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Spaniards Vanishment
The vanishment of Spanish residents is decreed in Mexico. -
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Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution ends the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship and leads to establishment of a constitutional republic -
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Constitutionalists in power
Carranza assassinated on 1920 during and internal feud among his former supporters over who would replace him as a president. -
Constitution
Economic and social conditions improve in accordance with revolutionary policies so that the new society took shape within a framework of official revolutionary institutions. -
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Cristero War
This war was a counter-revolution against the Calles regime. -
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky takes refuge in Mexico -
PNR
Called created a more permanent solution to presidential succession of the National Revolutionary Party -
Lázaro Cárdenas
President Lazaro Cardenas begins programme of oil nationalisation, land reform and industrial expansion. -
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Economic Miracle
Mexico experienced impressive economic growth, and achieved what historians call “El milagro mexicano” -
Academy Award
Actor Anthony Quinn was the first Mexican to win an Academy Award for his role in the film “Viva Zapata” -
Frida Kahlo dies
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Tlatelolco Masacree
Student demonstration in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, during the Olympic Games is fired upon by Mexican security forces. Hundreds of protesters are killed or wounded. The extent of the violence shocks the country -
Olympic Games
These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America and the first to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country. They were also the first Games to use an all-weather (smooth) track for track and field events instead of the traditional cinder track. -
Monarch butterfly
Discovery of the sanctuary of the monarch butterfly. -
Mexico’s earthquake
Earthquake in Mexico City kills thousands and makes many more homeless. -
Octavio Paz wins the Nobel Prize of Literature
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NAFTA
NAFTA is introduced an México starts using the peso. -
Chiapas Rebellion
A guerrilla rebellion in Chiapas by the Zapatista National Liberation Army is brutally suppressed by government troops. The rebels oppose Nafta and want greater recognition for Indian rights. The government recognises the Zapatista National Liberation Front (EZLN). -
Unrest in Chiapas
45 Indigenous people were killed by paramilitary gunmen in a Chiapas village. The incident causes an international outcry, President Zedillo starts an investigation -
Indigenous rights
April - Parliament passes a bill increasing the rights of indigenous people. A few days later, Subcomandante Marcos rejects the bill, saying it leaves the Indian population worse off than before. Marcos says the uprising in Chiapas will continue. -
Action against feminicide
A federal post of special prosecutor is created to tackle violent crime against women. Mexico had been criticised by the UN and rights groups over the unsolved murders of more than 300 women over 12 years in the border city of Ciudad Juarez -
The 43 missing
Authorities issue arrest warrants for 45 suspects - including a former mayor - in the case of 43 missing students kidnapped and thought killed in Guerrero. -
The Pope visits
Visiting Pope Francis urges a stadium packed with members of the clergy not to give up in the face of violence, drug trafficking and corruption. -
Mexico will not pay
Mexico says it will not pay for a wall to built along the Mexican-US border in its first direct response to US presidential candidate Donald Trump's electoral pledge. -
“El Chapo”
Drug lord Joaquin Guzman, known as El Chapo, is extradited to the US, prompting a sharp rise in violence as rivals compete for power in his Sinaloa Cartel. -
Agression againts Reporters
Six journalists were killed in Mexico this year, putting it just behind Iraq and Syria as the deadliest places in the world to work in the media. -
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NAFTA Renegotiations
The negotiation of this important treaty has been a custant issue in the last year and negotiation will continue all through the next year -
Earthquake in Mexico City
It was one of the most important earthquakes because it was the same day as the other and it show us that we are a strong natio
