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1920 in Mexico

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Events in the year 1920 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

  • President: Venustiano Carranza until May 21, Vacant until June 1, Adolfo de la Huerta until November 30, Álvaro Obregón from December 1
  • Secretary of War and Navy: Benjamín G. Hill
  • 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 Solís/Eduardo Arceo Zumárraga/Gonzalo Sales Guerrero
  • Chiapas: Pascual Morales Molina/Tiburcio Fernández Ruíz
  • Chihuahua: Andrés Ortiz/Ignacio C. Enríquez
  • Coahuila: Gustavo Espinoza Mireles
  • Colima: Miguel Álvarez García
  • Durango:
  • Guanajuato: Federico Montes/Toribio Villaseñor/Agustín 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/Agustín Millán Vivero/Darío López/Abundio Gómez
  • Michoacán: Rafael Álvarez/Francisco José Múgica/Celerino Luviano/José Rentería Luviano
  • Morelos: Juan María Rodríguez/Luis Flores Martínez/José G. Parres Guerrero
  • Nayarit: Francisco D. Santiago/Fernando S. Ibarra/Salvador Arriola Valdés/José Santos Godínez
  • Nuevo León: José E. Santos/Humberto Barros/Felix G. Lozano/Porfirio G. González
  • Oaxaca: Manuel García Vigil
  • Puebla: Alfonso Cabrera Lobato/Rafael Rojas/Luis Sánchez Pontón
  • Querétaro: Salvador Argain Domínguez/Fernando N. Villarreal/Rómulo de la Torre/José M. Truchuelo
  • San Luis Potosí: Severino Martínez Gómez/Rafael Nieto Compéan
  • Sinaloa: Ramón F. Iturbe/Ángel Flores
  • Sonora: Adolfo de la Huerta
  • Tabasco: Carlos Greene Ramírez
  • Tamaulipas: Francisco González Villarreal/Rafael Cárdenas/Emilio Portes Gil/Federico Martínez Rojas/José Morante
  • Tlaxcala: Máximo Rojas/Ignacio Mendoza/Octavio Hidalgo/Manuel R. Solís
  • Veracruz: Cándido Aguilar Vargas/Adalberto Tejeda Olivares
  • Yucatán:
  • Zacatecas: Donato Moreno Muro (starting 16 September)

Events

  • January 3: The 7.8 Veracruz earthquake affected the eastern part of the country with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X–XII. 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: Álvaro Obregón defeats Alfredo Robles Domínguez.
  • December 1: Álvaro 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.

Notable births

  • January 14 – Chava Flores, musical chronicler Álbum de Oro de la Canción and composer (Dos horas de balazos and La tertulia) (d. August 5, 1987)
  • February 13 – Carlos Quintero Arce, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Hermosillo (1968–1996)
  • April 20 – José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Coahuila 1981–1987 (d. 2011)
  • June 16 – José López Portillo, president of Mexico (1970–1976)
  • July 29 – Rodolfo Acosta, television actor
  • November 25 – Ricardo Montalbán, actor (died 2009)

Notable deaths

  • May 21 – President Venustiano Carranza (b. 1859) is assassinated by Rodolfo Herrero.
  • June 2 – Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, archaeologist and archbishop of Monterrey, 1911–1920 (b. 1856)
  • December 14 – Gen. Benjamín Hill, Secretary of War, dies in suspicious circumstances. (b. 1877)

References

References

  1. "Benjamin Hill Revolutionary War Hero".
  2. [https://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/capital/2020/01/14/a-cien-anos-del-natalicio-de-chava-flores-el-cronista-musical-3961.html A cien años del natalicio de Chava Flores, el cronista musical] La Jornada, 14 Jan 2020
  3. "Venustiano Carranza". La Historia de Mexico.
  4. "Michoacán en la colección de Francisco Plancarte". Museo Nacional de Antropologia.
  5. "General de División: BENJAMIN G. HILL (1877-1920)". SEDENA.
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