Philippines - Historical Flags to 1899

Last modified: 2004-03-06 by rob raeside
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• Movement Katipunan flags
• Llanera's Skull flag
• 1895 flag with white triangle
• Bonifacio's banner
• Magdalo faction (1896)
• Katipunan flag of 1897
• General Gregorio del Pilar's flag

See also:

• Philippines - historical flags of 20th Century (modern style)
• Philippines
• Philippines: index of all pages

Movement Katipunan flags

by Jaume Ollé, 7 September 1996

by Jaume Ollé, 7 September 1996

by Thomas Koh, 14 October 1997

The first flag was that of movement Katipunan, created by Benita Rodriguez with the aid of the wife of Bonifacio, Gregoria de Jesus. The flag was a red rectangle red with three "K" white in a horizontal alignment. Some members of the movement used a variant of the flag in which one of the three "K"s was put above the other two forming a triangle. A third variant had a single K on it. (These flags could be construed as being related to the Klu Klux Klan, but they have nothing to do with it).
Jaume Ollé 7 September 1996

What is the significance of the K's?

You will recall that the Spanish colonised the Philippines for well over 400 years. Towards the close of the XIX century, nationalist groups were being formed to dri