1920 in Mexico

Template:Short description Template:Year in Mexico 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

• January 3: The 7.8 Template:M 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

Film

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

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)