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Carranza is the new Mexican President - Mexican History 1917
CARRANZA IS THE NEW MEXICAN PRESIDENT
Mexican History 1917
 

Mexican Revolution Timeline - Year 1917
 

January 7, 1917
Emiliano Zapata takes Jonacatepec.


January 8, 1917

Zapata takes Yautepec.


January 10, 1917

Zapata takes Cuautla.

General Francisco Pacheco executed by  de la O's men.


January 17, 1917
Emiliano Zapata takes Cuernavaca.


January 20, 1917
Emiliano Zapata announces "The nightmare of Carrancismo, running over with horror and blood, is at its end".

Meanwhile Pablo González Garza feeds the newspapers with untrue Zapatista defeats.


February 5, 1917
Venustiano Carranza announces a new constitution, the Mexican Constitution of 1917. Its predecessor was the Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1857.

The Constitution of 1917 is still in effect today.


Beginning of March 1917
Revolt in Buenavista de Cuéllar. Revolutionaries try to break away from the authority of the General Headquarters of Tlaltizapán and its chief
Emiliano Zapata.

Otilio E. Montaño compromised. See May 15, 1917.


March 11, 1917
Elections under the new constitution in every state except
Morelos.

Venustiano Carranza becomes officially president of Mexico.


May 1, 1917
Today is the inauguration ceremony for the new constitutional president,
 Venustiano Carranza.

Alvaro Obregon feels that his duty is done and resigns as Secretary of War. He fulfills his retirement dreams as a chick-pea farmer in Sonora.


May 5, 1917
Revolt among the Zapatistas.

Emiliano Zapata orders an attack on the mutineers. Zapata,  Genovevo de la O with 10,000 men fight at Buena Vista. Zapata wins.


May 7, 1917
It is announced that Lorenzo Vázquez had been hung for treason.


May 15, 1917
Court hearing for
Otilio E. Montaño. This is a grave event and the hearing lasts until May 18.


May 18, 1917
It is 1.00 am and
Otilio E. Montaño's hearing is finished. The Court declares him guilty. Montaño arranges his affairs, kisses his family good-bye and gets executed by a firing squad in Tlaltizapán.


June 17 / 18, 1917
In a pub fight in Cuautla, drunk
Eufemio Zapata beats up the father of his sub, Colonel Sidronio Camacho. Camacho comes after Eufemio, guns him down in the street, flees north, and surrenders to the federals, the Carrancistas.


July 7, 1917
Pablo González Garza admits his defeat. He receives a two-month leave of absence to visit America "on a personal basis".

Emiliano Zapata rules Morelos,  Venustiano Carranza rules Mexico. All the fighting leaves Morelos totally devastated again. Zapata rules a wilderness.

Zapata tries to connect with other rebel groups including the Villistas but without any noteworthy success.


September 1, 1917
Emiliano Zapata issues a manifesto, stating that  Venustiano Carranza is a fake revolutionary and the fight must continue. Zapata asks Pancho Villa to sign the manifesto but didn't get any response.


November 19, 1917
Pablo González Garza is back in the saddle and takes Cuautla.


November 24, 1917
The Federals take Zacualpán and occupy Jonacatepec.


The year ends with yet another stalemate. The
guerrillas are in the mountains and the federals are in the major towns.

 

 

 

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