Francisco Tongio Liongson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrancisco Tongio Liongson
Filipino medical doctor
Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1869
Place of Birth: Bacolor, Luzon, Philippines
Date of Death: 20-Feb-1919
Profession: politician
Nationality: Philippines
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Francisco Tongio Liongson
- Francisco Tongio Liongson (December 3, 1869 – February 20, 1919) belonged to a generation of Philippine colonial subjects who struggled to evolve a national identity for their homeland in the fringes of the Spanish Empire.
- Late in the 18th century, the concept of being a Filipino was still nebulous and infantile.
- The name did not even originally apply to all the inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago, but to a small group of Spaniards born there.
- Motivated by the injustices prevalent in the Philippines, small colonies of native expatriate students in Europe involved themselves in the Propaganda Movement with the purpose of exposing these abuses and in the process began to assume a consciousness articulating reforms of a national interest that was consequently distinct from Spain.
- Liongson was one of these Filipino students in Madrid.
- He walked among peers who would one day become Philippine National Heroes.
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