1896 - Filipino patriot, reformist, and polymath Jose P. Rizal appears before Spanish colonial officer Col. Francisco Olive to answer the charges of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy pressed against him; Olive was the same colonial officer who led a company of soldiers in ejecting Rizal's family and other tenants of Calamba five years earlier; Rizal was arrested in October 1896 as he was aboard the Isla de Panay en route to Cuba, another Spanish colony where he volunteered to minister to yellow fever victims in the bid to disassociate himself from the Philippine Revolution that broke out prematurely in August of the same year; earlier in October 29, when the boat he was made to board for return to the Philippines, the S.S. Colon, arrived at Singapore, the writ of Habeas Corpus he was the object of was turned down owing to the fact that his detention was ordered by the Spanish government and that his boat carried the Spanish flag.
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