Rizal lived in London from May 1888 to March 1889. He chose the English City to be his new home for 3 reasons:

1. To improve my knowledge of the English Language. ENGLISH Rizal chose the English City to be his new home.

2. To study and annotate Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos de Las Islas Filipinas. 

3. London was safe place for him to carry on his fight against Spanish tyranny.

The greatest achievement of Rizal on London was the annotating of Morga’s book, Sucessos de Las Isla Filipinas which was published in Mexico, 1609. British Museum Rizal spent many days in the reading room of the British Museum poring over the pages of this book and laboriously reading the old histories of the Philippines.