1846 in Mexico
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Incumbents
- President â Mariano Paredes
- President â José Mariano Salas
- President â ValentÃn Gómez FarÃas
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Felipe Nieto y del Portillo/Felipe Cosio
- Chiapas: Jerónimo Cardona
- Chihuahua: Ãngel TrÃas Ãlvarez/Mauricio Ugarte/Cayetano Justiniani/José MarÃa Irigoyen RodrÃguez/Ãngel TrÃas Ãlvarez
- Coahuila: Rafael Vázquez/José MarÃa de Aguirre González/Santiago RodrÃguez del Bosquea
- Durango:
- Guanajuato:
- Guerrero:
- Jalisco: Antonio Escobedo/Juan Nepomuceno Cumplido/José MarÃa Yáñez/JoaquÃn Angulo
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Nuevo León: Pedro de Ampudia
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro: Julián Juvera
- San Luis PotosÃ:
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco:
- Tamaulipas: Juan Martin de la Garza Flores/Manuel Núñez Ponce/Manuel Saldaña/Francisco Vital Fernandez
- Veracruz: Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora/José de Emparán/Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora
- Yucatán: Miguel Barbachano
- Zacatecas:
Events


- April 25 â MexicanâAmerican War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas's boundaries.[1]
- May 8 â MexicanâAmerican War â Battle of Palo Alto: Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande at Palo Alto, Texas, in the first major battle of the war.
- May 9 â MexicanâAmerican War â Battle of Resaca de la Palma in Brownsville, Texas
- May 13 â MexicanâAmerican War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
- June 10 â MexicanâAmerican War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.
- June 14 â Bear Flag Revolt: American settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
- July 7 â Acting on instructions from Washington, DC, Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.
- August 6 â José Mariano Salas assumes the presidency as provisional president.
- August 22 â President Salas decrees the 1824 Constitution of Mexico in effect again.[2]
- September 21â24 â Battle of Monterrey
Notable births
- May 22 â Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, teacher, poet and activist (d. 1908)[3]

