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Candidates for the Presidency
Francisco I. Madero is elected candidate for the presidency of the Republic by the Antireelectionist Party. The race for the presidency is focused on two candidates, Porfirio Díaz and Francisco I. Madero. -
Porfirio Diaz is exiled
Porfirio Díaz resigns from the presidency of Mexico after more than 30 years in power. Days later he went into exile. -
Freely Elections
The XXVI Legislature of the Chamber of Deputies begins sessions, freely elected for the first time. -
The Presidency
Gustavo Madero is murdered. Madero and Pino Suárez resign from the presidency and vice presidency of the country. After 45 minutes in power, Pedro Lascuráin, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, resigns and his place is taken by Victoriano Huerta, whom he had appointed Secretary of the Interior. -
Villa & Zapata
Villa and Zapata occupy Mexico City and march with 50,000 men through the main streets. Their first meeting was two days before in Xochimilco. -
The definitive victory
For three months, Álvaro Obregón faced and defeated Pancho Villa in the Bajío region, in the famous battles of Celaya and Trinidad. The victory over Villa gives the definitive victory to Carranza. -
Drafting of the new constitution
Convened by Venustiano Carranza, the Constituent Congress begins its sessions in Querétaro, which will be in charge of drafting the new Constitution. -
The Constitution
The Constitution is promulgated -
The flu
After eight years of a bloody armed struggle that devastated the country, the Spanish flu arrived in Mexico in October, one of the worst pandemics in human history -
Zapata was murder
During Carranza's constitutional presidency, the Zapatista movement was defeated and Zapata was assassinated -
The end
The Villistas gradually lost power, and after Carranza was assassinated in 1920, interim president Adolfo de la Huerta offered Villa land for his men and a hacienda in exchange for his withdrawal from political activity. Villa agreed. These events marked the end of the Mexican Revolution.