Porfirio Díaz Timeline of Events

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Porfirio Díaz

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican-American War volunteer and French intervention hero, an accomplished general and the President of Mexico continuously from 1876 to 1911, with the exception of a brief term in 1876 when he left Juan N...

Timeline of Events

1861

1.1.1861

Porfirio Díaz conquers Mexico City.

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.