1924 in Mexico

The following lists events that happened in 1924 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Álvaro Obregón (until 30 November); Plutarco Elías Calles (from 1 December)
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Romeo Ortega
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Aarón Sáenz Garza
• Communications Secretary (SCT):
• Education Secretary (SEP):

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Victorino Medina
• Campeche: Ángel Castillo Lanz
• Chiapas: Rogelio García Castro
• Chihuahua: Vicente N. Mendoza
• Coahuila: Carlos Garza Castro
• Colima: Gerardo Hurtado Sánchez
• Guanajuato: Jesús S. Soto (interim), Arturo Sierra (interim)
• Guerrero: Francisco Figueroa Mata
• Jalisco: José Guadalupe Zuno
• State of Mexico: Abundio Gómez
• Michoacán: Sidronio Sánchez Pineda then Enrique Ramírez Aviña
• Morelos: Alfredo Ortega; Amilcar Magaña; Ismael Velazco
• Nayarit: Pascual Villanueva Paredes
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca: Manuel García Vigil
• Puebla:
• Querétaro: Julián Malo Juvera
• San Luis Potosí: Aurelio Manrique De Lara
• Sinaloa: Ángel Flores
• Sonora: Alejo Bay
• Tabasco: Tomás Garrido Canabal
• Tamaulipas: Benecio López Padilla/Pelayo Quintana/Candelario Garza/Gregorio Garza Salinas
• Veracruz: Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (until November 30); Heriberto Jara Corona (from December 1)
• Yucatán: Felipe Carrillo Puerto/José María Iturralde Traconis
• Zacatecas: Felipe Carrillo Puerto/Juan Ricárdez Broca/Miguel Cantón (acting)/José María Iturralde Traconis

Events

• The federal government reports that troops loyal to President Álvaro Obregón have defeated rebels led by Adolfo de la Huerta near Zacualpan.
• February 5 – Anti-government rebels retreat from Veracruz when federal troops are victorious at Córdoba.
• February 7 – Former president and rebel leader Adolfo de la Huerta escapes by boat to Mérida, Yucatán, after federal troops recapture Veracruz.
• February 10 – Federal troops decisively defeat rebels at Ocotlán.
• February 15 – Grupo Sonido 13, directed by Julián Carrillo, holds the first concert of microtonal music in Mexico City.
• February 24 – Federal troops defeat rebels in the oil region of Tamaulipas.
• Land belonging to Mexican President-elect Plutarco Elías Calles is expropriated in accordance with agrarian laws.

Births

• January 16 – Katy Jurado, actress (died 2002)
• February 29 – Agustín Hernández Navarro, architect and sculptor (died 2022)
• March 13 — Raúl Córdoba, international footballer (died 2017)
• June 26 – Juan Gómez, footballer (died 2009)
• November 13 — Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, physician and politician (died 2018)

Deaths

• January 3 — Felipe Carrillo Puerto, journalist, politician and revolutionary (born 1874)
• June 10 — Salvador Alvarado, politician and soldier (born 1880)

References