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

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

An assassin sent by Stalin kills the exiled Trotsky in his home in Mexico City

Syntex, a small chemical company in Mexico City, develops the first oral contraceptive

20-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo sings his first major role, as Alfredo in La Traviata in the Mexican city of Monterrey

Mayan Indians in Chiapas rebel in an armed uprising against the Mexican government

Two leading members of Mexico's ruling party, Luis Donaldo Colosio and José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, are assassinated

A devaluation of the Mexican peso leads to a sudden collapse in the local stock market

Mexico's ruling party, the PRI, loses control of the lower house for the first time in nearly seventy years

Vicente Fox wins the presidential election in Mexico (the first time that an opposition politician has done so since 1911)

Hurricane Patricia becomes the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere with winds of 215 mph