When was Philippine Independence Day first proclaimed?
June 12, 1898
The Philippine Independence Day held every June 12 is the celebration of the country’s
Declaration of Independence from ______.
Spanish rule
The Declaration of Independence from the Spanish rule was proclaimed on June 12, 1898
in the house of ____________________.
Emilio Aguinaldo
It was only until on May 12, 1962 when President Diosdado Macapagal issued Presidential
Proclamation No. 28, which declared June 12 a special public holiday.
The original title of the national anthem was Marcha Filipina Mágdalo (“Mágdalo
Philippine March”).
Where is Emilio Aguinaldo's ancestral house (now the Aguinaldo Shrine) located?
Kawit, Cavite
The Philippine flag was sewn by Marcela Marino de Agoncillo, Lorenza Agoncillo, and
Delfina Herbosa de Natividad in __________.
Hong Kong
What time of the day was the Philippine independence declared in 12 June 1898?
Afternoon
The Marcha Nacional Filipina was only an instrumental march.
The cession of the Philippines under the Treaty of Paris of 1898 involved a compensation
of $ ________ from the United States to Spain.
20 million
President Aguinaldo proclaimed Philippine independence from Spanish rule on June 12, 1898.
It was at Emilio Aguinaldo's ancestral house (now the Aguinaldo Shrine) in Kawit where he, in
the presence of a huge crowd, declared the country's independence from Spain.
Marcela Agoncillo, her daughter Lorenza, and Dr. Jose Rizal's niece Delfina Herbosa hand-
sewed the Philippine flag in Hong Kong.
The Philippine flag was unfurled for the first time on May 28, 1898, after the victory of Gen.
Aguinaldo's troops in the Battle of Alapan in Cavite. It was formally presented to the Filipino
people on June 12, 1898, during the Independence day rites. Currently, Flag Days in the
Philippines are observed from May 28 to June 12 by virtue of Executive Order No. 179, signed
by President Fidel Ramos in 1994.
The flag was unfurled from the front window of Aguinaldo's house. The balcony - where the flag
is raised every June 12 to commemorate the declaration of independence - was added to the
house 2 decades later, between 1919 and 1921.
The Declaration, was prepared and written by Bautista in Spanish. He patterned after the
American Declaration of Independence.
The "Act of the Declaration of Independence" was signed by 97 Filipinos, appointed by
Aguinaldo, and one retired American officer, Mr. L.M. Johnson, a colonel of artillery.
President Aguinaldo proclaimed Philippine independence between 4 and 5 in the afternoon.
It was originally entitled Marcha Filipina Magdalo - after the name of Aguinaldo's faction in the
Katipunan in Cavite - before it was changed to Marcha Nacional Filipina. It was then adopted as
the Philippine national anthem. San Francisco de Malabon marching band
The Marcha Nacional Filipina was only an instrumental march. In 1899, the poem Filipinas
(written in Spanish) by Jose Palma was adopted as the lyrics of the national anthem. It was then
translated into English during the American occupation. Filipino translations of the lyrics first
appeared in the 1940s. Finally, in 1956, the current version of the national anthem, Lupang
Hinirang, was sung for the first time.
Rather than declaring an early independence, Apolinario Mabini believed that it was more
important to "reorganize the government... to convince the foreign powers of the competence
and stability of the new government." opposed the plan to declare the country's independence
on June 12, 1898
On July 4, 1946, the United States formally granted the Philippines its independence after World
War II. Every year thereafter, July 4 had been recognized as the country's Independence Day,
with June 12 celebrated as Flag Day. But in 1962, President Diosdado Macapagal
issued Proclamation No. 28, declaring June 12, 1962 as a special public holiday to celebrate
Philippine Independence Day. Republic Act 4166, signed by Macapagal in August 1964,
formally moved the celebration of Independence Day to June 12.
