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Sale of the Mesilla
It was purchased from Mexico by the United States in a treaty signed between the US president Franklin Pierce who signed it on June 24, 1853 and the Mexican dictator Santa Anna who signed it on December 30, 18531 and ratified by the Senate of the States. United on April 25, 1854. -
Plan of Ayutla
Its objective was to end the dictatorship of Antonio López de Santa Anna. -
Liberal governments begin.
Santa Anna is defeated and for life remains outside the political and military scene of Mexico: liberal governments begin. -
Law of Administration of Justice and Organic of the Courts of the Nation of the District and Territory. "Ley Juárez"
This law suppressed the special courts abolishing the customary rights of the military and religious. -
Ley Lerdo
By the substitute president Ignacio Comonfort.
Its objectives were to create a rural middle class that, similar to the United States, wanted to develop; clean up the public finances of the State and revive the economy. -
Political Constitution of the Mexican Republic (1857)
Established individual guarantees to Mexican citizens, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom to bear arms. -
Churches Law
This order was part of the first group of liberal laws that Ignacio Comonfort, who had replaced Juan Alvarez in the presidency of the Republic. -
The Reformation War begins
It was the armed conflict that confronted the two sides in which Mexican society was divided: liberals and conservatives. -
Plan of Tacubaya
It was a conservative pronouncement by Manuel Silíceo, José María Revilla, Mariano Navarro, the governor of the Federal District Juan José Baz and the Mexican conservative general Félix María Zuloaga. -
Treaty Mon-Almonte
By Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, Mexican conservative and Alejandro Mon, representative of Queen Isabel II of Spain, in Mexico; in which the relations between Mexico and Spain are restored. -
Treaty McLane- Ocampo
It was an agreement between the United States and the liberal government of Mexico, led by Benito Juárez, signed in the port of Veracruz in Mexico. -
Battle of Puebla
The battle of Puebla was fought in the city of Puebla, between the armies of the Mexican Republic, under the command of Ignacio Zaragoza, and the Second French Empire, during the Second French Intervention in Mexico, the result of which was an important victory for the Mexicans. -
Maximilian's shooting
After a summary trial before military courts, held at the Teatro Iturbide (after Teatro de la República) and having as defense lawyer Rafael Martínez de la Torre, being judged by a colonel and six captains, without right of appeal and based on a interrogation that for the most part the Emperor refused to answer, claiming that they were purely political issues, the Liberals sentenced him to death. -
Plan of Tuxtepec
It was a declaration that sought to dismiss the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. It was prepared by Porfirio Díaz. -
President Porfirio Díaz takes office
Before assuming the presidency he was an outstanding military man, who shone for his participation in the Second French Intervention in Mexico. He fought in the Battle of Puebla, the Siege of Puebla, the Battle of Miahuatlan and the Battle of the Carbonera. He took arms against the federal government, twice, the first against Benito Juárez with Plan de la Noria, and, later, against Lerdo de Tejada, elaborating the Tuxtepec Plan. After the triumph of the second plan, Díaz assumed the presidency. -
Federal elections of Mexico of 1880
The federal elections of Mexico of 1880 were carried out in two days, the primary elections and the secondary elections on July 12, 1880.
