major+stages

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1859- Benito Juarez named President of Mexico

1871- Armed revolt against President Juarez led by General Porfirio Díaz

1877- General Porfirio Díaz named President of Mexico

1900- Flores Magón brothers found //Regeneración,// Liberal Party

1906- Strikes at Cananea mines 1906- Francisco I. Madero attends 1st National Congress of Spiritists

1907- Río Blanco textile workers' strike

1908- Madero publishes //The Presidential Succession// of 1910

October 4th 1910- President Díaz is elected to serve his eighth term as President 1910- Madero publishes Plan de San Luis Potosí November 1910- Madero enters Mexico from United States to overthrow Díaz

1911- Treaty of Ciudad Juarez removes Díaz from power, and replaces him with Francisco Madero 1911- Díaz resigns and leaves Mexico on the boat //Ypiranga//, appoints Francisco León de la Barra interim president 1911- Francisco Madero becomes President of Mexico November, 1911- Emiliano Zapata publishes his Plan de Ayala calling for sweeping agrarian reform and the resignation of Madero

1912- Orozco rebels, publishes radical plan, allies with Liberal Party and former cientificos 1912- Villa accused, convicted by Huerta military court December 25th, 1912- Villa escapes from prison, flees to United States

1913- Ten Tragic Days of street fighting in Mexico City, Generals Félix Díaz, Bernardo Reyes, Manuel Madragón attack national palace 1913- General Victoriano Huerta, backed by U.S. Ambassador Henry Wilson, leads a successful Military Coup, Madero resigns and is murdered on February 22 1913- Huerta not recognized by President Wilson, Ambassador Henry Wilson recalled 1913- Pascual Orozco joins Huerta 1913- Venustiano Carranza's Plan de Guadalupe calls for Huerta's removal. Carranza also calls for the restoration of the Constitution and declares himself chief of the Constitutionalist Army December 8th,1913- Villa defeats Huerta forces in state of Chihuahua, becomes provisional governor

April 21, 1914- President Wilson seizes Veracruz on the notion that a German vessel was delivering arms 1914- Villa and Zapata break with Carranza July 15, 1914- Huerta flees Mexico for Europe October 10, 1914- Carranza, Zapata, and Villa meet in Aguascalientes. The convention backs Zapata's //Plan de Ayala//, called for the removal of Carranza as Chief of the Constitutionalist army and appointed Eulalio Gutierrez as interim President November 23, 1914- President Wilson withdraws U.S. troops from Veracruz

1916- Oil nationalized by Mexican government

1917- The Mexican Constitution of 1917 is issued February 5, 1917- Venustiano Carranza first legally elected President of Mexico since Franciso Madero

April, 1919- Emiliano Zapata is murdered 1919- Obregón publishes manifesto attacking Carranza, announces presidential campaign

1920- Plan de Agua Prieta, Calles leads rebellion 1920- Carranza's presidency ends, he fleas Mexico with over 5 million pesos worth of gold and silver from the Treasury. He was killed on May 21 November 20, 1920- Álvaro Obregón becomes president of Mexico

1923- Pancho Villa retires to hacienda at Canutillo and is murdered on July 20th

Sources: Brenner, Anita //The Wind that Swept Mexico// pg.(193) Keen, Benjamin and Haynes, Keith //A History of Latin America// Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. //pgs.(282-295)// Shorris, Earl //The Life and Times of Mexico//: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2004. pgs.(224-226)