The Katipunan, led by Andrés Bonifacio, was a secessionist movement and shadow government spread throughout much of the islands whose goal was independence from Spain through armed revolt.

On 3 May, Bonifacio held a general assembly of Katipunan leaders in Pasig where they debated when to start their revolt.

Eluding an intensive manhunt, Bonifacio called thousands of Katipunan members to a mass gathering in Caloocan, where they decided to start their revolt.

The Katipunan, led by Andrés Bonifacio, was a secessionist movement and shadow government spread throughout much of the islands whose goal was independence from Spain through armed revolt.

When the premature discovery of the Katipunan in Manila forced Andres Bonifacio to take to the field of Balintawak and raise the flag of revolt, Cailles organized a force of the fathers of his own pupils.

In 1956, he published his seminal work, Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan, a history of the 1896 Katipunan-led revolt against Spanish rule and its leader, Andres Bonifacio.

The Supreme Council of the Katipunan declared a nationwide armed revolution against Spain and called for a simultaneous coordinated attack on the capital Manila on 29 August.

While Bonifacio's troops laid siege to the hall, other Katipunan forces set up defensive lines along the nearby Langka ( or Nangka ) river against Spanish reinforcements from Marikina.

Aguinaldo's own adviser and official Apolinario Mabini writes that he was " primarily answerable for insubordination against the head of the Katipunan of which he was a member ".

In fact, one of the founding members of the reform movement La Liga Filipina was lawyer and Novo Ecijano Mamerto Natividad By the time the Katipunan, the revolutionary movement against Spain was formed, Novo Ecijanos were actively yet secretly joining it.

At the height of the Katipunan resistance against the Americans, Francisco Bernal was the capitan municipál.

Yet, with the collapse of the Revolutionary government in Tarlac on November 10, 1899 against the American invaders, the desperado Aguinaldo exhorted for the resurrection of the Katipunan in the localities that had continued the fight for independence ; mainly through sporadic and remnant guerilla units.

The first and foremost agenda was on the reorganization of Katipunan in the town, following the instructions of the Commanding General of Central Luzon ( the limping body organized by Aguinaldo to supervise what was left of the revolutionary army ) as read by Kapatid Restituto Javier, with the nom-de-guerre Mapangahas, to “ promptly obtain the independence of our beloved country .” Other matters agreed upon were the formation of a special police body against traitors to “ the holy cause which we defend ” and for the provision of an efficient mailing system to be abreast with the system of communication.

The camp is named after Andres Bonifacio, the revolutionary leader of Katipunan during the Philippine revolutionary period against Spain.

* 1892 – Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.

In 1894, Aguinaldo joined the Katipunan or the K. K. K., a secret organization led by Andrés Bonifacio, dedicated to the expulsion of the Spanish and independence of the Philippines through armed force.

The Philippine Revolution began in August 1896, upon the discovery of the anti-colonial secret organization Katipunan by the Spanish authorities.

Rizal's Spanish biographer Wenceslao Retana and Filipino biographer Juan Raymundo Lumawag saw the formation of the Katipunan as Del Pilar's victory over Rizal: " La Liga dies, and the Katipunan rises in its place.

Captured Katipunan members ( also known as Katipuneros ), who were also members of La Liga, revealed to the Spanish colonial authorities that there was a difference of opinion among members of La Liga.

In 1895, José Turiano Santiago, a close personal friend of Bonifacio, was expelled because a coded message of the Katipunan fell into the hands of a Spanish priest teaching at the University of Santo Tomas.

" He was a founder and later Supremo (" supreme leader ") of the Katipunan movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution.

The rapid increase of Katipunan activity drew the suspicion of the Spanish authorities.

The Spanish authorities confirmed the existence of the Katipunan on 19 August 1896.

This flag was first unveiled on August 23, 1896 during the Cry of Pugadlawin where the assembled Katipunan members tore their cedulas ( community tax certificates ) in defiance of Spanish authority.

The Philippine Revolution began in August 1896, upon the discovery of the anti-colonial secret organization Katipunan by the Spanish authorities.

On August 19, 1896, Katipunan was discovered by a Spanish friar, which started the Philippine Revolution.

Sensing the secret plan of the Katipunan to overthrow the government, the Spanish authorities raided a Binondo printing press where subversive documents were found and confiscated.

Historian Ambeth Ocampo gives the opinion that arguing for Bonifacio as the " better " hero on the grounds that he, not Rizal, began the Philippine Revolution, is moot since Rizal inspired Bonifacio, the Katipunan and the Revolution.

The Katipunan had its own publication, Kalayaan ( Liberty ) that had its first and last print on March 1896.

This last allegation was made despite the fact that Supremo was meant to be used in conjunction with Presidente, i. e. Presidente Supremo ( Supreme President ) to distinguish the president of the Katipunan Supreme Council from council presidents of subordinate Katipunan chapters like the Magdalo and Magdiwang.

The first Supreme Council of the Katipunan was formed around August 1892, a month after the founding of the society.

A member of the Katipunan, Gerónimo was part of the group that assaulted the San Juan del Monte gunpowder magazine on August 30, 1896, and organized forces under his command in Montalban, San Mateo, and Marikina.

Nevertheless, after the existence of the Katipunan was leaked in August 1896, the Luna brothers were arrested and jailed in Fort Santiago for " participating " in the revolution.

Initially, the Katipunan was a secret organization until its discovery in 1896 that led to the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution.

At the outbreak of the 1896 revolution, the Council was further reorganized into a ' cabinet ' which the Katipunan regarded as a genuine revolutionary government, de-facto and de-jure.

From September to October 1896, Bonifacio supervised the establishment of Katipunan mountain and hill bases like Balara in Marikina, Pantayanin in Antipolo, Ugong in Pasig and Tungko in Bulacan.

This view is based on his position of President / Supremo of the Katipunan revolutionary government from 1896 – 97.

# Tagalog was the language of the 1896 Revolution and the Katipunan.

An original member of the Katipunan movement, he fought alongside Andrés Bonifacio throughout the Philippine Revolution of 1896.

On December 28, 1896, he participated in an attack in Kakarong de Sili-Pandi, Bulacan on a town inimical to the Katipunan.

At the trial of José Rizal in 1896, it was suggested that Paterno, along with Rizal, had incited the Katipunan because they had both written about the ancient Tagalog civilization.