Location: Rizal Park, Anthony Drive, Rosemeadow, Menangle, City of Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
Category: Personages
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: October 26, 2012
Installed by: National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)
Marker text:
JOSE RIZAL
(1861–1896)
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL HERO. BORN ON 19 JUNE 1861. DOCTOR, POET, WRITER, EDUCATOR, LINGUIST, INVENTOR.
AUTHORED NOVELS NOLI ME TANGERE (1887) AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO (1891) WHICH BARED COLONIAL OPPRESSION OF THE FILIPINOS. HE ADVOCATED NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM BUT WAS CHARGED WITH INCITING DISSENT.
THE LIVING SOUL OF THE 1896 PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION, HE WAS EXECUTED ON 30 DECEMBER 1896.
HIS MARTYRDOM INSPIRED A SENSE OF NATIONHOOD THAT EVENTUALLY LED TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE IN 1898.
