Post-Revolutionary Period (1920-1940)

  • Revolt against Carranza

    Obregón declares himself in revolt against Carranza, whose support collapses.
  • Murdered

    Venustiano Carranza is murdered
  • President Obregon

    Obregon elected president
  • Revolution is over!

    Obregón sworn in as President. The Revolution is over.
  • SEP foundation

    Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) founded
  • El Maestro

    El Maestro published by SEP
  • Syndicate is founded

    The Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors founded
  • R.I.P

    Pancho Villa assassinated by order of Obregón
  • Bucareli Agreement

    Bucareli Agreement signed
  • De la Huerta

    De la Huerta Revolt
  • New President

    Plutarco Calles elected president
  • Siqueiros murals

    Siqueiros painted his murals The Myths and Burial of a Martyred Worker at the National Preparatory School
  • Church restriction

    Calles introduced laws which restricted the Catholic Church
  • Rural schools

    Moisés Sáenz greatly expanded network of rural schools
  • Viva Cristo rey!

    cristero revolt
  • Ambassador in Mexico

    Dwight Morrow appointed US ambassador to Mexico
  • R.I.P

    Obregon is assassinated
  • Maximato

    Maximato begins
  • PNR

    Calles created the National Revolutionary Party (PNR)
  • Rivera's mural

    Rivera began his Epic of the Mexican People mural
  • SEP

    The Marxist Narciso Bassols headed the SEP
  • New President!

    Cárdenas elected president
  • Deportation

    Calles deported to USA
  • CTM

    CTM labor union formed
  • Orozco’s murals

    Orozco’s Guanajuato murals
  • Petroleum industry

    President Cárdenas nationalized the petroleum industry
  • PRM

    PNR transformed into Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM)
  • Cedillo Rebelion

    Cedillo Rebellion began and lasted until January 1939
  • Good Neighbor Policy

    US Good Neighbor Policy instituted by President Roosevelt
  • Death of Trotsky

    Trotsky murdered in Mexico City Ávila Camacho became president