Philippine History

• Doctrina Cristiana - first book written in the Philippines
• Pedro Bukaneg - Father of Ilocano Literature
• Francisco Baltazar - Father of Tagalog Poetry
• Severino Reyes - Lola Basyang is the pen name
• Kenkoy (Liwayway Magasin, 1929) - first and longest running komiks series in the Philippines
• Juan Crisostomo Soto - Father of Pampango Literature who wrote There is no God
• Manila Bulletin - oldest existing newspaper in the Philippines since 1900
• Alejandro Abadilla - Father of Modern Tagalog Poetry
• Ang Dapat Mabatid ng mga Tagalog - work of Bonifacio which tells the history of the Philippines
• Jose Rizal - wrote the popular fable The Monkey and the Turtle
• The Decalogue - known as Andres Bonifacio's Ten Commandments of the Katipunan
• Paciano Rizal - Rizal's model for Pilosopong Tasyo
• To My Fellow Children - line whoever knows not how to love his native tongue is worse than any beast or even smelly fish
• Dimasalang, Laong-Laan - Rizal's pen name
• Taga-ilog - Juan Luna's pen name
• Alibata/Baybayin - first Filipino Alphabet
• 15 letters - first Filipino alphabet consisted
• Memoria Fotografica - Jose Ma. Panganiban
• Amado Hernandez - known as the poet of the workers or laborers
• Bukanegan - Ilocano Balagtasan