1919 in Mexico

Events in the year 1919 in Mexico.

← 1918 1917 1916 1919 in Mexico → 1920 1921 1922
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Venustiano Carranza

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Aurelio L. González
• Campeche: Joaquín Mucel Acereto/Enrique Arias Solís
• Chiapas: Pablo Villanueva/Manuel Fuentes A./Pascual Morales Molina
• Chihuahua: Melquiades Angulo/Andrés Ortiz
• Coahuila: Gustavo Espinoza Mireles
• Colima: Interim Governors
• Durango:
• Guanajuato: Agustín Alcocer/Federico Montes
• Guerrero: Francisco Figueroa Mata
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco: Luis Castellanos y Tapia
• State of Mexico: Joaquín García Luna/Agustín Millán Vivero/Francisco Javier Gaxiola
• Michoacán:
• Morelos: José G. Aguilar/Benito Tajonar
• Nayarit: Francisco D. Santiago
• Nuevo León: Nicéforo Zambrano/José E. Santos
• Oaxaca: Juan Jiménez Méndez
• Puebla: Alfonso Cabrera Lobato
• Querétaro: Salvador Argain Domínguez
• San Luis Potosí: Juan G. Barragán Rodríguez/Severino Martínez Gómez
• Sinaloa: Ramón F. Iturbe
• Sonora: Plutarco Elías Calles/Adolfo de la Huerta
• Tabasco: Heriberto Jara Corona/Carlos A. Vidal/Carlos Greene Ramírez
• Tamaulipas: Francisco González Villarreal
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz: Cándido Aguilar Vargas
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

Events

• 10 April: Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and assassinated in Chinameca, Morelos.
• 25 May: Francisco "Pancho" Villa takes the town of Parral, Chihuahua, and hangs the mayor.
• June: Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, attacked in Pancho Villa's final raid

Popular culture

Notable births

• 15 March – Piratita Morgan (Raymundo Rodríguez), wrestler (d. 2018)
• 1 April – Antonio Toledo Corro, Governor of Sinaloa 1981–1986 (d. 2018)
• 16 April – Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, architect (Museo Nacional de Antropología).
• 17 May – Antonio Aguilar, singer/actor.
• 29 June – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, cardinal (d. 2008)
• 2 October – José Ángel Espinoza, singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2015)
• Date unknown
  • Romeo Gómez Aguilar (97), músician and academic (d. 2019).

Notable deaths

• 10 April – Emiliano Zapata, (39), southern leader of the Mexican Revolution, assassinated (b. 1879)
• 9 November – Virginia Salinas de Carranza, wife of President Venustiano Carranza
• 26 November – Felipe Ángeles, executed after a court-martial.