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Events relating to mexico
Conservatives seize Mexico City at the start of a civil war against the Liberal government
The Liberals recover Mexico City and elect Benito Juarez as president
Benito Juarez, president of a bankrupt Mexico, suspends interest payment on the nation's foreign debt
A joint French, Spanish and British force lands in Mexico and captures Veracruz, ostensibly to collect the interest on European debts
The French capture Mexico City and President Juarez flees to the north
The French arrange for the coronation of the Austrian archduke Maximilian as emperor of Mexico
Napoleon III withdraws French troops from Mexico, leaving the emperor Maximilian in a dangerous situation
Maximilian, the emperor of Mexico, and two of his generals are shot after being surrounded and captured at Querétaro
An armed uprising against Spanish rule takes place in the town of Lares in Puerto Rico, becoming known as the Grito de Lares ('Cry of Lares')
Cattle-rustler William H. Bonney becomes known as Billy the Kid in his brief and murderous career of crime in New Mexico
The US consul in Mexico, Edward Herbert Thompson, begins a very profitable excavation at the Mayan site of Chichén Itzá
George McJunkin, near Folsom in New Mexico, sees the bones of an extinct giant bison, partially exposed after a flash flood, with an ancient spear point embedded in the skeleton
A revolution begins in Mexico that will last ten years before being resolved
Emiliano Zapata leads peasant groups in the Mexican revolution, under the slogan 'Land and Liberty'
New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the United States of America
A deciphered telegram, from the German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann, inflames US public opinion by promising Texas and more to Mexico
Ten years of violent revolution in Mexico are brought to and end in a successful coup by Alvaro Obregón
Diego Rivera, returning from his study of Italian frescoes, begins the first of his influential murals depicting Mexican history
Mysterious German author B. Traven writes a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, about three Americans searching for a lost gold mine in Mexico
Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin
Plutarco Calles establishes the National Revolutionary Party that will hold power in Mexico, under different names, for the rest of the century
An American Indian teenager, Ridgely Whiteman, finds the remains of a butchered mammoth near Clovis in New Mexico - first evidence of the Clovis culture
US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico
19-year-old Mexican poet Octavio Paz publishes his first collection, Wild Moon
Mexico, newly rich from oil, nationalizes the holdings of the foreign oil companies
