1920 in Mexico
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Events in the year 1920 in Mexico.
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Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Venustiano Carranza until May 21, Vacant until June 1, Adolfo de la Huerta until November 30, Ãlvaro Obregón from December 1
- Secretary of War and Navy: BenjamÃn G. Hill[1]
- Secretary of the Interior: Gilberto Valenzuela, José Inociencio Lugo, Plutarco Elias Calles from December 1
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Aurelio L. González/Rafael Arellano Valle
- Campeche: Enrique Arias SolÃs/Eduardo Arceo Zumárraga/Gonzalo Sales Guerrero
- Chiapas: Pascual Morales Molina/Tiburcio Fernández RuÃz
- Chihuahua: Andrés Ortiz/Ignacio C. EnrÃquez
- Coahuila: Gustavo Espinoza Mireles
- Colima: Miguel Ãlvarez GarcÃa
- Durango:
- Guanajuato: Federico Montes/Toribio Villaseñor/AgustÃn de Ezcurdia/Antonio Madrazo/Enrique Colunga
- Guerrero: Francisco Figueroa Mata
- Hidalgo: Nicolás Flores Rubio
- Jalisco: Ignacio Ramos Praslow/Francisco Labastida Izquierdo
- State of Mexico: Francisco Javier Gaxiola/AgustÃn Millán Vivero/DarÃo López/Abundio Gómez
- Michoacán: Rafael Ãlvarez/Francisco José Múgica/Celerino Luviano/José RenterÃa Luviano
- Morelos: Juan MarÃa RodrÃguez/Luis Flores MartÃnez/José G. Parres Guerrero
- Nayarit: Francisco D. Santiago/Fernando S. Ibarra/Salvador Arriola Valdés/José Santos GodÃnez
- Nuevo León: José E. Santos/Humberto Barros/Felix G. Lozano/Porfirio G. González
- Oaxaca: Manuel GarcÃa Vigil
- Puebla: Alfonso Cabrera Lobato/Rafael Rojas/Luis Sánchez Pontón
- Querétaro: Salvador Argain DomÃnguez/Fernando N. Villarreal/Rómulo de la Torre/José M. Truchuelo
- San Luis PotosÃ: Severino MartÃnez Gómez/Rafael Nieto Compéan
- Sinaloa: Ramón F. Iturbe/Ãngel Flores
- Sonora: Adolfo de la Huerta
- Tabasco: Carlos Greene RamÃrez
- Tamaulipas: Francisco González Villarreal/Rafael Cárdenas/Emilio Portes Gil/Federico MartÃnez Rojas/José Morante
- Tlaxcala: Máximo Rojas/Ignacio Mendoza/Octavio Hidalgo/Manuel R. SolÃs
- Veracruz: Cándido Aguilar Vargas/Adalberto Tejeda Olivares
- Yucatán:
- Zacatecas: Donato Moreno Muro (starting 16 September)
Events
- January 3: The 7.8 Ms⯠Veracruz earthquake affected the eastern part of the country with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XâXII. Between 648 and 4,000 were killed and 167 were injured.
- April 23: Mexican Revolution: Plan of Agua Prieta is proclaimed; rebellion against Venustiano Carranza commences.
- May 21: Mexican Revolution: President Venustiano Carranza is assassinated while sleeping in Tlaxcalantongo in the Sierra Norte de Puebla mountains after fleeing Mexico City and heading towards Veracruz.
- June 1: Adolfo de la Huerta becomes provisional president.
- September 5: 1920 Mexican general election: Ãlvaro Obregón defeats Alfredo Robles DomÃnguez.
- December 1: Ãlvaro Obregón becomes president after winning the federal election which brings an end to the Mexican Revolution and has the first stable presidency since the revolution began.
Popular culture
Notable births
- January 14 â Chava Flores, musical chronicler Ãlbum de Oro de la Canción and composer (Dos horas de balazos and La tertulia) (d. August 5, 1987)[2]
- February 13 â Carlos Quintero Arce, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Hermosillo (1968â1996)
- April 20 â José de las Fuentes RodrÃguez, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Coahuila 1981â1987 (d. 2011)
- June 16 â José López Portillo, president of Mexico (1970â1976)
- July 29 â Rodolfo Acosta, television actor
- November 25 â Ricardo Montalbán, actor (died 2009)
Notable deaths
- May 21 â President Venustiano Carranza (b. 1859) is assassinated by Rodolfo Herrero.[3]
- June 2 â Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, archaeologist and archbishop of Monterrey, 1911â1920 (b. 1856)[4]
- December 14 â Gen. BenjamÃn Hill, Secretary of War, dies in suspicious circumstances. (b. 1877)[5]