Morong was an administrative division of the
Philippines
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existing as a politico-military district created out of parts of the provinces of
Tondo and
Laguna on February 23, 1853 by a decree of the ''Superior Gobierno'', composing
Morong,
Pililla
Pililla (), officially the Municipality of Pililla ( tgl, Bayan ng Pililla), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 71,535 people. It is surrounded by farms, small m ...
,
Tanay,
Baras,
Binangonan
Binangonan, officially the Municipality of Binangonan ( tgl, Bayan ng Binangonan) is a 1st class municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 313,631 people.
A thriving fish port an ...
,
Jalajala
Jalajala (; also spelled as Jala-jala), officially the Municipality of Jalajala ( tgl, Bayan ng Jalajala), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 34,017 people.
...
,
Angono and
Cardona from Laguna; and
Antipolo
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, Boso-Boso,
Cainta
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It is one of the oldest municip ...
and
Taytay from
Tondo.
The offices were housed at a building now known as Comandancia. Its first military governor was Francisco Turrentigue.
Creation of the District
Three years after the issuance of Royal Decree of
Spain
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in 1844, provincial organizations were reclassified into provinces, districts, and politico-military units. At that time, the province of
Tondo had religious jurisdiction over Pueblo de Morong and
Laguna over all governmental, commercial, industrial and social affairs. In 1853, the district was created out of such provinces as the ''Distrito Politico-Militar de los Montes de San Mateo'' ().
In order to debunk the misconception that its capital was the town of
San Mateo in the province of Tondo, it was later renamed to ''Distrito de Morong'' in 1857,
after its capital town of
Morong, located at the shore of the
Laguna de Bay, with villages under the supervision of the
Franciscans
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.
Pueblos of ''Distrito de Morong''
The following is a list of the pueblos or towns comprising Distrito de Morong.
On February 11, 1879, the creation of the town of
Teresa
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was approved, merging the four former sitios of the town of Morong, namely, Santa Rosa, Prinza, Pantay and Buhangin.
Katipuneros in Morong
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Before the outbreak of the
Philippine Revolution, a branch of the
Katipunan
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was created in Morong, the capital of the district. Many leaders of the Katipunan were from Distrito de Morong. Among the first initiates of the Katipunan was Aurelio Tolentino who hailed from Morong. He and his brother Jacinto were
Andres Bonifacio
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's agents.
Teodoro Plata, one of original founding members, was a clerk in the Court of Justice of the Peace of Morong.
There were a number of attacks made by the Katipuneros and Spaniards who took their stand in the Commandancia and
Morong Church and convent. The last stronghold of Spain in Distrito de Morong happened when the Spaniards, holed out in the convent surrendered to the Katipuneros on August 19, 1898.
After the surrender of the Spaniards in Morong,
Antipolo
Antipolo, officially known as the City of Antipolo ( fil, Lungsod ng Antipolo), is a 1st class component city and capital of the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 887,399 people. It is the ...
became the capital of the revolutionary army, removing the title of Morong as capital of the district.
Distrito de Morong earned the distinction to be represented as one of the eight rays of the sun in the Filipino flag, symbolic of the eight provinces who held uprisings against the Spaniards in 1896 which were
Manila
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,
Bulacan
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,
Pampanga
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,
Nueva Ecija
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, Morong,
Laguna,
Batangas
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, and
Cavite
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.
Commander Hilarion Raymundo and the Morong Defenders
Major Hilarion Raymundo was the leader of the Morong defenders who fought the Americans during the
Philippine–American War. Under his leadership, the Americans were forced to retreat after killing and wounding many of them in February 1900. Many Morongueños were still fighting the Americans even after the surrender of Manila and capture of
Emilio Aguinaldo at
Palanan, Isabela
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on March 23, 1901. However, through Don
Juan Sumulong
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, General
Miguel Malvar
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advised the Morongueños to surrender to the American flag.
Creation of Rizal province
To hasten the establishment of the civil government in the Philippines, former
United States
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William McKinley
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sent the Second
Philippine Commission
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. It conducted public meetings with the people regarding the reorganization of the provinces. On June 5, 1901, 221 delegates from the Distrito de Morong and a portion of
Manila Province
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had an assembly at
Pasig Church. Judge
William Howard Taft
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stated that it was suggested to the Commission to unite Manila and Morong.
Hilarion Raymundo and Jose Tupas, two of the Morong delegates, argued against the fusion of Manila and Morong while Jose Oliveros and Juan Sumulong, delegates of Antipolo, were in favor of it.
After the deliberation,
Trinidad Pardo de Tavera
Trinidad Hermenegildo José María Juan Francisco Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho (13 April 1857 – 26 March 1925) was a Filipino physician, historian and politician of Spanish and Portuguese descent who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Phil ...
suggested that the merged provinces be named
Rizal "...in memory of the most illustrious Filipino and the most illustrious Tagalog the islands had ever known...", referring to
José Rizal.
References
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