ACT OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE

• Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista


  Wrote the Act on the Declaration of Independence
• Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista was born on Dec. 17, 1830 in Binan, Laguna
• Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista's parents were Gregorio Enriquez Bautista (father) and Silvestra Altamira (mother)
• Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista studied Law at the University of Sto. Tomas and earned his degree in 1865 (at age 35)
• Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista became a member of the La Liga Filipina, Cuerpo de Compromisarios and La Propaganda
• Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista died on Dec. 4, 1903 at the age of 72 due to a fatal fall from a horse-drawn carriage
• Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista became the first adviser to President Emilio Aguinaldo in 1898
• Contrary to common belief, it was Bautista, and not Aguinaldo, who waved the Philippine Flag before the jubilant crowd
• On July 14, 1899, Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista was elected to the position of the president in the Revolutionary Congress in Tarlac
• Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista was later appointed judge of the Court of First Instance of Pangasinan
• Spanish-American War


  Outbreak in April 1898, result of U.S. intervention in Cuban War of Independence, led to U.S. involvement in the Philippine Revolution
• Commodore George Dewey aboard the U.S.S. Olympia sailed from Hong Kong to Manila Bay and led the Asiatic Squadron of the U.S. Navy
• The Battle of Manila Bay occurred on May 1, 1898
• Emilio Aguinaldo decided to return to the Philippines and helped Americans defeat the Spaniards
• The Spaniards were defeated
• Emilio Aguinaldo arrived in Cavite and unofficially allied with the USA
• The Act on the Declaration of Independence was written to encourage and motivate more Filipino people to fight against the Spaniards
• Series of events that led to the Declaration of Act of Independence

  • Loss of Independence and Sovereignty
  • Inequality between the Spanish and Filipinos
  • Establishment of Biak-Na-Bato to gain Independence and Sovereignty
• Reasons for the Act of Independence

  • Abuses and unjust execution of Rizal for opposing the friars Machiavellian ends
  • Religious corporation abuses such as execution of GOMBURZA
  • Oppressions
• Filipino revolutionary forces were under General Emilio Aguinaldo
• How the revolutionaries regarded Aguinaldo

  As the supreme head of the nation and the instrument chosen by god
• How the Filipinos regarded the United States

  Under the protection of the Powerful and Humanitarian Nation, the United States of America
• The first Philippine flag was sewn by Dona Marcela Agoncillo, Lorenza Agoncillo, and Delfina Herbosa de Natividad in Hong Kong
• The first Philippine flag was first flown in battle on May 28, 1898
• The music of the Philippine national anthem was composed by Julian Felipe
• The lyrics of the Philippine national anthem were from Jose Palma's poem Filipinas in 1898, and the final Filipino lyrics were revised in the 1960s
• The Declaration of Philippine Independence was on June 12, 1898