1920 in Mexico

Decades:	1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s;
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Events in the year 1920 in Mexico.

Incumbents

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.

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)^[1]
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)

May 21 – President Venustiano Carranza (b. 1859) is assassinated by Rodolfo Herrero.^[2]
June 2 – Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, archaeologist and archbishop of Monterrey, 1911–1920 (b. 1856)^[3]
December 14 – Gen. Benjamín Hill, Secretary of War, dies in suspicious circumstances. (b. 1877)^[4]

^ A cien años del natalicio de Chava Flores, el cronista musical La Jornada, 14 Jan 2020
^ "Venustiano Carranza" (in Spanish). La Historia de Mexico. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
^ "Michoacán en la colección de Francisco Plancarte" [Michoacán in the collection of Francisco Plancarte] (in Spanish). Museo Nacional de Antropologia. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
^ "General de División: BENJAMIN G. HILL (1877-1920)" [Division General: BENJAMIN G. HILL (1877-1920)] (in Spanish). SEDENA. Retrieved May 29, 2019.