1846 in Mexico
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Events in the year 1846 in Mexico.
Incumbents
- President – Mariano Paredes
- President – José Mariano Salas
- President – Valentín Gómez Farías
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Felipe Nieto y del Portillo/Felipe Cosio
- Chiapas: Jerónimo Cardona
- Chihuahua:
- Coahuila: Rafael Vázquez/José María de Aguirre González/Santiago Rodríguez del Bosquea
- Durango:
- Guanajuato:
- Guerrero:
- Jalisco: Antonio Escobedo/Juan Nepomuceno Cumplido/José María Yáñez/Joaquín Angulo
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Nuevo León: Pedro de Ampudia
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro: Julián Juvera
- San Luis Potosí:
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco:
- Tamaulipas: Juan Martin de la Garza Flores/Manuel Núñez Ponce/Manuel Saldaña/Francisco Vital Fernandez
- Veracruz: Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora/José de Emparán/Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora
- Yucatán: Miguel Barbachano
- Zacatecas:
Events
- April 25 – Mexican–American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas' boundaries.[1]
- May 8 – Mexican–American War – Battle of Palo Alto: Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande at Palo Alto, Texas in the first major battle of the war.
- May 9 – Mexican–American War – Battle of Resaca de la Palma in Brownsville, Texas
- May 13 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
- June 10 – Mexican–American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.
- June 14 – Bear Flag Revolt: American settlers in Sonoma, California start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
- July 7 – Acting on instructions from Washington, D.C., Commodore
- August 6 – José Mariano Salas assumed the presidency as provisional president.
- August 22 – President José Mariano Salas decreed the 1824 Constitution of Mexico in effect again.[2]
- September 21-24 – Battle of Monterrey
Notable births
- May 22 – Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, teacher, poet and activist (d. 1908)[3]
References
- ^ K. Jack Bauer (1993). Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. Louisiana State University Press. p. 149. ISBN 9780807118511. Archived from the original on May 14, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
- ^ Rivera Cambas, Manuel (1873). Los Gobernantes de Mexico: Tomo II (in Spanish). J.M. Aguilar Cruz. p. 304.
- ^ "RITA CETINA GUTIÉRREZ" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-23.