timeline mexico

  • Jan 25, 1553

    Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico

    Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico
    The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico was a university of the viceroyalty of New Spain created by royal decree of Emperor Carlos V, signed in his name by Prince Felipe, in the city of Toro (Zamora) on September 21, 1551 and inaugurated on January 25, 1553.
  • promulgation of the federal constitution of the united mexican states

    promulgation of the federal constitution of the united mexican states
    The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824 came into force on October 4 of that year, after the Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide.
  • Reform that incorporated the Reform Laws to the Constitution

    Reform that incorporated the Reform Laws to the Constitution
    The history of these documents dates back to when Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada incorporated the Reform Laws into the Constitution of 1857, on September 25, 1873, and promulgated the Additions and Reforms Law by which he definitively established secularism throughout the country.
  • Reform for the restoration of the Senate

    Reform for the restoration of the Senate
    It is reestablished to achieve internal balance in the Legislature and to strengthen the figure of the president. The chamber will be made up of two senators for each state and the Federal District and will be renewed in half every two years. The senators appointed second, will cease at the end of the first biennium, and thereafter the oldest
  • Start of the Maderista revolution

    Start of the Maderista revolution
    Maderism was the first of the movements that made up the Mexican Revolution. It was led by Francisco I. Madero between 1909 and 1910. Its main objective was to achieve the democratic regeneration of the country through effective suffrage and the non-reelection of public officials.
  • Porfirio Díaz resigns

    Porfirio Díaz resigns
    Five days after the treaties were signed, on May 25, Díaz resigned as agreed, later he went to Veracruz, from where he embarked on his exile in France.
  • The government of Francisco I. Madero begins

    The government of Francisco I. Madero begins
    Madero was elected President of Mexico, a position he held since November 6, 1911. A little over a year later, in 1913, he was betrayed and assassinated along with Vice President José María Pino Suárez, as a result of a coup (the called Decena Tragica) directed by Victoriano Huerta.
  • resignation and murder of madero and pino suárez in 1913

    resignation and murder of madero and pino suárez in 1913
    The assassination of Francisco I. Madero and José María Pino Suárez, the president and vice president of Mexico, took place on February 22, 1913 at the Palacio de Lecumberri in Mexico City. ... Madero and Pino Suárez were forced to sign their resignations, without knowing of Gustavo's death.
  • Government of Victoriano Huerta

    Victoriano Huerta (1854–1916) became President on February 19, 1913. ... The two agreed to recognize Victoriano Huerta as interim president, but Díaz would run for president with Huerta's support in 1914.
  • Signing of the Plan of Guadalupe • Venustiano Carranza head of the Constitutionalist Army • Demands the restoration of Constitutional order

    Signing of the Plan of Guadalupe • Venustiano Carranza head of the Constitutionalist Army • Demands the restoration of Constitutional order
    The Plan of Guadalupe was a document that sought to eliminate any claim to legitimacy that the Victoriano Huerta government may have had and announced the call for elections once peace had been reestablished.
  • Renuncia de Victoriano Huerta

    Renuncia de Victoriano Huerta
    After the coup that allowed General Victoriano Huerta to rise to the Presidency of the Republic, and with the death of Francisco I. Madero, on March 26, 1913 Venustiano Carranza proclaimed the Plan of Guadalupe and began organizing his troops. to confront the federal Army and overthrow Huerta, with the commitment that once his Army entered Mexico City, it would call elections.
  • Treaties of Teoloyucán • Carranza remains in charge of the Executive Branch in accordance with the Plan of Guadalupe

    Treaties of Teoloyucán • Carranza remains in charge of the Executive Branch in accordance with the Plan of Guadalupe
    The Treaties of Teoloyucan1 were the documents signed in the town of the same name, in the State of Mexico on August 13, 1914 between the representatives of the Northeast Army Corps, Álvaro Obregón, Lucio Blanco who was part of the revolutionary armies that they faced the federal government of Victoriano Huerta.
  • Constitutionalist government in Mexico City • Carranza assumes the provisional presidency of the Republic

    Constitutionalist government in Mexico City • Carranza assumes the provisional presidency of the Republic
    Venustiano Carranza Garza (Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, December 29, 18593 -Tlaxcalantongo, Puebla, May 21, 1920) was a Mexican politician, military [citation needed] and businessman who participated in the second stage of the Mexican Revolution as First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army, 5 after the assassination of Francisco Ignacio Madero, 6 overthrowing the government of General Victoriano Huerta.
  • Additions to the Plan of Guadalupe • Carranza announces a program of reforms "that guarantee the true application of the Constitution of the Republic"

    Additions to the Plan of Guadalupe • Carranza announces a program of reforms "that guarantee the true application of the Constitution of the Republic"
    Additions to the Plan of Guadalupe • Carranza announces a program of reforms "that guarantee the true application of the Constitution of the Republic"
  • Carranza decrees the establishment of the capital of the Republic in Querétaro

    Carranza decrees the establishment of the capital of the Republic in Querétaro
    Venustiano Carranza, in his capacity as First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army, by decree of February 2, 1916, declared the city of Queretaro the provincial capital of the Republic and seat of the Executive Power of the Union and of the Secretariats of State.
  • Review of the Guadalupe Plan

    Review of the Guadalupe Plan
    Review of the Guadalupe Plan; advances the need for reforms to the Constitution of 1857 • Announces the call for elections for a Constituent Congress
  • Call for the Constituent Congress

    Call for the Constituent Congress
    The First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army, Venustiano Carranza, in compliance with the Plan of Guadalupe, issued the call to elect the deputies to the Constituent Congress who would draft the new Magna Carta.
  • Election day for constituent deputies

    Election day for constituent deputies
    On Sunday, October 22, 1916, elections were held for constituent deputies who would meet in the city of Querétaro on November 20. National newspapers reported on the 23rd that, with the exception of some districts of Chihuahua and Morelos, in the power of Villista and Zapatista forces, and Quintana Roo, polling stations were installed throughout the country.
  • Inauguration of the Constituent sessions

    Inauguration of the Constituent sessions
    To achieve this objective, a Constituent Congress was convened in the city of Querétaro, which held its sessions between the months of December 1916 and January 1917, to finally promulgate a new Magna Carta for the Mexican Nation, on February 5, 1917
  • End of project discussion

    The Constituent Congress of Mexico in 1917 was the elected body to draft a new constitution for Mexico, it was in office from December 1, 1916 to January 31, 1917, and its headquarters was the Gran Teatro Iturbide (Today Theater of the Republic) from the city of Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro.
  • Promulgation of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States that reforms that of February 5, 1857

    Promulgation of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States that reforms that of February 5, 1857
    The Political Constitution of the Mexican Republic of 1857 was a constitution of liberal ideology written by the author of the Constituent Congress of 1857 during the presidency of Ignacio Comonfort. She was sworn in on February 5, 1857.
  • Let's light up Mexico

    Let's light up Mexico
    On August 30, hundreds of thousands of people in
    all the Republic join in the march
    "Illuminate Mexico" against insecurity and
    impunity that exists throughout the country.