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On February 5, 1597, in the state of Nuevo León (Mexico), the village of San Nicolás de los Garza was founded.
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On December 16, 1602 in Mexico, Sebastián Vizcaíno is the first European to arrive at the Bay of Monterrey, where he founded the port of the same name.
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On November 17, 1617 in Veracruz (Mexico), Viceroy Diego Fernández de Córdoba orders the founding of the village of Córdoba.
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On November 23, 1642, the government of Viceroy Count of Salvatierra begins in Mexico.
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On August 22, 1646 in the former State of the West (Mexico), Ignacio Molarja and Jerónimo de la Canal founded the Jesuit mission of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Arizpe, today Arizpe in the current state of Sonora.
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On December 8, 1659, in the Mexican village of Paso del Norte (today Ciudad Juárez), the Franciscan friar García de San Francisco founded the Mission of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Mansos del Paso del Río del Norte.
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On July 7, 1680 in Juanacatlán (Mexico) the construction of the Lateran Basilica was completed
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On May 14, 1699, the town of San Pedro Caro was founded in Mexico.
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On October 12, 1709 in Mexico, after a democratic vote, the Villa de San Francisco de Cuéllar (later San Felipe del Real Chihuahua, currently Chihuahua) was founded.
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On July 16, 1717 in Campeche (in New Spain, now Mexico) the Villa de Valeros, now Ciudad del Carmen, was founded.
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On March 28, 1787, in the border area between Guerrero and Oaxaca (Mexico), an earthquake of magnitude 8.6 occurred, being the strongest recorded so far in the country.
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On December 17, 1790, under the Zócalo of Mexico City, the Aztec Sun Stone was discovered.
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On November 3, 1792 in Nueva Galicia (today the State of Jalisco, Mexico) the University of Guadalajara opens its doors.
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On June 28, 1817 in Mexico, the Battle of Los Arrastraderos took place, where the insurgents commanded by General Francisco Xavier Mina defeated the royalist forces commanded by Colonel Cristóbal Ordóñez.
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On November 11, 1817, the military Javier Mina was shot in Mexico.
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On August 31, 1909, more than a thousand people died in Mexico due to catastrophic floods.
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On February 24, 1917, the British intelligence service intercepted a telegram from Arthur Zimmermann, German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in which he asked Mexico to enter the war against the United States.
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El 3 de enero de 1920 en México varios terremotos y volcanes en erupción destruyen pueblos y ocasionan más de 7000 víctimas.
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On March 3, 2001, at the Azteca Stadium (Mexico), the United for Peace recital was held, presented by the group Maná and Jaguares.
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On July 6, 2006, the Federal Electoral Institute proclaims that the candidate Felipe Calderón Hinojosa obtained the majority of votes in the presidential election of July 2 in Mexico with a little more than 240,000 votes difference with respect to the candidate
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On October 23, 2015, a devastating category 5 tropical cyclone—Hurricane Patricia—one of the strongest hurricanes in human history, forms on the Mexican Pacific coast.
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On December 31, 2019 In Zacatecas, Mexico, a fight is recorded in the Cereso de Cieneguillas that leaves a balance of 16 dead and 5 injured.
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On November 12, 2020 In Mexico, Banxico issues the new 100 peso bill
