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On May 29, 1963, Doña Maria Agoncillo, second wife of General Emilio Aguinaldo, passed away at the Veterans Memorial Hospital, Quezon City, at the age of 84. Nine years of the death of his first wife, Emilio Aguinaldo married Maria Agoncillo niece of Felipe Agoncillo on July 14, 1930 at Barasoain Church. She was born in Taal, Batangas, on ...
Marcela Agoncillo. Doña Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo (née Mariño y Coronel; June 24, 1859 – May 30, 1946) [1] [2] [3] was a Filipina who was the principal seamstress of the first and official flag of the Philippines, [4] gaining her the title of "The Mother of the Philippine Flag." Marcela Coronel Mariño was the daughter of Don Francisco ...
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Jun 11, 2021 · Marcela Agoncillo—who at the time of her singular act was already married to revolutionary stalwart Felipe Agoncillo—is recognized as “The Mother of the Philippine Flag” for being the principal seamstress in making the first banner representing the Philippine republic. It would serve as the inspiration for the flag that we know of and ...
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Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was the seventh of eight children born to a wealthy mestizo family in Cavite on March 22, 1869. His father Carlos Aguinaldo y Jamir was the town mayor, or gobernadorcillo, of Old Cavite. Emilio's mother was Trinidad Famy y Valero. As a boy, he went to elementary school and attended secondary school at the Colegio de San Juan...
In 1894, Andres Bonifacio himself inducted Aguinaldo into the Katipunan, a secret anti-colonial organization. The Katipunan called for the removal of Spain from the Philippines by armed force if necessary. In 1896 after the Spanish executed Jose Rizal, the voice of Filipino independence, the Katipunan started their revolution. Meanwhile, Aguinaldo ...
In the spring of 1898, events half a world away overtook Aguinaldo and the Filipino rebels. The United States naval vessel USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, Cuba, in February. Public outrage at Spain's supposed role in the incident, fanned by sensationalist journalism, provided the United States with a pretext to start the Spanish-Ameri...
Aguinaldo was officially inaugurated as the first president and dictator of the Philippine Republic in January 1899. Prime Minister Apolinario Mabini headed the new cabinet. However, the United States refused to recognize the new independent government. President William McKinleyclaimed that doing so would be at odds with the American goal of "Chri...
Aguinaldo and the victorious Filipino revolutionaries did not see themselves as the Americans did, as half-devil or half-child. Once they realized they had been tricked and were indeed "new-caught," the people of the Philippines reacted with outrage. On January 1, 1899, Aguinaldo responded to the American "Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation" by p...
Aguinaldo continued to be an outspoken advocate of independence for the Philippines. His organization, the Asociacion de los Veteranos de la Revolucion(Association of Revolutionary Veterans), worked to ensure that former rebel fighters had access to land and pensions. His first wife Hilaria died in 1921. Aguinaldo married for a second time in 1930 ...
Aguinaldo was appointed to the Council of State again in 1950, this time by President Elpidio Quirino. He served one term before returning to his work on behalf of veterans. In 1962, President Diosdado Macapagal asserted pride in Philippine independence from the United States by making a highly symbolic gesture; he moved the celebration of Independ...
On February 6, 1964, the 94-year-old first president of the Philippines passed away from coronary thrombosis. He left behind a complicated legacy. Aguinaldo fought long and hard for independence for the Philippines and worked tirelessly to secure veterans' rights. At the same time, he ordered the execution of his rivals—including Andres Bonifacio—a...
Although Aguinaldo is today often heralded as a symbol of the democratic and independent spirit of the Philippines, he was a self-proclaimed dictator during his short period of rule. Other members of the Chinese/Tagalog elite, such as Ferdinand Marcos, would later wield that power more successfully.
Kinzer, Stephen. "The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire." St. Martin's Griffin, 2018.Ooi, Keat Gin. "Southeast Asia a Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor." ABC-CLIO, 2007.Silbey, David. "A War of Frontier and Empire: the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902." Hill and Wang, 2007.May 23, 2018 · Maria Agoncillo-Aguinaldo was the niece of Don Felipe Agoncillo, one of the Philippines' first diplomats. She had many socio-civic endeavors -- among them the leadership of the Batangas Chapter of the Philippine Red Cross. Sources: Aluit, Alphonso J. "The conscience of the Nation: a history of the Red Cross in the Philippines, 1896-1962".
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Former President of the Philippines Emilio Aguinaldo (1859 - 1964) and his second wife Maria Agoncillo (1882 - 1963) at their wedding in Manila, Philippines, August 1930. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Agoncillo, one of the three women who sewed the very first Philippine flag (Agoncillo 1990, 201, 21 1; Tadena 1967, 20-21). He was also a distant rela-tive of Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the Philippines, who married Maria Agoncillo after his first wife died in 1921 (Ocampo 1995, 81). 5
