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| 1992 |
| | All the Pretty Horses is the first volume of US author Cormac McCarthy's trilogy set in Mexico | |
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| 1994 |
| | Mayan Indians in Chiapas rebel in an armed uprising against the Mexican government | |
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| 1994 |
| | Two leading members of Mexico's ruling party, Luis Donaldo Colosio and José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, are assassinated | |
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| 1994 |
| | A devaluation of the Mexican peso leads to a sudden collapse in the local stock market | |
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| 1997 |
| | Mexico's ruling party, the PRI, loses control of the lower house for the first time in nearly seventy years | |
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| 2000 |
| | Vicente Fox wins the presidential election in Mexico (the first time that an opposition politician has done so since 1911) | |
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| 2009 June 11 |
| | The World Health Organization declares that "swine flu" (strain H1N1, spreading from Mexico), has reached the status of a pandemic | |
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| 2010 April 20 |
| | An explosion destroys BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killing eleven people and starting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico | |
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| 2010 July 15 |
| | BP announces that a newly fitted cap has finally stopped the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico | |
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