10 Facts About Macario Sakay

Macario Sakay de Leon was born on March 1,1878, along Tabora Street, Tondo, in the City of Manila.

Macario Sakay first worked as an apprentice in a kalesa manufacturing shop.

Macario Sakay was a tailor and a stage actor, performing in a number of plays including Principe Baldovino, Doce Pares de Francia, and Amante de la Corona.

Macario Sakay was one of the founders of the Partido Nacionalista, which sought to achieve Philippine independence through legal means.

Macario Sakay said this included all the islands of the Philippines from Luzon to Mindanao.

Around 1902, Macario Sakay established the Tagalog Republic somewhere in the mountains of Rizal.

Macario Sakay agreed to end his resistance on the condition that a general amnesty be granted to his men, that they be permitted to carry firearms, and that he and his officers be permitted to leave the country.

Macario Sakay believed that the struggle had shifted to constitutional means, and that the establishment of the assembly was a means to win independence.

Macario Sakay was convicted and sentenced to death, and hanged on September 13,1907.

Macario Sakay was buried at Manila North Cemetery later that day.