1891 in Mexico

← 1890 1889 1888 1891 in Mexico → 1892 1893 1894
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1891 List of years in Mexico

Events in the year 1891 in Mexico.

Incumbents

• President: Porfirio Diaz

Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

Events

• June 23 – establishment of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuernavaca, Roman Catholic Diocese of Saltillo, Roman Catholic Diocese of Tehuantepec and Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic
• September 15 – Garza Revolution: 60-80 followers of Catarino Garza crossed the Rio Grande from Texas into Mexico. Most are Mexican-Americans recruited locally.
• September 16 – a telegram is sent from Fort Ringgold to the United States Army's Department of Texas informing of the crossing
• December 26 – The Mexican Army is attacked by Garza's followers in a raid from San Ygnacio, Texas

Deaths

• February 4 – Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic prelate and politician (b. 1816)
• December 17 – José María Iglesias, Mexican lawyer and journalist, interim president from 1876 to 1877 (b. 1823)[1]

See also

• Garza Revolution

References

1. "JOSÉ MARÍA IGLESIAS" (in Spanish). Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico. Archived from the original on May 30, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2019.