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Tenochtitlan was taken by Spanish forces. The tlatoani Cuauhtémoc was taken prisoner.
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War of the Spanish Succession
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Philip abdicated in favor of his son Louis I of Spain.
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The Society of Jesus was expelled from New Spain.
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The autonomous Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas was established under Teodoro de Croix in the northern provinces of New Spain.
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After Hidalgo orders Juan Antonio Riaño the surrender of Guanajuato, the insurgent troops led by José Mariano Abasolo and Ignacio Camargo take the city.
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Miguel Hidalgo is executed by a firing squad and beheaded in Chihuahua.
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Morelos delivers the inaugural speech and Juan Nepomuceno Rosáins reads the Sentimientos de la Nación.
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The Spanish colonel Agustín de Iturbide and the insurgent leader Vicente Guerrero together issued the Plan of Iguala at a meeting in Iguala
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The U.S. Congress declares war against Mexico.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican–American War is signed in Mexico City
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The Second Mexican Empire is declared, with the support of French Emperor Napoleon III, as well as the Austrian and Belgian crowns
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Francisco I. Madero calls for armed rebellion against the government of President Porfirio Díaz.
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President Adolfo López Mateos nationalized the electrical system.
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President José López Portillo nationalizes the banking industry.
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was elected president in a rigged election, with an official 51% of the vote
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The PRI won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the PRD led hundreds of thousands in a protest against the election results at Zócalo in Mexico City.
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struck at 13:14 CDT on 19 September 2017 with a magnitude of Mw 7.1 and strong shaking for about 20 seconds. Its epicenter was about 55 km (34 mi) south of the city of Puebla
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Together we will make history (a coalition of MORENA and the Labor Party) is elected 58th president with 53% of the vote.