1916 in Mexico

Events from the year 1916 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Venustiano Carranza

Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Campeche: Joaquín Mucel Acereto
• Chiapas: José Ascención González/Blas Corral/Pablo Villanueva
• Chihuahua: Arnulfo González
• Coahuila: Bruno Neyra/Alfredo Breceda/Gustavo Espinoza Mireles
• Colima: Interim Governors
• Durango:
• Guanajuato: Fernando Dávila
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco: Manuel M. Diéguez/Emiliano Degollado
• State of Mexico: Pascual Morales y Molina/Rafael Cepeda
• Michoacán: Alfredo Elizondo
• Morelos: Lorenzo Vázquez/Dionisio Carreón
• Nayarit: José Santos Godínez
• Nuevo León: Nicéforo Zambrano
• Oaxaca: Juan Jiménez Méndez
• Puebla:
• Querétaro: Federico Montes
• San Luis Potosí: Juan G. Barragán Rodríguez
• Sinaloa: Ramón F. Iturbe
• Sonora: Plutarco Elías Calles
• Tabasco: Joaquín Ruiz/Luis Hernández Hermosillo/Heriberto Jara Corona
• Tamaulipas: Alfredo Ricaut/Andrés Osuna
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán: Salvador Alvarado Rubio
• Zacatecas:

Events

• March 9 – Battle of Columbus
• March 29 – Battle of Guerrero
• April 12 – Battle of Parral
• May 5 – Glenn Springs Raid
• June 15 – San Ygnacio Raid
• June 21 – Battle of Carrizal

Births

• February 14
• Juan Celada Salmón, engineer (Ternium) and inventor (Proceso HYL) (d. 2017)
• Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, Governor of Sinaloa 1963–1968 (d. 1989)
• April 11 — Armando León Bejarano, governor of Morelos (1976-1982) (d. 2016)
• June 12 – Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-born American politician (Democratic Party), governor of Arizona, diplomat, and judge (d. April 10, 2015).

Deaths

• January 13 – Victoriano Huerta, 35th President of Mexico (b. 1850)
• April 16 — Amador Salazar was a leader of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution (b. 1868)

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