It was founded by José Rizal in the house of Doroteo Ongjunco at Ilaya Street, Tondo, Manila on July 3, 1892.

[4] The purpose of La Liga Filipina was to build a new group that sought to involve the people directly in the reform movement.

[5] The league was to be a sort of mutual aid and self-help society dispensing scholarship funds and legal aid, loaning capital and setting up cooperatives, the league became a threat to Spanish authorities that they arrested Rizal on July 6, 1892, then he was sent to Dapitan.

[6] During the exile of Rizal, the organization became inactive,[7] though through the efforts of Domingo Franco and Andrés Bonifacio,[8] it was reorganized.

[9] Liga membership split into two groups when it was about to be revealed: the conservatives formed the Cuerpo de Compromisarios which pledged to continue supporting the La Solidaridad while the radicals led by Bonifacio devoted themselves to a new and secret society, the Katipunan.