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TIMELINE OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION
1910 - 1920
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
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MEXICAN REVOLUTION - WHEN DID IT START? WHEN DID IT END?
Below follows a
Timeline of the Mexican Revolution including some events
building up to it.
The Mexican Revolution officially
started in 1910 but historians disagree when it comes to its ending
point. Commonly used is the year 1920 but some say it was in 1917,
others say 1940.
MEXICAN REVOLUTION - EVENTS UP TO AND INCLUDING 1910
February 1908
James Creelman, reporter for Pearson's Magazin,
interviews Mexico's dictator Porfirio
Diaz, who announces his retirement for 1910.
Read the
original Creelman Interview.
JAMES CREELMAN
1859 - 1915
AMERICAN JOURNALIST
[...]
December 15, 1908
Manuel Alarcón, governor of
Morelos, dies. With only a short interruption, Manuel had
been Morelos' governor since 1895.
Manuel Alarcón
governor of Morelos 1895-1896 and 1896-1908
Luis Flores y Caso takes over as interim governor.
December 28, 1908
General Francisco Leyva, who himself was once Governor of
Morelos from 1869 - 1876, and President
Porfirio Díaz meet for a chat.
In the elections for Governor of the State of Morelos, Leyva's son
Patricio Leyva, an engineer, will be running against Diaz'
protégé
Pablo
Escandón y Barrón, a hacienda owner. General Leyva
warned President Diaz that this is a potential powder keg they're
sitting on.
January 7, 1909
Díaz announces that
"anyone whom the citizens of Morelos freely elect would be welcome."
January 22, 1909
Leyvistas gather all over the country. Today, 1,500 people met at
Cuautla.
February 1, 1909
An anti Diaz mob throws stones at Cuautla.
February 2, 1909
The government together with the plantation owners fight back. As an
answer to yesterday's riot in Cuautla, the rioter's families are
targeted today and taken hostage. People go into hiding and the
persecution spreads rapidly. Even the opposition candidate for
governor of Morelos, Patricio Leyva, gets arrested. Another man
involved in the melee and fighting for the peasants is Torres
Burgos.
February 7, 1909
Rigged election day. And the new governor of the state Morelos is
Pablo
Escandón y Barrón.
Even on election day the arrests keep going on. By the way,
how many votes exactly did Escandón get? Nobody knows. All we hear
is that Escandón enjoyed an "absolute majority".
March 4, 1909
William Howard Taft becomes 27th President of the United
States.
March 15, 1909
Pablo
Escandón y Barrón officially sworn into office, thus
succeeding interim governor Luis Flores y Caso. But the man is not
a happy
camper and he complaints a lot. But if Diaz asks you
to do something, you do what Diaz asks you to do.
Was Escandón any good?
Escandón changed the tax laws. The
personal tax on the peasants was abolished, the middle class was hit
hard with a big tax increase, the tax on the plantation owners was
lightened. Totally ignored was the burning issue of the land
disputes between the peasants and the hacienda owners.
However, Escandón hated his new job and
kept asking for vacation days. He handed in his first application
only two weeks after getting started on the job. The poor man was a mess. And
whiny.
[...]
September 12, 1909
The village elders of Anenecuilco vote Emiliano Zapata President of
the Defense Committee of the Lands.
October 16, 1909
Taft-Diaz meeting at El Paso / Ciudad Juarez.
[...]
December 1, 1909
David E.
Thompson resigns as US ambassador to Mexico.
Henry Lane Wilson
will become his successor on December 21, 1910.
December 21, 1909
President
William Howard Taft appoints
Henry Lane Wilson
US ambassador to Mexico.
[...]
March 5, 1910
Henry Lane Wilson
presents his credentials as the new US ambassador to Mexico.
April 25, 1910
Anenecuilco villagers write to their Governor Escandón and ask for
his support against the Hospital Hacienda, which no longer allowed
peasants to plant corn crops around Anenecuilco. The people declare
they would be even ready to forfeit ownership rights and rent land
from whoever owns it. But whatever the decision, time is an issue.
The time to plant was NOW.
Also on April 25, 1910
Enrique C. Creel,
wealthier than what anybody ever had and then some, becomes Diaz'
Secretary of Foreign Relations.
May 3, 1910
Escandón's office writes back to the village of Anenecuilco
regarding their letter from April 25, to please specify the areas
they intend to cultivate.
May 8, 1910
The people of Anenecuilco respond to Escandón's letter from May 3
and specify the lands as requested.
May 15, 1910
Escandón's office replies to the people of Anencuilco regarding
their letter from May 8 and declares that this was a matter between
the people of Anencuilco and the Hospital Hacienda.
Later, the Hospital Hacienda sent their
own reply. "Plant in a flower pot."
May 24, 1910
Representatives of Anencuilco meet with Escandón's office.
Later, the Hospital Hacienda rent lands
out to local farmers from Villa de Ayala, not Anencuilco mind you.
Zapata and his men then took the land by force. Other villages
followed his example.
June 13, 1910
On the eve of the presidential elections, Madero was arrested.
June 14, 1910
Presidential "election" day. Oops, only one candidate. And the new
president is . . . Profirio Diaz!
[...]
September 15, 1910
President Diaz' 80th birthday. When it is your dictator, you care.
September 16, 1910
The 100th anniversary of Mexican independence, aka Independence Day
for Mexico.
October 6, 1910
Madero escapes from prison disguised as a railway worker. He flees
to San Antonio, Texas, where he writes his manifesto, the
Plan of San Luis Potosí.
November 16, 1910
Federal troops round up Maderistas throughout Mexico.
November 17, 1910
The first shots of the revolution were fired in the city of Puebla
because the Maderistas didn't appreciate the rounding up. Head of
the Maderistas in Puebla was Aquiles Serdán, who led approx.
400 men.
November 18, 1910
Police tracked down Aquiles Serdán, surrounded his house while he
was in there with 20 of his men. Siege situation. At the end of the
day Serdán and his men were dead, but so were 158 police men.
By late November, 1910
The city of Guerrero is controlled by the rebels, led by
Pascual Orozco.
San Andrés is occupied by Pancho Villa and his men. Small
skirmishes everywhere in the north now.
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