1924_in_Mexico
1924 in Mexico
List of events
The following lists events that happened in 1924 in the United Mexican States.
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Federal government
- President: Álvaro Obregón (until 30 November); Plutarco Elías Calles (from 1 December)[1]
- Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Romeo Ortega
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Aarón Sáenz Garza
- Communications Secretary (SCT):
- Education Secretary (SEP):
Supreme Court
See also: National Supreme Court of Justice
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Victorino Medina
- Campeche: Ángel Castillo Lanz
- Chiapas: Rogelio García Castro
- Chihuahua: Vicente N. Mendoza
- Coahuila: Carlos Garza Castro
- Colima: Gerardo Hurtado Sánchez
- Guanajuato: Jesús S. Soto (interim), Arturo Sierra (interim)
- Guerrero: Francisco Figueroa Mata
- Jalisco: José Guadalupe Zuno
- State of Mexico: Abundio Gómez
- Michoacán:
- Morelos: Alfredo Ortega; Amilcar Magaña; Ismael Velazco[2]
- Nayarit: Pascual Villanueva Paredes
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca: Manuel García Vigil
- Puebla:
- Querétaro: Julián Malo Juvera
- San Luis Potosí: Aurelio Manrique De Lara
- Sinaloa: Ángel Flores
- Sonora: Alejo Bay
- Tabasco: Tomás Garrido Canabal
- Tamaulipas: Benecio López Padilla/Pelayo Quintana/Candelario Garza/Gregorio Garza Salinas
- Veracruz: Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (until November 30); Heriberto Jara Corona (from December 1)
- Yucatán: Felipe Carrillo Puerto/José María Iturralde Traconis
- Zacatecas:
- The federal government reports that troops loyal to President Álvaro Obregón have defeated rebels led by Adolfo de la Huerta near Zacualpan.[3]
- February 5 – Anti-government rebels retreat from Veracruz when federal troops are victorious at Córdoba.[4]
- February 7 – Former president and rebel leader Adolfo de la Huerta escapes by boat to Mérida, Yucatán, after federal troops recapture Veracruz.[5]
- February 10 – Federal troops decisively defeat rebels at Ocotlán.[6]
- February 15 – Grupo Sonido 13, directed by Julián Carrillo, holds the first concert of microtonal music in Mexico City.
- February 24 – Federal troops defeat rebels in the oil region of Tamaulipas.[7]
- Land belonging to Mexican President-elect Plutarco Elías Calles is expropriated in accordance with agrarian laws.[8]
- January 16 – Katy Jurado, actress (died 2002)[9]
- February 29 – Agustín Hernández Navarro, architect and sculptor (died 2022)[10]
- March 13 — Raúl Córdoba, international footballer (died 2017)
- June 26 – Juan Gómez, footballer (died 2009)
- November 13 — Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, physician and politician (died 2018)
- January 3 — Felipe Carrillo Puerto, journalist, politician and revolutionary (born 1874)[11]
- June 10 — Salvador Alvarado, politician and soldier (born 1880)[12]
- Krauze, Enrique, Mexico: Biography of Power. New York: HarperCollins 1997. ISBN 0-06-016325-9 Pages 398-401.
- "Gobernadores" [Governors]. Morelos.gob.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved June 16, 2019.
- Cornyn, John (January 2, 1924). "Mexico Rebels Trap 2,000 Men, Battle 2 Days". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
- "Mexican Rebel Forces Beaten; Quit Vera Cruz". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 6, 1924. p. 1.
- "Mexican Rebel Chief and Staff Reach Yucatán". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 8, 1924. p. 2.
- "Obregon Wins in Big Battle Against Rebels". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 11, 1924. p. 1.
- Cornyn, John (February 25, 1924). "Obregon Troops Rout Rebels at "Cave of Devil"". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 4.
- Neumeier, Frederick (November 11, 1924). "Mexicans Seize Land of Calles, New President". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 18.
- Gary D. Keller (1997). A Biographical Handbook of Hispanics and United States Film. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-927534-65-9.
- Margarita Tortajada Quiroz: Amalia Hernández: audacia y fuerza creativa (Spanish)
- "Historia Biografía y Geografía de México: Felipe Carrillo Puerto" (in Spanish). Porrúa. Archived from the original on 22 January 2012.
- James C Carey (12 June 2019). The Mexican Revolution In Yucatan, 1915-1924. Taylor & Francis. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-00-030331-5.