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The "Congress of Chilpancingo" is inaugurated, José María Morelos y Pavón delivers the inaugural speech
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The Inquisition declares Morelos a heretic and sentences him to life imprisonment in Africa, if he is not sentenced to the death penalty.
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José María Morelos is executed by a firing squad in San Cristóbal de Ecatepec.
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Guerrero, and another insurgent leader, Guadalupe Victoria, announced the plan .
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Iturbide was proclaimed head of the Army of the Three Guarantees.,with Guerrero fully supporting him and recognizing him as his leader.
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Iturbide returned to Mexico but was arrested and shot
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The USA admitted the independent state of Texas into the Union, despite warnings from the Mexican government that to do so would mean war.
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The conflict began in when the US army began its march south toward Mexico City.
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Santa Anna was forced to sign a treaty, selling for $15 million dollars more than half of the Mexican territory
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La Reforma period began with the issuance of the Plan de Ayutla, a liberal pronouncement calling for the removal of the dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna.
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After Santa Anna’s fall, Juárez and the liberals enacted the Ley Juárez, abolishing the fueros (special privileges of the clergy and the military).
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Conservative resistance to this culminated in the Plan of Tacubaya, which ousted the government of President Ignacio Comonfort (from 11 December 1855 to 21 January 1858)in a coup d'état and took control of Mexico City, forcing the Liberals to move their government to the city of Veracruz
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The Ley Lerdo ordered the sale of all church lands not used for specifically religious purposes.
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A new Constitution was written, establishing a Federal Republic, just as the Liberals wanted
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The congress, in which the moderate liberals held sway, drafted a liberal, federalist constitution
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The War of Reform in Mexico, during the Second Federal Republic of Mexico, was the three-year civil war (1857–1860)
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The liberals passed a series of separate laws implementing their vision of Mexico, and then promulgated the Constitution, which gave constitutional force to their program.
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Benito Juárez, the bright son of Zapotec descendants from Oaxaca and a lawyer, became President.
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The conservative clergy, military, and landowners precipitated a civil war
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Ignacio Comonfort was president of Mexico from 11 December 1855 to 21 January 1858. During his term as president, Benito Juárez served as president of the Supreme Court of Mexico.
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By the Laws of La Reforma, church property, except for places of worship, was to be confiscated without compensation, monasteries were suppressed, cemeteries nationalized, and civil marriage instituted.
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Full hostilities between Liberal and Conservative forces raged from 1858-60. The Conservatives controlled Mexico City, but not Veracruz. Twice in 1860 Conservative forces under General Miguel Miramón tried to take the city but failed.
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Two ships previously acquired by the Conservative government were prevented from entering the city by a US naval force, acting in support of the Liberal faction of Benito Juarez.
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The Liberal government would be located in Veracruz from 1858-1861
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This incident is known as the Battle of Anton Lizardo. In the same year Conservative forces were defeated in Oaxaca and Guadalajara. In December 1860 Gen. Miramón surrendered outside of Mexico City. Liberal forces reoccupied the capital on 1 January 1861, with Benito Juárez joining them a week later
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Juárez's interim presidency was confirmed by his election in March 1861.
