MEXICO XIX CENTURY

By Mau723

  • Constitution of 1824

    Constitution of 1824
    The Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824, entered into force after the Mexican Empire of Iturbide. In the new Constitution, the Republic took the name of the United Mexican States, and was defined as a Federal Representative Republic, with Catholicism as the only official religion of Mexico

  • Separation of Texas

    Separation of Texas
    On March 2, 1836, Texas declared their independence from Mexico. The Texas Revolution ended on April 21, 1836, when Santa Anna was taken prisoner by Texians following the Battle of San Jacinto.

  • Pastry War

    Pastry War
    The First French intervention in Mexico, began in November 1838 with the naval blockade of some Mexican ports and the capture of the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in Veracruz by French forces sent by King Louis-Philippe.

  • Mexican-American War

    Mexican-American War
    The Mexican-American War, waged between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, helped to fulfill America's manifest destiny to expand its territory across the entire North American continent.

  • Reforma Laws

    Reforma Laws
    The Reforma laws were a set of anticlerical laws enacted in Mexico between 1855 and 1863, during the governments of Juan Alvarez, Ignacio Comonfort and Benito Juárez that were intended to limit the privileges of the Roman Catholic Church and the military.

  • Constitution 1857

    Constitution 1857
    It was ratified during the presidency of Comonfort , establishing individual rights such as freedom of speech; freedom of conscience; freedom of the press; It also reaffirmed the abolition of slavery, eliminated debtor prison, and eliminated all forms of cruel and unusual punishment, including the death penalty.

  • Second French interevention

    Second French interevention
    In an alliance Napoleon organised in 1861, troops from Britain, Spain and France landed at Veracruz in Mexico to demand payment of the government’s debts. French reinforcements arrived and launched a civil war, which is thought in the end to have cost some 50,000 lives. They drove Juarez and his people out of Mexico City in 1863 and further victories followed.

  • Maximilian of Habsburg in Mexico

    Maximilian of Habsburg in Mexico
    Maximilian acceded to the imperial throne of Mexico on June 12th, 1864. Seeking to legitimize French rule, Napoleon III invited Maximilian to establish a new French Mexican monarchy. With the support of the French army and a group of Conservative Party monarchists hostile to the Liberal Party administration of the new Mexican president, Benito Juárez, Maximilian was offered the position of Emperor of Mexico.