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1521
Fall of Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan was taken by Spanish forces. The tlatoani Cuauhtémoc was taken prisoner. -
1713
War of the Spanish Succession -
1724
Philip abdicated in favor of his son Louis I of Spain. -
1767
The Society of Jesus was expelled from New Spain. -
1776
The autonomous Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas was established under Teodoro de Croix in the northern provinces of New Spain. -
Mexican War of Independence
After Hidalgo orders Juan Antonio Riaño the surrender of Guanajuato, the insurgent troops led by José Mariano Abasolo and Ignacio Camargo take the city. -
1811
Miguel Hidalgo is executed by a firing squad and beheaded in Chihuahua. -
The Congress of Chilpancingo is inaugurated.
Morelos delivers the inaugural speech and Juan Nepomuceno Rosáins reads the Sentimientos de la Nación. -
Mexican War of Independence
The Spanish colonel Agustín de Iturbide and the insurgent leader Vicente Guerrero together issued the Plan of Iguala at a meeting in Iguala -
1846
The U.S. Congress declares war against Mexico. -
1848
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican–American War is signed in Mexico City -
1863
The Second Mexican Empire is declared, with the support of French Emperor Napoleon III, as well as the Austrian and Belgian crowns -
Mexican Revolution
Francisco I. Madero calls for armed rebellion against the government of President Porfirio Díaz. -
1960
President Adolfo López Mateos nationalized the electrical system. -
1982
President José López Portillo nationalizes the banking industry. -
Mexican general election
Carlos Salinas de Gortari of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was elected president in a rigged election, with an official 51% of the vote -
2003 Mexican legislative election
The PRI won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies. -
2006
Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the PRD led hundreds of thousands in a protest against the election results at Zócalo in Mexico City. -
Puebla earthquake
struck at 13:14 CDT on 19 September 2017 with a magnitude of Mw 7.1 and strong shaking for about 20 seconds. Its epicenter was about 55 km (34 mi) south of the city of Puebla -
2018
Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Together we will make history (a coalition of MORENA and the Labor Party) is elected 58th president with 53% of the vote.