1846 in Mexico

Events in the year 1846 in Mexico.

Incumbents

• President – Mariano Paredes
• President – José Mariano Salas
• President – Valentín Gómez Farías

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Felipe Nieto y del Portillo/Felipe Cosio
• Chiapas: Jerónimo Cardona
• Chihuahua: Ángel Trías Álvarez/Mauricio Ugarte/Cayetano Justiniani/José María Irigoyen Rodríguez/Ángel Trías Álvarez
• Coahuila: Rafael Vázquez/José María de Aguirre González/Santiago Rodríguez del Bosquea
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Jalisco: Antonio Escobedo/Juan Nepomuceno Cumplido/José María Yáñez/Joaquín Angulo
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Nuevo León: Pedro de Ampudia
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro: Julián Juvera
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas: Juan Martin de la Garza Flores/Manuel Núñez Ponce/Manuel Saldaña/Francisco Vital Fernandez
• Veracruz: Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora/José de Emparán/Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora
• Yucatán: Miguel Barbachano
• Zacatecas:

Events

• April 25 – Mexican–American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas's boundaries.
• May 8 – Mexican–American War – Battle of Palo Alto: Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande at Palo Alto, Texas, in the first major battle of the war.
• May 9 – Mexican–American War – Battle of Resaca de la Palma in Brownsville, Texas
• May 13 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
• June 10 – Mexican–American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.
• June 14 – Bear Flag Revolt: American settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
• July 7 – Acting on instructions from Washington, DC, Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.
• August 6 – José Mariano Salas assumes the presidency as provisional president.
• August 22 – President Salas decrees the 1824 Constitution of Mexico in effect again.
• September 21–24 – Battle of Monterrey

Notable births

• May 22 – Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, teacher, poet and activist (d. 1908)

References