How did the Mexican Revolution begin in 1910?
The Mexican Revolution begins
La Revolución mexicana
20 November 1910–1920. Francisco I.
Draft: not yet checked against its sources.
Where: Mexico
What happened
Francisco I. Madero, a landowner's son who had run against Porfirio Díaz on the slogan 'effective suffrage, no re-election', was jailed before the rigged election of 1910. From Texas he issued the Plan de San Luis, dated 5 October 1910, which rejected the election, promised to return stolen village lands and called Mexicans to arms at six in the evening on 20 November. In May 1911 Pascual Orozco and Francisco 'Pancho' Villa took Ciudad Juárez, Díaz left for exile, and Madero was elected president. But Emiliano Zapata's peasants in Morelos broke with him over land, and in February 1913 General Victoriano Huerta overthrew and murdered him. A decade of war among Carranza, Villa, Zapata and Obregón followed, with perhaps a million dead or displaced, before the Constitution of 1917. 20 November is a national holiday.
Say it
La Revolución mexicana empezó el 20 de noviembre de 1910.
The Mexican Revolution began on 20 November 1910.
Why it matters
The Revolution is the founding myth of modern Mexico: its land reform, its anti-clericalism, its party that ruled for seventy years, its murals and its corridos. Villa and Zapata are still the names on the banners.
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Connected
- The Porfiriato: order, progress and inequality (1876–May 1911)
- The Porfiriato: order, progress and inequality (1876–May 1911)
- The Constitution of 1917 and Article 27 (5 February 1917)
- The Constitution of 1917 and Article 27 (5 February 1917)
- Mexican muralism is born at San Ildefonso (c. 1922–1926)
- Mexican muralism is born at San Ildefonso (c. 1922–1926)
- Migration north and the Spanish of the United States (1942–)
- Tlatelolco, 2 October 1968 (2 October 1968)
- Before: The Porfiriato: order, progress and inequality
- After: The Constitution of 1917 and Article 27
Sources
- Inicio de la Revolución Mexicana: el fin del porfiriato y el levantamiento de Madero — Secretaría de Gobernación (gob.mx)
- Crecimiento económico durante el Porfiriato — Nueva Escuela Mexicana Digital (SEP)