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De la Huerta had already successfully used it with Pancho Villa. Not trusting Villa to remain on the sidelines, Obregón had him assassinated in 1923. [147] In 1923 De la Huerta rebelled against Obregón and his choice of Calles as his successor as president, leading to a split in the military.
On the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Mexican Revolution the Federal District Government carried out the rehabilitation and restoration of Republic Square, Monumento a la Revolución (Monument to the Revolution) and National Museum of the Revolution. The first crucial revolution during the 20th century was the Mexican Revolution. [6]
The Mexican War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia de México, 16 September 1810 – 27 September 1821) was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from the Spanish Empire.
María Quinteras de Meras was a Mexican revolutionary and soldadera who rose to the rank of colonel. She dressed as a man and fought in ten battles between 1910 and 1913. Her fighting was so fierce she was thought to have supernatural powers. [1] De Meras joined Pancho Villa's army in 1910. [2]
When de la Madrid chose Carlos Salinas as his successor, he upset the popular leftist Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, son of President Lázaro Cárdenas, who expected to be designated the PRI candidate. Cárdenas was thus motivated to leave the PRI and establish the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) in 1989 as the second significant ...
Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu (Spanish pronunciation: [aɣusˈtin de ituɾˈbiðe] ⓘ; 27 September 1783 – 19 July 1824), commonly known as Agustín de Iturbide and later by his regnal name Agustín I, was the first Emperor of Mexico from 1822 until his abdication in 1823.
De la Barra and the Congress, therefore, decided to send regular troops under Victoriano Huerta to suppress Zapata's revolutionaries. Madero once again traveled south to urge Zapata to disband his supporters peacefully, but Zapata refused on the grounds that Huerta's troops were advancing on Yautepec .
INEHRM's building in San Ángel, Mexico City. The Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana (English: National Institute of Historical Studies on the Mexican Revolution; INEHRM) is a research institute of the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education (Spanish: Secretaría de Educación Pública), dedicated to studying the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920).