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When the army of Hernán Cortés toppled across the Aztecs which created 3 centuries of colonial rule of mexico.
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Napoleon’s invasion and occupation of Spain heightened the revolutionary fervor in Mexico and other Spanish colonies. On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a respected Catholic priest issued a passionate rallying cry known as the “Grito de Dolores that amounted to a declaration of war against the colonial government.”
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Hidalgo’s declaration helped the mexicans a lot because he created a long struggle that ended the 300 years of colonial rule, which created an independent mexico and a unique mexican identity.
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Napoleon's army came close to capturing mexico's capital, but mexico did not let him.
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The new government promised reforms to appease the mexican revolutionaries. But mexico wanted to have independance for a means of maintaining their privileged position in mexico.
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Agustín Iturbide, a mestizo accepted as a criollo who opposed the insurgent approach to independence, formed a junta with revolutionary Vicente Guerrero to engineer Mexican independence in 1821
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Juan de O’Donojú signed a treaty, which approves a plan to make mexico its own independent constitutional monarchy.
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The Republican leaders Santa Anna and Guadalupe Victoria set up the republican and made Guadalupe Victoria the first president
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The Cinco de Mayo holiday is a celebration of Mexico’s freedom from the french in the battle of Puebla.
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n 2010, the festivities included a special if somewhat macabre feature. In honor of the country’s bicentennial, the remains of 12 men who fought for Mexican independence including Hidalgo, Morelos, Matamoros and Guerrero were exhumed in a military ceremony led by President Felipe Calderón.