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José María Juan Nepomuceno Crisóforo Iglesias Inzáurraga (5 January 1823 – 17 December 1891) [1] was a Mexican lawyer, professor, journalist and liberal politician. He is known as author of the Iglesias law , an anticlerical law regulating ecclesiastical fees and aimed at preventing the impoverishment of the Mexican peasantry.
The Catholic Church and its conservative supporters saw the Iglesias law as another piece of anticlerical legislation that diminished its power. Other laws had removed the church from its former role in recording births, marriages, and deaths as baptisms, wedding banns, holy matrimony, and burials in which priests were owed fees and created a ...
He later served as minister of foreign relations in the government of José María Iglesias. In 1890 the periodical La República held a poll to choose the most popular poet in Mexico. Prieto won easily. He was named by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano the "Mexican poet par excellence, the poet of the Fatherland".
History of Mexico; List of years in Mexico; ... December 17 – José María Iglesias, Mexican lawyer and journalist, interim president from 1876 to 1877 (b. 1823) [1]
José Iglesias may refer to: Jose Iglesias (baseball) (born 1990), Cuban baseball player; José Iglesias de la Casa (1748–1791), Spanish Roman Catholic priest; José Iglesias Fernández (1926–2007), Spanish footballer; José María Iglesias (1823–1891), Mexican lawyer and journalist
The Iglesias family of Spain Julio Iglesias Sr. (1915–2005), gynecologist, father of Julio Julio Iglesias (born 1943) singer, father of: Chabeli Iglesias (born 1971), journalist, sister of Enrique and Julio José; Julio Iglesias Jr. (born 1973), pop singer and model; Enrique Iglesias (born 1975), musician; Alberto Iglesias (born 1955 ...
The Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79, which will claim 30 million lives and become the 5th-worst famine in recorded history, begins after the droughts of the previous year. Heinz Tomato Ketchup is introduced. Adolphus Busch's brewery, Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, Missouri, first markets Budweiser, a pale lager, as a nationally sold beer.
December 17 – José María Iglesias, Mexican lawyer and journalist, interim president from 1876 to 1877 (b. 1823) [42] December 20 – William Robert Woodman, British co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (b. 1828) December 29 – Leopold Kronecker, Polish-born German mathematician, academic (b. 1823)