Editing Emilio Aguinaldo (section)

==Early life and career==
Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was born on March 22, 1869{{efn|1=The exact date of Aguinaldo's birthdate was March 22, 1869. It can be seen in National Historical Institute's marker in Aguinaldo Shrine, Kawit, Cavite.<ref name="nhibio" /><ref name="dyalp6" /><ref name="ooikg1-129" /><ref name="death" /> Some sources give other dates.<ref name="5dvIb" /><ref name="turoth1" />|group=lower-alpha|name=birthdate-note}} in Cavite el Viejo (present-day [[Kawit]]) in the province of [[Cavite]] to Carlos Aguinaldo y Jamir and [[Trinidad Aguinaldo|Trinidad Famy y Villanueva]],{{efn|name="name"}} a couple that had eight children, the seventh of whom was Emilio. He was baptized and raised in [[Roman Catholicism]].<ref name="religion">{{Cite news |title=Filipinos mourning death of Aguinaldo |work=The New York Times |date=February 7, 1964 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/07/archives/filipinos-mourning-death-of-aguinaldo.html |access-date=November 8, 2022}}</ref> The Aguinaldo family was quite well-to-do as his father, Carlos Aguinaldo, was the community's appointed ''[[gobernadorcillo]]'' (municipal governor) in the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] [[Viceregal]] administration.<ref>{{harvnb|Sullivan|2022|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=26SYEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Carlos+Aguinaldo%22&pg=PA96 96]}}</ref> He studied at [[Colegio de San Juan de Letran]], but could not finish his studies due to an outbreak of [[cholera]] in 1882.

He became a [[Cabeza de Barangay|cabeza de barangay]] in 1895 when the [[Maura Law]] called for the reorganization of local governments. At the age of 25, Aguinaldo became Cavite el Viejo's first ''[[gobernadorcillo#Capitan municipal|gobernadorcillo capitan municipal]]'' (municipal governor-captain) while he was on a business trip in [[Mindoro]].