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Early months of 1810
During the early months of 1810, an economic slowdown and famine occured particularly in the Bajío, the viceroyalty's leading mining center in Queretaro. A number of disgruntled criollos, hoped to to wrest power from the peninsulars because they wanted more rights and better jobs, but the Spainards did not want to give them that. -
Sept 13, 1810 Initiation
Queretaros Corregidor's wife Doña Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez
alerted the Criollos about the Gachupines independence plan movement by Criollo officers who had refused to join the revolutionary movement, and by a priest who had learned of the plot through a confessional. Hidalgo was among the central figures targeted for arrest on September 13, 1810 and Allende immediately departed from Quertaro to inform Hidalgo. -
Sept 16, 1810
Miguel Hidalgo, a Mexican priest, declared independence from Spain. All of the anger had built up and created a war known as Grito de Dolores. This was the battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence. Miguel Hilago y Costilla expressed this action. -
September 28, 1810
The rebel army won their first victory by capturing and wining over the tripps loay to the king. Many of the Spaniards and Criollos were massacred or even exiled. A murder was now involved with the hope of having independence. -
October 30, 1810
The Battle of Monte de las Cruces was one of the pivotal battles of the early Mexican War of Independence. This battle was fought between the insurgent troops of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and Ignacio Allendeagainst the royalist troops of General Torcuato Trujillo in the Sierra de las Cruces mountains between Mexico City and Toluca. -
January 1811-
January 1811- The Spanish fought and defeated the ingurgent army in the battle of the Bridge of Calderon. Which forces the rebels to run twords the Mexican border in hope of escape. While on there way there Hidalgo and his soldiers crossed roads with the Spanish army. Hidalgo and his men were captured. This is part of the sypmtomatic stage because Hidalgo and his men have been captured by the Spainards and are left with no hope. -
June 26 1811- Consolidation
Ignacio Allende was taken to the city of Chihuahua where he was tried for insubordination and executed. His body was decapitated and his head taken to the Alhóndiga de Granaditas in Guanajuato where it was shown to the public inside a cage hung from one corner of the building -
July 31 1811-
July 31 1811- After Higalgo and his men were captured by the Spainards Hidalgo was executed. Hidalgo's body was mutilated and his head was displayed in Guanajuato as a warning to the Mexican rebels. This is the crisis stage, now that Hidalgo has been executed. Jose Maria Morelos became leader of the rebellion after Hidalgo's death, many military victories over the South, he called the first congress of free states resulting to Mexico’s declaration of Independence. -
November 1815
Morelos continued to be unable to obtain criollo backing for the struggle and he had to rely on mestizo support. He lost his position of leadership to his rivals in the movement, however, and in November 1815, while defending the escape of the insurgent government from loyalist attack, he was captured and executed. After the death of Jose Maria Moreles, insurgetmnt tipps disspered by the Vicerroyship. Ejercito de las Tres Garantías -
February 24, 1821
A proposal for a blueprint for independence called the Plan de Iguala was offered by Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero . The plan offered three guarantees— preservation of the Catholic Church's status, the independence of Mexico as a constitutional monarchy, and equality of Spaniards and criollos. Although viceregal authorities tried to resist, the plan met with widespread approval both in civilian and military quarters, it was set to pass. -
August 24, 1821- Resistance
The Treaty of Córdoba established Mexican independence from Spain at the conclusion of the Mexican War of Independence. It was signed on August 24, 1821 in Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico. -
September 16 1821- Consummation
Mexico gains independence on September 16, 1821. Influenced by the revolutions in the United States and France, they too decided they wanted freedom of speech, a representative government, and a restriction of the over bearing power of the Catholic Church. They determined that the only way to reform their society would be to gain independence from theSpanishwhom they felt had oppressed them for over 300 year
