Mexican Revolution

mexican revolution

Jul 2, 1876

Porfirio Díaz started his power in1876 to 1911. He was a mexican soldier and politician. He served 7 terms as president of Mexico. Díaz then gathered troops to fght the french.Leading to rule mexico for the next 35 years known as the porfiriato. He was a dictator, because of his rule the Mexican Revolution started. He then fled to Paris where he then died.

mexican revolution

Mar 2, 1910

The flawed 1910 elections were a major reason for the outbreak of the mexican revolution in 1910. Diaz was being threatened by the candidacy of madero. Zapata became an alliance with madero to change the country, they came together to get the land. He fought against diaz.

mexican revolution

Feb 22, 1911

Madero was a mexican satesman, writer, and revolutionary who served as the 33rd president of Mexico from 1911 until his assassination in 1913. He was an advocate for social justice and democracy.Madero was notable for having challenge Mexican Presisdent Porfrio Díaz for the presidency in 1910 and being instrumental in sparking the Mexican Revolution

Mexican revolution

Apr 3, 1912

Poncho villa attacks Huerta. In the second battle of Juarez. April and May 1911 between federal forces loyal to President Porfirio Díaz and rebel forces of Francisco Madero, during the Mexican Revolution. Pascual Orozco and Pancho Villa commanded Madero's army, which besieged Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. After two days of fighting the city's garrison surrendered and Orozco and Villa took control of the town.

mexican revolution

Jan 13, 1914

Huerta became a high-ranking officer under pro-democracy President Francisco Madero during the phase of the Mexican Revolution. In 1913, Huerta led a counter revolutionary coup, the Ten Tragic Days,in which madero was desposed and then assassinated. The Huerta regime was immediately oppposed by revolutionary forces, and Huerta was forced to resign and the flee the country in 1914 , after 17 months as president.

mexican revolution

Oct 1, 1914

The Convention of Aguascalientes was a major meeting that took place during the Mexican Revolution between the factions in the Mexican Revolution that had defeated Victorianos Huerta's Army and forced his resignation and exile in July 1914. The call for the convention was issued October 1 , 1914 by Venustiano Carranza.

mexican revolution

Mar 2, 1915

Carranza was one of the main leaders of the Mexican Revolution Constitutionalists Army, defeated the counter-revolutionary regime of Victoriano Huerta and then defeated fellow revolutionaris ater Huerta's ouster. He secured power in mexico, serving as head of a new revolutionary Mexican Constitution of 1917, he was elected president, serving 1917-1920.

mexican revolution

Apr 6, 1915

The Battle of Celaya was part of a series of military engagements in the Bajio during the civila war between the winners, who allied against the regime of Victoriano Huerta and then fought each other for the control of Mexico. The first battle of Celaya was fought april 6-7 1915, near Celaya in present- day Guanajuato, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. The second battle of Celaya was fought april 15-16.

mexican revolution

Mar 2, 1917

The current Constitution of 1917 is the first such document in the world to set out social rights,s serving as a model for the Weimar Constitution of 1919 and the Russian Constitution of 1918. Some of the most important provisions are Articles 3,27,and 123; these display profound changes in Mexican political philosophy that helped frame the political and social backdrop for Mexico in the 20th century. Article 3 established the bases for a free, mandatroy, and secular education.

mexican revolution

Jul 2, 1917

Carranza was one f the main leaders of the Mexican Revolution, whose victorious northern revolutionary Constitutionalists Army , defeated the counter- revolutionary regime of Victoriano Huerta and then defeated felow revolutionaries after Huertas ouster. He secured power in Mexico, serving as head of sate 1915-1917, With the promulgation of a new revolutionary Mexican Constitution of 1917, he was elected president, serving 1917-1820.

mexican revolution

Mar 2, 1918

Pancho Villa was a famed Mexican revolutionary and guerilla leader. He joined Francisco Madero's uprising against the Mexican Presisdent Porfrio Díaz in 1909, and later became leader of the División del Norte cavalry and governor of Chiuahua. After chasing with former revolutionary ally Venustiano Carranza. Villa killed more than 30 Americans in a pair of attacks in 1916. That drew the deployment of a U.S. military expedition into Mexico, but Villa eluded capture during the 11 month manhunt.

mexican revolution

Mar 2, 1919

The First Battle of Ciudad Juarez took place in April and May 1911 betweeen federal forces loyal too President Porfrio Díaz and rebel forces of Francisco Madero, during the Mexican Revolution. After two days of fighting the city's garrison surrendered and Orozco and Villa took control of the town.Villa is defeated at the battle of Juarez; Zapata is assassinated at Chinamecca.

mexican revolution

Mar 2, 1920

Obregon is elected president of Mexico. Obregon's presidency was the first stable presidency since the Revolution began in 1910. He oversaw massive educational reform, modereate land reform, and labor laws sponsored by the increasingly powerful Regional Confederation of Mexican Workrs. In August 1923, he signed the Bucarely Treaty that clarified the rights of the Mexiccan government and U.S. oil interests and bough U.S. diplomatic recognition to his government.

mexican revolution

Mar 2, 1931

The painting is dedicated to the hero Emiliano Zapata. One of eight portable frescoes Rivera produced expressly for his solo exhibition at moma in 1931. In a studio the museum provided him above its galleries, he worked around the clock for a month to produce paintings that unlike traditional frescoes, were intended to be transportable.

mexican revolution

Mar 2, 1935

The painting imparts simplicity , yet exudes much symbolism and meeting. The vibrant colors are rubbed into the masonite, a most common method for painting on hard surfaces. The colorful painting displays a peasent man in white clothinh with a yellow sombrero, struggling on all fours with a dramatically oversized basket of flowers that is stapped to his back with a yellow sling. With the use of shadows he makes the subject standout from the background of the painting.