutionary
movement and for insulting and maligning Andres Bonifacio during the Tejeros
Convention in 1897

Francisco Dagohoy
- Filipino revolutionary
- Initiated the longest revolt in Philippine history (from 1744-1829 (85 years) - took
place on the island of Bohol)

Pedro Pelaez y Sebastian

- Filipino Catholic priest
- Favored the rights for Filipino clergy during the 19th century
- Secularization

Felipe Agoncillo y Encarnacion

- Former Secretary of the Interior and Local Government of Philippines
- Filipino lawyer representative to the negotiations in Paris that led to the Treaty
of Paris, ending the Spanish-American War and achieving him the title of
“OUTSTANDING FIRST FILIPINO DIPLOMAT”

Jose Palma
- Filipino poet and soldier
- Wrote “Filipinas”, a patriotic poem in Spanish that was published for the first time
in the issue of the first anniversary of La independencia on September 3,1899

Julian Felipe
- Filipino composer
- Composed the music of the Philippine national anthem, formerly known as
“Marcha Nacional Filipina” now known as “Lupang Hinirang”
Enrique of Malacca

- Indonesia member of the Magellan expedition that completed the first circumnavigation of
the world in 1519-1522
- served as a translator and guide of the Magellan expedition

Antonio Pigafetta

- Venetian Scholar and Explorer

- Joined the expedition to the Spice Islands led by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan under the
flag of the emperor Charles V and after Magellan’s death in the Philippine Islands, the
subsequent voyage around the world