1916 in Mexico
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Events from the year 1916 in Mexico.
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Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Venustiano Carranza[1]
Governors
- Aguascalientes:
- Campeche: JoaquÃn Mucel Acereto
- Chiapas: José Ascención González/Blas Corral/Pablo Villanueva
- Chihuahua: Arnulfo González
- Coahuila: Bruno Neyra/Alfredo Breceda/Gustavo Espinoza Mireles
- Colima: Interim Governors
- Durango:
- Guanajuato: Fernando Dávila
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco: Manuel M. Diéguez/Emiliano Degollado
- State of Mexico: Pascual Morales y Molina/Rafael Cepeda
- Michoacán: Alfredo Elizondo
- Morelos: Lorenzo Vázquez/Dionisio Carreón
- Nayarit: José Santos GodÃnez
- Nuevo León: Nicéforo Zambrano
- Oaxaca: Juan Jiménez Méndez
- Puebla:
- Querétaro: Federico Montes
- San Luis PotosÃ: Juan G. Barragán RodrÃguez
- Sinaloa: Ramón F. Iturbe
- Sonora: Plutarco ElÃas Calles
- Tabasco: JoaquÃn Ruiz/Luis Hernández Hermosillo/Heriberto Jara Corona
- Tamaulipas: Alfredo Ricaut/Andrés Osuna
- Tlaxcala:
- Veracruz:
- Yucatán: Salvador Alvarado Rubio
- Zacatecas:
Events
- March 9 â Battle of Columbus[2]
- March 29 â Battle of Guerrero[3]
- April 12 â Battle of Parral[4]
- May 5 â Glenn Springs Raid[5]
- June 15 â San Ygnacio Raid[6]
- June 21 â Battle of Carrizal[7]
Births
- February 14
- Juan Celada Salmón, engineer (Ternium) and inventor (Proceso HYL) (d. 2017)
- Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, Governor of Sinaloa 1963â1968 (d. 1989)
- April 11 â Armando León Bejarano, governor of Morelos (1976-1982) (d. 2016)
- June 12 â Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-born American politician (Democratic Party), governor of Arizona, diplomat, and judge (d. April 10, 2015).
Deaths
- January 13 â Victoriano Huerta, 35th President of Mexico (b. 1850)[8]
- April 16 â Amador Salazar was a leader of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution (b. 1868)[9]
Notes
- Beede, Benjamin R. (1994). The War of 1898, and U.S. Interventions, 1898-1934: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 218. ISBN 9780824056247.