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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:
- Jalisco: Ignacio Ramos Praslow/ Francisco Labastida Izquierdo
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Morelos:
- 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:
- Veracruz: Cándido Aguilar Vargas/ Adalberto Tejeda Olivares
- Yucatán:
- Zacatecas:
Events
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- January 3: The 7.8 Ms 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.
Popular culture
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Sports
Music
Film
Literature
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) [1]
- 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. [2]
- June 2 – Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, archaeologist and archbishop of Monterrey, 1911–1920 (b. 1856) [3]
- December 14 – Gen. Benjamín Hill, Secretary of War, dies in suspicious circumstances. (b. 1877) [4]
References
- ^ A cien años del natalicio de Chava Flores, el cronista musical La Jornada, 14 Jan 2020
- ^ "Venustiano Carranza" (in Spanish). La Historia de Mexico. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
- ^ "Michoacán en la colección de Francisco Plancarte" [Michoacán in the collection of Francisco Plancarte] (in Spanish). Museo Nacional de Antropologia. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
- ^ "General de División: BENJAMIN G. HILL (1877-1920)" [Division General: BENJAMIN G. HILL (1877-1920)] (in Spanish). SEDENA. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
