Mexico - Dangerous Days

 

01/01/94Chiapas uprising begins.
03/23/94Leading presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated.
05/05/1867Archduke Maximilian of Austria, who was established as emperor of Mexico in 1864 by Napoleon III of France, was deposed by Benito Juarez and executed in 1867.
06/07/97The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party suffers biggest electoral setback in its 69 years in power in Mexico.
09/16/1810Independence from Spain was declared by Father Miguel Hidalgo. The war for independence continued until 1822, when the Mexican Republic was established.
12/06/1822Establishment of the Republic.


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