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Diaz becomes President
Using a coup de etat the Diaz regime begins from 1876 till 1910. As a cudillo, Diaz rule was harsh and arbitrary. Diaz brings in foreign control of mexicos economy to stablize it. Policies such as bread or club force people to support him. -
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Diaz Regime
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Pearson's Magazine Interview
17th Feb, 1908 Pearson's Magazine Interview Díaz stated that Mexico was ready for democracy and elections and that he would retire and allow other candidates to compete for the presidency. -
Plan of San Luis Potosi
A political document written by a group of exiles lead by Franciso Madero in San Antonio, Texas and published in the mexican city of San Luis Potosi in 1910. The document ushered in the Mexican Revoultion, the collapse of the presidency of Porfiro Diaz, and the reinstitution of democray. -
Treaty of Ciudad Juarez
A peace treaty signed between the then president of Mexico, Profiro Diaz and the revolutionaryFranciso Madero on May 21,1911. The treaty put a end to the fighting between forces supporting Madero and those of Diaz and conculded the inital phase of the mexican revolution, -
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Francisco León de la Barra
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Francisco I. Madero
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Plan of Ayala
A document drafted by revoultionay leader Emiliano Zapata during the Mexican Revolution. Zapata demounced President Franciso Madero for his perceived betrayal of the revoultionay's ideals,embodied in Madero's plan de san luis, and set out his vision of land reform. -
Villa/Huerta defeat Orozco
Pascual Orozco Led a Revoultion against Madero.Villa and Victoriaro Huerta defeated Orozco.Huerta became the head of the army and Madero became totally dependent upon the amry for his survival. -
La decenda Tragica
Ten tragic days- was a series of events that took place in Mexico City, between Feb 9-13 1913 during the Mexican Revolutio. They culminated in a coup d' etat and the assassination of President Madero and VIce President Jose Maria Pino Suarez. -
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Victoriano Huerta
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Plan of Guadalupe
Drafted by Venustiano Carranza in response to the overthrow and execution of Madero. The document accused Huerta of restoring a dictatorship and committing treason by executing the constitutonal leader of Mexico during the ten tragic days -
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Venustiano Carranza
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Villa attacts the U.S
Villa turned against the United States. In January 1916, he kidnapped 18 Americans from a Mexican train and slaughtered them. A few weeks later, on this day in 1916, Villa led an army of about 1,500 guerillas across the border to stage a brutal raid against the small American town of Columbus, New Mexico. Villa and his men killed 19 people and left the town in flames.Now determined to destroy the rebel he had once supported, Pershing to lead 6,000 American troops. -
Constitution of 1917
President Carranza in 1916 convoked a constituent congress in Queretaro Mexicao to revise and update the constituiton of 1857. Economic and social demands had become common solgans as revoultionary bands bided for popular support. One of the first documents to set out social rights. -
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Obregons Regime
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Villas amnesty
What finally immobilized Villa was a July 28, 1920 agreement that he signed with provisional president Adolfo de la Huerta. The two were friends and Villa agreed to accept amnesty and become a private citizen in return for a 25,000 acre ranch in Canutillo, Durango, just across the border from Parral, Chihuahua. The package also included a pension and the right to keep a 50-man escort drawn from his elite force of dorados ('golden ones). -
Burcareli Accords
1923 election coming up, he didn't want the United States backing one of his rivals. So he negotiated the so-called Bucareli Accords, stipulating that Article 27 of the 1917 Constitution would not be applied retroactively to foreign oil holdings. (The article declared that all land, water and minerals were subject to the federal government and that the subsoil belonged to the nation.) -
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Plutarco Elías Calles
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PRI Created
In 1928 Calles had created the National Revolutionary Party (PNR), which still exists today as the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The world's most durable political entity, its nominee has become president in every election right up to the present. In the 1934 election the PNR nominee was General Lázaro Cárdenas, who had served as governor of Michoacán and minister of war. -
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Emilio Portes Gil
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Bloody Rebellion
May. Bloody rebellion by National University Students in Mexico City over the new policy of giving written exams instead of oral exams. The battle between police and students brought an intellectual element into the revolutionary years. Soon the rampaging students turned their attention to President Calles, and began calling for his removal with the university becoming a focal point of unrest. -
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Pascual Ortiz Rubio
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Abelardo L. Rodríguez
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Lázaro Cárdenas del Río
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Carranza's Expropriation
Cárdenas will chiefly be remembered for his expropriation of the foreign oil companies. The action was brought on by their refusal to abide by a Mexican supreme court ruling that would have granted workers a modest pay increase. The decision came in the wake of a cabinet meeting and was announced by Cárdenas in a March 18, 1938 radio address. Though Cárdenas pledged to compensate the oil companies for their losses, expropriation resulted in damaging repercussions.
