1846 in Mexico

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Map of Texas, Oregon, and California in 1846

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: Ángel Trías Álvarez/Mauricio Ugarte/Cayetano Justiniani/José María Irigoyen Rodríguez/Ángel Trías Álvarez
• 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

Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma

September 21–24: Battle of Monterrey (Mexican–American War).

• April 25 – Mexican–American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas's 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, DC, Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.
• August 6 – José Mariano Salas assumes the presidency as provisional president.
• August 22 – President Salas decrees 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

1. 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.
2. Rivera Cambas, Manuel (1873). Los Gobernantes de Mexico: Tomo II (in Spanish). J.M. Aguilar Cruz. p. 304.
3. "RITA CETINA GUTIÉRREZ" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-23.