THE
CAVITE
MUTINY
The Cavite Mutiny (1872)
• A remarkable event happened during
19th century in the Philippines
SPANISH
ACCOUNTS ON
THE CAVITE
MUTINY
JOSE MONTERO Y VIDAL
A Spanish historian
documented the event and
highlighted it as an attempt
of Indio's to overthrow the
Spanish Government in the
Philippines
Gov. Gen. Rafael Izquierdo
Made us of this to implicate
the native clergy, which was
then active in the call of
secularization.
• Izquierido and Montero scored out that the main
reason of the revolution are the abolition of
privileges of the workers in Cavite.
• Izquierido reported to the king of Spain that the
‘rebels’ wanted to overthrow the Spanish
government to install a new “hari” in the likes of
Father Burgos and Zamora.
On February 17, 1872
The GOMBURZA were
executed to instill fear
among the Filipinos so that
they may never commit
such daring act again.
DIFFERING
ACCOUNTS OF
THE EVENTS
OF 1872
Two other primary
accounts exist that seem
to counter the accounts of
Izquierdo and Montero.
First, the account of Dr.
Trinidad Hermenegildo
Pardo de Tavera, a Filipino
scholar and researcher,
who wrote a Filipino
version of the bloody
incident in Cavite.
Primary Source: Excerpts
from Pardo de Tavera’s
Account of the Cavite Mutiny

This uprising among the soldiers in Cavite was used as
a powerful level by the Spanish residents and by the
friars.
 The Central Government in Madrid had announced its
intention to deprive the friars in these islands of powers
of intervention in matters of civil government and of
the directions and management of the university.
Up to that time there had been no intention of
secession from Spain and the only aspiration of the
people was to secure the materials and education
advancement of the country
 According to this account, the incident was merely
a mutiny by Filipino soldiers and laborers of the
cavite arsenal to the dissatisfaction arising.
CRY OF
REBELLION
Case Study 4: Where Did the Cry of Rebellion Happen?
“El Grito de
rebellion”
• Happened in August 1896, northeast of
Manila, where they declared rebellion against
the Spanish colonial government.
• TEODORO AGONCILLO emphasizes the event when Bonifacio tore the
cedula (tax receipt) before the Katipuneros who also did the same.
Emilio Aguinaldo commissioned an “Himno de Balintawak” to inspire the
renewed struggle after the Pact of the Biak-na-Bato failed.
Different Dates and places of the cry:
• A guardia civil, Lt. Olegario Diaz, identified the Cry to have happened in Balintawak
on 25 August 1896.
• Teodoro Kalaw marks the place to be in Kangkong, Balintawak, on the last week of
August 1896.
• Santiago Alvarez, a Katipunero and son of Mariano Alvarez, leader of the
Magdiwang faction in Cavite, put the cry in Bahay Toro in Quezon City on 24 August
1896.
• Pio Valenzuela, known Katipunero and privy to many events stated that the Cry
happened in Pugad Lawin on 23 August 1986.
• Historian Gregorio Zaide identified the Cry to have happened in Balintawak
on 26 August 1896.
• Milagros Guererro, Emmanuel Encarnacion and Ramon Villegas claimed that
the event took place in Tandang Sora’s barn in Gulod, Barangay Banlay,
Quezon City, on 24 August 1896.