Mexican Revolution Timeline of Events

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Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements. Over time the Revolution changed from a revolt against the established order to a multi-sided civil war...

Timeline of Events

1910

11.20.1910

Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the ''Plan de San Luis Potosi'', denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.

1911

5.21.1911

Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.

1914

6.23.1914

Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.

11.23.1914

Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.

1919

4.10.1919

Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.