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Rizal History...
With the organization of Tondo and La Laguna during the Spanish regime, Rizal province was composed of 26 towns. Some of the towns, including Pasig, Paranaque, Taytay, and Cainta, were already thriving because long before the Spanish conquest the Tagalog settlements had already carried on trade with Chinese merchants.
From 1582 to 1583, the town of Moron (Morong) was under the jurisdiction of La Laguna and Pasi (Pasig), Taitai (Taytay), Tagui (Taguig) belonged to Tondo. In 1591, the encomiendas of Moron and Taitai were under the jurisdiction of the Franciscan order in La Laguna, Paranaque, Longalo (Dongalo), Taguig, and Pasig.
A new political subdivision was formed in 1853, consisting of the towns of Antipolo, Boso-boso, Cainta, and Taytay from Tondo and the towns of Morong, Baras, Tanay, Pililla, Angono, Binangonan, and Jalajala from La Laguna. Then in 1860, Tondo became the province of Manila, placing its towns under the fiscal supervision and land control of the governor of the new province.
It was during the revolutionary government of General Emilio Aguinaldo when Mariquina (Marikina) became the capital of Manila. In 1898-1899, Antipolo became the capital of Morong, then in 1899-1900, Tanay became its capital.
In June 1901, the first Philippine Commission, headed by President William Taft and Commissioner Wright Ide, with Dr. Trinidad Pardo de Tavera, proposed the unification of Manila and Morong, which resulted in the creation of a new province named after Jose P. Rizal, the Philippine National Hero.
Rizal province was officially created by virtue of Act No. 310 by the Philippine Commission. It was composed of 26 municipalities, 13 from the old province of Manila comprising Las Pinas, Malabon, Makati, Paranaque, Mandaluyong, San Juan, Navotas, Muntinlupa, Taguig, Pateros, Marikina, San Mateo, and Rodriguez (formerly Montalban). The other 12 municipalities were from the district of Morong, which includes Angono, Baras, Cainta, Antipolo, Cardona Jalajala, Morong, Pililla, Tanay, Taytay, and Teresa.
On November 8, 1975, the newly formed Metro Manila area was created by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 824, which resulted in the incorporation of the 12 towns of Las Pinas, Paranaque, Muntinlupa, Taguig, Pateros, Makati, Mandaluyong, San Juan, Malabon, Navotas, Pasig, and Marikina. The remaining 14 towns were left to the province of Rizal - San Mateo, Rodriguez, Baras, Cainta, Taytay, Angono, Antipolo, Binangonan, Teresa, Morong, Cardona, Tanay, Pililla, and Jalajala.
When the Metro Manila Commission incorporated Pasig, the former capital, Rizal became the only province in the Philippines to have no capital town. But there is a proposal to make Antipolo the new capital of the province. At present, Antipolo is the only city in the province of Rizal.
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