Timeline Mexico

By vivigarzan
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    Mexican Revolution ends the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship and leads to establishment of a constitutional republic.

    Electoral

  • Mexican Revolution Ends

  • Álvaro Obregón is president

    Electoral

  • Plutarco Elías Calles is President

    Electoral

  • Emilio Portes Gil is President

    Electoral

  • The National Revolutionary Party is formed. In 1946 it is re-named the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.

    Parties

  • Pascual Ortiz Rubio is President

    Electoral

  • Abelardo L. Rodriguez is President

    Electoral

  • Mexican parliament ratifies the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) with the US and Canada.

    Economical

  • Lázaro Cárdenas is President

    Electoral

  • President Lazaro Cardenas begins programme of oil nationalisation, land reform and industrial expansion.

    Economical

  • PAN Partido Acción Nacional begins.

    Parties

  • Manuel Ávila Camacho is President

    Electoral

  • Miguel Alemán Valdez is President

    Electoral

  • Adolfo Ruiz Cortines is President

    Electoral

  • Adolfo López Mateo is President

    Electoral

  • Luis Echeverría is President

    Electoral

  • 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.

    Security

  • Huge offshore oil reserves discovered; the Cantarell field becomes the mainstay of Mexico's oil production.

    Economical

  • Partido Verde begins.

    Parties

  • Carlos Salinas de Gortari is President

    Electoral

  • PRD Partido de la Revolución Democrática begins.

    Parties

  • Ernesto Zedillo is President

    Electoral

  • The PRI suffers heavy losses in elections and loses its overall majority in the lower house of parliament for the first time since 1929.

    Parties

  • Vicente Fox is President

    Electoral

  • Felipe Calderón is President

    Electoral

  • A new federal police force is created to tackle drugs cartels

    Security

  • Drug-related killings soar. Murders linked to organised crime leap to almost 1,400 in first five months of year.

    Security

  • Economical Crisis

    Economical

  • Enrique Peña Nieto is President

    Electoral

  • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is President

    Electoral