The Mexican Revolution and its legacy

La Revolución mexicana y la reconstrucción

1910–1940. The call to arms of 20 November 1910 against the thirty-year rule of Porfirio Díaz began a decade of revolution in which perhaps a million people died or left…

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What happened

The call to arms of 20 November 1910 against the thirty-year rule of Porfirio Díaz began a decade of revolution in which perhaps a million people died or left the country. Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza and Obregón fought for different Mexicos: free elections, land for villages, a strong state. The Constitution of 1917 wrote social rights into law for the first time anywhere, with land and subsoil belonging to the nation. In the 1920s and 1930s the state rebuilt the country through schools, murals and, under Lázaro Cárdenas, land distribution and the nationalisation of oil in 1938, while a single party took shape that ruled until 2000.

Its events

  1. 20 November 1910–1920: The Mexican Revolution begins
  2. 5 February 1917: The Constitution of 1917 and Article 27
  3. c. 1922–1926: Mexican muralism is born at San Ildefonso

Sources

  1. Inicio de la Revolución Mexicana: el fin del porfiriato y el levantamiento de Madero — Secretaría de Gobernación (gob.mx)
  2. La Constitución de 1917 — Nueva Escuela Mexicana Digital (SEP)