55 Facts About Emilio Aguinaldo

Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was born on March 22,1869 in Cavite el Viejo in the province of Cavite to Carlos Aguinaldo y Jamir and Trinidad Famy y Villanueva, a couple that had eight children, the seventh of whom was Emilio Sr.

The Aguinaldo family was quite well-to-do, as his father, Carlos Aguinaldo, was the community's appointed gobernadorcillo in the Spanish colonial administration and his grandparents Eugenio Aguinaldo y Kajigas and Maria Jamir y de los Santos.

Emilio Aguinaldo studied at Colegio de San Juan de Letran, but could not finish his studies because of an outbreak of cholera in 1882.

Emilio Aguinaldo became the "Cabeza de Barangay" in 1895 when the Maura Law called for the reorganization of local governments was enacted.

At the age of 25, Emilio Aguinaldo became Cavite el Viejo's first gobernadorcillo capitan municipal while he was on a business trip in Mindoro.

On January 1,1895, Emilio Aguinaldo became a Freemason, joining Pilar Lodge No 203, Imus, Cavite by the codename "Colon".

On March 7,1895, Santiago Alvarez, whose father was a Capitan Municipal of Noveleta, encouraged Emilio Aguinaldo to join the "Katipunan", a secret organization led by Andres Bonifacio that was dedicated to the expulsion of the Spanish and the independence of the Philippines through armed force.

Emilio Aguinaldo joined the organization and used the nom de guerre Magdalo in honor of Mary Magdalene.

Emilio Aguinaldo, used flags similar to those used by the Magdiwang faction and featuring a white sun with a red baybayin symbol for Ka.

On February 13,1897, Emilio Aguinaldo ordered soldiers to plant dynamite along the bridge and to place pointed bamboo sticks in the river beds below the bridge.

Cavite Province gradually emerged as the Revolution's hotbed, and the Emilio Aguinaldo-led Katipuneros had a string of victories there.

Emilio Aguinaldo decided to deploy his forces at Pasong Santol, a bottleneck of Perez Dasmarinas on the way to Imus, which rendered the Spanish immobile and served the revolutionaries by its natural defensive positions.

Colonel Vicente Riego de Dios was sent by the assembly to fetch Emilio Aguinaldo, who was in Pasong Santol.

Emilio Aguinaldo refused to come and Crispulo Emilio Aguinaldo, his older brother, was sent to talk to him.

Crispulo greeted and talked to his brother and explained his purpose, but Emilio Aguinaldo was hesitant to leave his post because of the pending attack of the Spanish in Dasmarinas.

Emilio Aguinaldo was elected president, even though he was occupied with military matters in Imus and not in attendance.

On June 24,1897, Emilio Aguinaldo arrived at Biak-na-Bato, San Miguel, Bulacan, and established a headquarters there in what is called "Emilio Aguinaldo Cave" in Biak-na-Bato National Park.

In late October 1897, Emilio Aguinaldo convened an assembly of generals at Biak-na-Bato that decided to establish a constitutional republic.

In exile, Emilio Aguinaldo reorganized his revolutionary government into the "Hong Kong Junta" and enlarged it into the "Supreme Council of the Nation".

Emilio Aguinaldo promptly resumed the command of revolutionary forces and besieged Manila.

On May 28,1898, Emilio Aguinaldo gathered a force of about 18,000 troops and fought against a small garrison of Spanish troops in Alapan, Imus, Cavite.

Emilio Aguinaldo wrote in Tarlac during the First Republic the Tagalog manuscript of his autobiographical work, which would later be translated by Felipe Buencamino into Spanish and released as Resena Veridica de la Revolucion Filipina.

Superior American technology drove Filipino troops away from the city, and Emilio Aguinaldo's government had to move from one place to another as the military situation escalated.

At the Battle of Marilao River, Emilio Aguinaldo himself led his forces to prevent American crossings.

On November 13,1899, Emilio Aguinaldo disbanded the regular Filipino army and decreed that guerrilla warfare would now be the strategy.

Emilio Aguinaldo led the resistance against the Americans but retreated to Northern Luzon.

On March 23,1901, with the aid of Macabebe Scouts forces led by General Frederick Funston, Emilio Aguinaldo was captured in his headquarters in Palanan, Isabela.

Bonifacio refused to recognize the revolutionary government headed by Emilio Aguinaldo and reasserted his authority.

Emilio Aguinaldo accused the Magdalo faction of treason and issued orders contravening orders issued by the Aguinaldo faction.

Emilio Aguinaldo ordered the arrest and the execution of Bonifacio on some allegations implicating Bonifacio's involvement in some events at Indang.

The facts that led to Bonifacio's execution remain questionable, Emilio Aguinaldo had originally opted to have the Bonifacio brothers exiled, rather than executed, but Pio del Pilar and Mariano Noriel, both former supporters of Bonifacio, persuaded Emilio Aguinaldo to withdraw the order for the sake of preserving unity.

One asked for help in launching a counterattack in San Fernando, Pampanga, and the other, sent by Emilio Aguinaldo himself, ordered him to go to the new capital at Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, to form a new cabinet.

General Luna was told that Emilio Aguinaldo had left for San Isidro in Nueva Ecija.

Emilio Aguinaldo staggered out into the plaza where Roman and Rusca were rushing to his aid, but as he lay dying, they too were set upon and shot, with Roman being killed and Rusca being severely wounded.

Emilio Aguinaldo would be firm in his stand that he had nothing to do with the assassination of Luna.

Emilio Aguinaldo organized the Asociacion de los Veteranos de la Revolucion to secure pensions for its members and made arrangements for them to buy land by installments from the government.

In Cavite, the only province he had won, Emilio Aguinaldo's supporters plotted a rally in Manila to disrupt Quezon's inauguration and even assassinate him.

Emilio Aguinaldo continued to criticize Quezon throughout the latter's presidency, expressing anti-semitic views when opposing Quezon's plan to shelter Jews fleeing from the Holocaust.

In 1939, Emilio Aguinaldo vigorously expressed his antisemitism by echoing bigoted notions that Jewish people were "dangerous" and "selfishly materialistic".

In January 1942, Emilio Aguinaldo met with General Masami Maeda at the former's Cavite residence to discuss the creation of a pro-Japanese provisional government.

Emilio Aguinaldo was appointed as a member of both the provisional Council of State as well as the Preparatory Committee for Philippine Independence, which was tasked with creating a new constitution for a Japanese puppet state in the Philippines.

Emilio Aguinaldo played a key role in the Kenpeitai's campaign to suppress anti-Japanese resistance, urging guerilla fighters to lay down their arms and surrender to Japan.

Emilio Aguinaldo was present at the inauguration ceremony of the Second Philippine Republic on October 14,1943, raising the flag with Artemio Ricarte, who had returned to the Philippines from Japan at the request of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.

Nonetheless, Emilio Aguinaldo was appointed as head of the National Distribution Corporation, placing him in charge of rationing prime commodities for the Japanese war effort.

Emilio Aguinaldo was then placed under house arrest as the US Army's Counterintelligence Corps investigated his collaboration with the Japanese.

On January 28,1948, Philippine president Manuel Roxas granted amnesty to all Filipinos who had collaborated with the Empire of Japan, and as a result Emilio Aguinaldo's charges were dropped and his trial was never held.

Emilio Aguinaldo was made an honorary Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by the University of the Philippines in 1953.

Nine years later, on July 14,1930, Emilio Aguinaldo married Maria Agoncillo at Barasoain Church.

Emilio Aguinaldo died on May 29,1963, a year before Aguinaldo himself.

One of his great-grandsons, Joseph Emilio Abaya, was a member of the Philippine House of Representatives and represented Cavite's first district, which contained their hometown, Kawit, from 2004 to 2012, when he was appointed as Secretary of Transportation and Communications in 2012, a post he that served until 2016, and another great-grandson, Emilio "Orange" M Aguinaldo IV, married the ABS-CBN news reporter Bernadette Sembrano in 2007.

Emilio Aguinaldo became a long-time member, but reverted to Roman Catholicism in later life.

Emilio Aguinaldo was a lifelong friend of mine and his death saddens me.

Emilio Aguinaldo was rushed to Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City on October 5,1962, under the care of Juana Blanco Fernandez, MD, where he stayed for 469 days until he died of coronary thrombosis on February 6,1964, one month before his 95th birthday.

Emilio Aguinaldo was portrayed in various films that featured or centered on the Revolution.

Emilio Aguinaldo was portrayed by the following actors in these films:.