Location: Emilio Aguinaldo Shrine, Kawit, Cavite
Category: Personage
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 12 June 1998
Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)
Marker text:
EMILIO AGUINALDO Y FAMY
(1869–1964)
FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1899–1901, AND LEADER OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE IN THE REVOLUTION AGAINST SPANISH RULE, 1896–1898 AND THE FILIPINO–AMERICAN WAR, 1899–1901. BORN MARCH 22, 1869, KAWIT, CAVITE. BECAME MUNICIPAL CAPTAIN OF KAWIT. INDUCTED INTO MASONRY AND INITIATED INTO THE KATIPUNAN UNDER HIS CHOSEN NAME, MAGDALO, 1895. LED IN THE CAPTURE OF KAWIT, IMUS, BACOOR AND OTHER TOWNS IN CAVITE DURING THE OUTBREAK OF THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION IN 1896. HIS MILITARY VICTORIES PROVIDED PRESTIGE WHICH LED TO HIS ELECTION, IN ABSENTIA, AS PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT DURING THE TEJEROS CONVENTION ON MARCH 22, 1897. WENT TO SELF-EXILE IN HONGKONG IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PACT OF BIAK-NA-BATO AND FORGED AN ALLIANCE WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO OVERTHROW SPANISH RULE IN THE PHILIPPINES. RETURNED FROM HONGKONG, MAY 19, 1898 AND RESUMED THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM. PROCLAIMED PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE ON JUNE 12, 1898 AT KAWIT. ON THIS OCCASION THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL FLAG MADE IN HONGKONG BY DONA MARCELA DE AGONCILLO WAS OFFICIALLY UNFURLED AND THE MARCHA NACIONAL WHICH BECAME THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ANTHEM WAS PLAYED PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME. CONVENED THE REVOLUTIONARY CONGRESS IN MALOLOS, BULACAN, SEPTEMBER 15, 1898. LED THE FILIPINO FORCES DURING THE FILIPINO–AMERICAN WAR AND WAS CAPTURED IN PALANAN, ISABELA ON MARCH 23, 1901.
DIED AT THE VETERANS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, QUEZON CITY, FEBRUARY 6, 1964.
