1920 in Mexico

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Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1920 List of years in Mexico

Events in the year 1920 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Venustiano Carranza until May 21, Adolfo de la Huerta, Alvaro Obregon from December 1
• Secretary of War and Navy: Benjamín G. Hill
• Secretary of the Interior: Gilberto Valenzuela, José Inociencio Lugo, Plutarco Elias Calles from December 1

Governors

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

Events

• January 3: The 7.8 M_s  Veracruz earthquake affected the eastern part of the country with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X–XII. Between 648–4,000 were killed and 167 were injured.
• April 23: Plan of Agua Prieta is proclaimed; rebellion against Venustiano Carranza commences.
• June 1: Adolfo de la Huerta becomes provisional president.
• September 5: Federal elections.
• December 1: Álvaro Obregón becomes president after winning the federal election.

Popular culture

Film

• Hasta después de la muerte
• El Zarco or Los Plateados

Notable births

• January 14 – Chava Flores, musical chronicler Álbum de Oro de la Canción and composer (Dos horas de balazos and La tertulia) (d. August 5, 1987)[1]
• February 13 – Carlos Quintero Arce, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Hermosillo (1968–1996)
• April 20 — José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Coahuila 1981–1987 (d. 2011)
• June 16 – José López Portillo, president of Mexico (1970–1976)
• July 29 – Rodolfo Acosta, television actor
• November 25 – Ricardo Montalbán, actor (died 2009)

Notable deaths

• May 21 – President Venustiano Carranza (b. 1859) is assassinated by Rodolfo Herrero.[2]
• June 2 — Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, archaeologist and archbishop of Monterrey, 1911-1920 (b. 1856)[3]
• December 14 – Gen. Benjamín Hill, Secretary of War, dies in suspicious circumstances. (b. 1877)[4]

References

1. A cien años del natalicio de Chava Flores, el cronista musical La Jornada, 14 Jan 2020
2. "Venustiano Carranza" (in Spanish). La Historia de Mexico. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
3. "Michoacán en la colección de Francisco Plancarte" [Michoacán in the collection of Francisco Plancarte] (in Spanish). Museo Nacional de Antropologia. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
4. "General de División: BENJAMIN G. HILL (1877-1920)" [Division General: BENJAMIN G. HILL (1877-1920)] (in Spanish). SEDENA. Retrieved May 29, 2019.