Kalipulako biography
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Mariano Ponce was born in Baliuag, Bulacan, on March 22, , the eldest of the sju children of Mariano Ponce and Maria Collantes dem los Santos. He had his early schooling in his home town and finished his secondary education in the private school of Juan Evangelista, Hugo Ilagan and Escolastico Salandanan in Manila.
Afterwards, he enrolled at the college of San Juan de Letran where he obtained his Bachiller en
Artes in Then he transferred to the Sto Tomas University to study medicin. In , he left for europe and registered at the Central University of Madrid, where he finished his medical grad in
He joined Jose Rizal, Marcelo H. sektion Pilar, Lopez Jaena, and other patriots in the crusade for the needed Philippine reforms. He assisted Lopez Jaena in founding La Solaridad in Barcelona on February 12, He headed the Literary Section of the Asociacion Hispano-Filipina, a samhälle of frikostig Spaniards and Filipinos, founded to help the Propaganda Movement, of which
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Lapulapu
Datu of Mactan (fl. )
"Lapu-Lapu" redirects here. For the city named after him, see Lapu-Lapu City. For other uses, see Lapu-Lapu (disambiguation).
In this Philippine name&#;for indigenous people, this person is addressed by the sole name, Lapulapu.
Lapulapu[2][3][4] (fl. ) or Lapu-Lapu, whose name was first recorded as Çilapulapu,[5] was a datu (chief) of Mactan, an island now part of the Philippines. Lapulapu is known for the Battle of Mactan, where he and his men defeated Spanish forces led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his native allies Rajah Humabon and Datu Zula.[6][7] Magellan's death in battle ended his voyage of circumnavigation and delayed the Spanish occupation of the islands by over forty years[8] until the expedition of Miguel López de Legazpi which reached the archipelago in
Modern Philippine society regards him as the first Filipino hero because of his resist
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Today in Masonic History Mariano Ponce is born in
Mariano Ponce was a Filipino doctor and revolutionary.
Ponce was born in Buliwag, Bulacan on March 23, There he completed his primary education. He went on to Colegio de San Juan de Letran, a Roman Catholic learning institution founded in After Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Ponce enrolled in the University of Santo Tomas to study medicine. In he traveled to Spain to continue his studies at Unversidad Central de Madrid.
In while living in Spain, Ponce joined with Marcelo Del Pilar, Graciano López Jaena, José Rizal and other Propagandists in the anti-Spaniard movement. The goal of the Propagandists was to bring awareness to Spain of the need for reforms regrading representation for the Philippines in the Spanish Cortes and the Spanish colonial authorities of the Philippines.
With Graciano López Jaena, Ponce co-founded La Solidaridad which sought to bring awareness in Spain of t