Rizal, on board Salvadora, left Manila for Singapore
May 3, 1882
Rizal arrived in Singapore
May 9, 1882
Rizal left Singapore on board the French steamer Djemnah
May 11, 1882
The Djemnah reached Colombo
May 17, 1882
Rizal reached the British colony Aden
May 27, 1882
Rizal reached the port city of Suez, the southern terminal of the Suez Canal
June 2, 1882
Rizal arrived at Port Said, the northern terminal of the Suez Canal
June 7, 1882
Rizal arrived at the Italian city Naples
June 11, 1882
Rizal reached and disembarked at Marseilles
June 12, 1882
Rizal left Marseilles on a train for Barcelona
June 15, 1882
Rizal reached Barcelona
June 16, 1882
It was also in Barcelona that he wrote the nationalistic essay Amor Patrio
Rizal arrived at Madrid
September 12, 1882
Rizal enrolled in Universidad Central de Madrid (taking Medicine and Philosophy and Letters)
November 3, 1882
Rizal declaimed his Me Piden Versos
December 31, 1882
Rizal joined the Madrid Masonic Lodge Acacia
March 1883
Rizal traveled to Paris
June 17, 1883
Rizal proposed to his compatriots the writing of a novel about the Philippines by Filipinos (the idea behind the Noli)
January 2, 1884
Rizal obtained his Licentiate in Medicine
June 21, 1884
Rizal raised his now famous toast to Luna and Hidalgo
June 25, 1884
Riots in the Universidad occurred
November 1884
Rizal obtained his Licentiate in Philosophy and Letters
June 19, 1885
He also passed all the subjects leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine but the degree was not awarded because he did not present his thesis and did not pay for the fees for presentation
Rizal was living in Paris and worked under the famed ophthalmologist Dr. Louis de Weckert
November 1885
Rizal left Paris for Germany
February 1, 1886
Rizal arrived at Heidelberg
February 3, 1886
Rizal wrote "A Las Flores de Heidelberg"
April 22, 1886
At Wilhelmsfeld, Rizal wrote the final chapters of the novel that he started writing in 1884 while he was in Madrid - the Noli
April-June 1886
Rizal started his correspondence with Blumentritt
July 31, 1886
Rizal arrived at Leipzig
August 14, 1886
Rizal left Leipzig for Dresden
October 29, 1886
Rizal left Dresden for Berlin
November 1, 1886
Noli was finally finished
February 21, 1887
Noli was published
March 21, 1887
Rizal, with Viola, left Berlin on a tour of Europe
May 11, 1887
Rizal arrived at Leitmeritz in the then Bohemia and met Blumentritt for the first time
May 13, 1887
Rizal left Leitmeritz
May 16, 1887
Rizal and Viola arrived at Vienna (after a stopover at Prague)