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On 1 December 2018, López Obrador was sworn in as Mexico's first leftist president in decades. [156] The administration has had to contend with the coronavirus pandemic. [citation needed] AMLO made his first trip outside the country to travel to Washington D.C. to sign the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. [157]
Coat of arms of the First Mexican Empire. The Spanish Empire disintegrated in the wake of Napoleon's invasion of Spain and the overthrow of the Spanish Bourbons in 1808. . Throughout Spain and its viceroyalties there was a widespread refusal to recognize Napoleon's brother Joseph I as the new French-backed king of
Mexico, [a] [b] officially the United Mexican States, [c] is a country in the southern portion of North America.Covering 1,972,550 km 2 (761,610 sq mi), [11] it is the world's 13th largest country by area; with a population of almost 130 million, it is the 10th most populous country and has the most Spanish speakers in the world. [1]
The Thornton Affair is the first clash of the Mexican–American War as 80 cavalrymen under the command of U.S. Captain Seth B. Thornton are attacked by 1600 men under the leadership of Mexican General Anastasio Torrejón in the Nueces Strip between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. 13 May: The U.S. Congress declares war against Mexico. 14 May
Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Mexico. 1519 Panama City: Panamá: Panama First European established city on the Pacific Coast of the Americas. Founded in 1519, at the present day ruins of Panama Viejo, it was sacked by the Welsh pirate Henry Morgan in 1671, and resettled to nearby Casco Viejo, in 1673. 1520
The First Mexican Republic, known also as the First Federal Republic (Spanish: Primera República Federal), existed from 1824 to 1835.It was a federated republic, established by the Constitution of 1824, the first constitution of independent Mexico, and officially designated the United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos, listen ⓘ).
Tens of millions of Mexican citizens go to the polls Sunday in a historic election in which they will most certainly elect the country's first woman president. Voters in Mexico's largest-ever ...
This founding document of the Mexican nation was drafted in the National Palace in Mexico City on September 28, 1821, by Juan José Espinosa de los Monteros, secretary of the Provisional Governmental Board. Three copies of the act were executed. One was destroyed in a fire in 1909.