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Events in the year 1920 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Venustiano Carranza until May 21, Vacant until June 1, Adolfo de la Huerta until November 30, Álvaro Obregón 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: Aurelio L. González/Rafael Arellano Valle
• Campeche: Enrique Arias Solís/Eduardo Arceo Zumárraga/Gonzalo Sales Guerrero
• Chiapas: Pascual Morales Molina/Tiburcio Fernández Ruíz
• Chihuahua: Andrés Ortiz/Ignacio C. Enríquez
• Coahuila: Gustavo Espinoza Mireles
• Colima: Miguel Álvarez García
• Durango:
• Guanajuato: Federico Montes/Toribio Villaseñor/Agustín de Ezcurdia/Antonio Madrazo/Enrique Colunga
• Guerrero: Francisco Figueroa Mata
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco: Ignacio Ramos Praslow/Francisco Labastida Izquierdo
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit: Francisco D. Santiago/Fernando S. Ibarra/Salvador Arriola Valdés/José Santos Godínez
• Nuevo León: José E. Santos/Humberto Barros/Felix G. Lozano/Porfirio G. González
• Oaxaca: Manuel García Vigil
• Puebla: Alfonso Cabrera Lobato/Rafael Rojas/Luis Sánchez Pontón
• Querétaro: Salvador Argain Domínguez/Fernando N. Villarreal/Rómulo de la Torre/José M. Truchuelo
• San Luis Potosí: Severino Martínez Gómez/Rafael Nieto Compéan
• Sinaloa: Ramón F. Iturbe/Ángel Flores
• Sonora: Adolfo de la Huerta
• Tabasco: Carlos Greene Ramírez
• Tamaulipas: Francisco González Villarreal/Rafael Cárdenas/Emilio Portes Gil/Federico Martínez Rojas/José Morante
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz: Cándido Aguilar Vargas/Adalberto Tejeda Olivares
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

Events

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• 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 and 4,000 were killed and 167 were injured.
• April 23: Mexican Revolution: Plan of Agua Prieta is proclaimed; rebellion against Venustiano Carranza commences.
• May 21: Mexican Revolution: President Venustiano Carranza is assassinated while sleeping in Tlaxcalantongo in the Sierra Norte de Puebla mountains after fleeing Mexico City and heading towards Veracruz.
• June 1: Adolfo de la Huerta becomes provisional president.
• September 5: 1920 Mexican general election: Álvaro Obregón defeats Alfredo Robles Domínguez.
• December 1: Álvaro Obregón becomes president after winning the federal election which brings an end to the Mexican Revolution and has the first stable presidency since the revolution began.

Popular culture

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Sports

Music

Film

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

Literature

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)
• 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.
• June 2 – Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, archaeologist and archbishop of Monterrey, 1911–1920 (b. 1856)
• December 14 – Gen. Benjamín Hill, Secretary of War, dies in suspicious circumstances. (b. 1877)

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.

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