| Year | Date | Event | Image | | 1810 | 16 September | 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. |
| 28 September | Mexican War of Independence: After Hidalgo orders Juan Antonio Riaño the surrender of Guanajuato, the insurgent troops led by José Mariano Abasolo and Ignacio Camargo take the city. |
| 30 October | Battle of Monte de las Cruces: Insurgent forces under Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende defeated Spanish troops at Ocoyoacac. |
| 1811 | 10 February - Miguel Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende arrive in Zacatecas.
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28 February - From Guadalajara, José de la Cruz offers Miguel Hidalgo pardon, according to the amnesty decreed by the Cortes.
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1 March - Near Saltillo, Ignacio Allende and Miguel Hidalgo reject the pardon.
- In San Antonio Béjar, José Manuel Zambrano recovers the city and Texas for the royalists.
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10 March - Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Aldama, José Mariano Abasolo, and Ignacio Allende arrive in Saltillo.
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21 March - The insurgent caudillos Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, José Mariano Jiménez, José Mariano Abasolo and Ignacio Aldama are captured by Ignacio Elizondo at the Wells of Baján and taken prisoner to Monclova and Chihuahua. The son of Ignacio Allende dies at the site of the capture.
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26 June - In Chihuahua, Ignacio Allende, Ignacio Aldama and José Mariano Jiménez are executed by a firing squad and decapitated. José Mariano Abasolo is sentenced to life imprisonment.
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11 July - From Zitácuaro, Ignacio López Rayón proposes to José María Morelos the formation of a governmental board.
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30 July - Miguel Hidalgo is executed by a firing squad and beheaded in Chihuahua.
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| 1813 | 14 September - 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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| 1815 | 27 November - 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.
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22 December - José María Morelos is executed by a firing squad in San Cristóbal de Ecatepec.
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| 1816 | 30 January - Pope Pius VII publishes the encyclical Esti Longissimo Terrarum, where he exhorts obedience and peace from the rebels in Spanish America, favoring Ferdinand VII.
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| 1821 | 21 February | Mexican War of Independence: The Spanish colonel Agustín de Iturbide and the insurgent leader Vicente Guerrero together issued the Plan of Iguala at a meeting in Iguala, under which Mexico was to become an independent, Catholic constitutional monarchy. |
| 24 February | Mexican War of Independence: The armies under Iturbide and Guerrero were consolidated into Iturbide's control in the Army of the Three Guarantees. |
| 24 August | Mexican War of Independence: Iturbide and Spanish viceroy Juan O'Donojú signed the Treaty of Córdoba, recognizing the independence of Mexico in personal union with Spain. |
| 1836 | 10 February - General Santa Anna, commanding the battalions of Matamoros, Jiménez, San Luis, the regiment of Dolores and eight pieces of artillery, occupies San Antonio Béjar The settlers retreat to the fort of El Álamo.
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6 March - After 12 days of siege, the army Mexican undertakes the assault on El Álamo. The Texan defenders are annihilated in combat. The Texas separatists forge the phrase "Remember the Alamo".
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26 March - General Urrea abides by Santa Anna's order of executing the prisoners of Goliad under the charge of treason.
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7 April - Santa Anna arrives in San Felipe Austin and finds the city abandoned and burned by the Texans. He finds out that Samuel Houston, the rebel leader, is located 10 leagues on the left bank of the Brazos River.
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21 April - Santa Anna's troops, stationed in a hill near the San Jacinto River receive the reinforcement of Perfecto of Cos. The enemy takes refuge in the forest and Santa Anna decides to offer rest to his troops. To his misfortune, Houston's men ambush him. The confrontation lasts for hours until the Mexican ranks disperse.
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22 April - Santa Anna, who had fled in the fray of the previous day, is captured by Texan forces.
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| 1838 | 26 October - The remains of Agustín de Iturbide are transferred to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City in a sumptuous procession.
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27 October - In the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City, the funeral honors and the burial of the remains of Agustín de Iturbide take place.
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| 1847 | 22/23 February - The Battle of Buena Vista takes place. The Mexican army is superior in number, but it found poorly armed and exhausted by the march and severity of the weather; For its part, the US military is smaller, but is better organized and has more artillery. The result is indecisive.
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23 February - During the night, Santa Anna orders the withdrawal of his troops from the battlefield for his focus on the hacienda of Agua Nueva.
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27 February - The Mexican army under Santa Anna undertakes a forced march to San Luis Potosí, arriving on March 12.
- In Mexico City, the Rebellion of the Polkos breaks out against the sale of ecclesiastical property, the opposition to the government of Gómez Farías, and the intention to take Santa Anna to the Presidency.
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27 September - The Mexican government moves to Toluca. President Peña calls on the governors and deputies to meet in Querétaro.
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13 October - In the city of Querétaro, the executive power is established under General Peña y Peña.
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| Year | Date | Event | | 1917 | 5 February | Mexican Revolution: The current constitution of Mexico was approved by a constituent assembly in Querétaro. |
| 1920 | 3 January | An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 hits Puebla and Veracruz, leaving 648-4,000 dead. |
| 1938 | 18 March | Mexican oil expropriation: President Lázaro Cárdenas expropriates the oil industry. |
| 1960 | 21 September | President Adolfo López Mateos nationalized the electrical system. |
| 1968 | 2 October | Tlatelolco massacre: The government fired on a crowd of student protesters in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City, killing between thirty and three hundred. |
| 1973 | 28 August | An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 hits Puebla and Veracruz, leaving 539-1,000 dead. |
| 1982 | 1 September | President José López Portillo nationalizes the banking industry. |
| 1985 | 19 September | 1985 Mexico City earthquake: An earthquake centered off the Pacific coast of Michoacán caused ten thousand deaths and between three and four billion US$ in damage in Mexico City. |
| 1988 | 6 July | Mexican general election, 1988: Carlos Salinas de Gortari of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was elected president in a rigged election, with an official 51% of the vote. The PRI maintained its majority in the Chamber of Deputies. |
| 1989 | 5 May | Constituent parties of the National Democratic Front (FDN) established the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) under the leadership of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. |
| 1993 | 23 March | Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated during his campaign to become the Mexican president in a rally in Tijuana. |