DID YOU KNOW: Tejeros Convention

The rival Katipunan factions—Magdiwang and Magdalo—met on March 22, 1897 for the Tejeros Convention to set up a revolutionary government.  Elected were  Emilio Aguinaldo (president), Mariano Trias (vice president), Artemio Ricarte  (captain general), Emilio Riego de Dios (director of war) and Andres Bonifacio (director of the interior). —M. Medina, Inquirer Research