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War of the Spanish Succession
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Philip abdicated in favor of his son Louis I of Spain.
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Louis died of smallpox.
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The Society of Jesus was expelled from New Spain.
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The autonomous Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas was established under Teodoro de Croix in the northern provinces of New Spain.
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Grito de Dolores
The Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla encouraged his congregation to revolt against the Spanish crown in a speech made at Dolores. -
Mexican War of Independence
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Battle of Monte de las Cruces
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Miguel Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende arrive in Zacatecas.
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From Guadalajara, José de la Cruz offers Miguel Hidalgo pardon, according to the amnesty decreed by the Cortes.
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Near Saltillo, Ignacio Allende and Miguel Hidalgo reject the pardon.
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The insurgent caudillos Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, José Mariano Jiménez, José Mariano Abasolo and Ignacio Aldama are captured
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In Chihuahua, Ignacio Allende, Ignacio Aldama and José Mariano Jiménez are executed by a firing squad and decapitated.
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From Zitácuaro, Ignacio López Rayón proposes to José María Morelos the formation of a governmental board.
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Miguel Hidalgo is executed by a firing squad and beheaded in Chihuahua.
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The Congress of Chilpancingo is inaugurated. Morelos delivers the inaugural speech and Juan Nepomuceno Rosáins reads the Sentimientos de la Nación
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the inquisition
The Inquisition declares Morelos a heretic and sentences him to life imprisonment in Africa if he is not sentenced to the death penalty. The ecclesiastical degradation of Morelos is carried out in the chapel of the Holy Office. -
execution of jose maria morelos y pavon