Shifting Power in the Mexican Revolution

                                                           

In Power                      Opposition

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Pre-Revolution              Porfirio Díaz                Fr. Madero (d. 1913)

(1906-1911)

Magonistas (PLM)

Villa

First Phase                   Fr. Madero                               Pascual Orozco

(1911-1913)    

                                    (Victoriano Huerta)                 

FelixDíaz

(nephewof Porfirio)

Bernardo Reyes

(Porfirian General)

Emiliano Zapata

Second Phase (1913-1914)               Huerta              Villa (Chihuahua)

Zapata (Morelos)

Carranza (Coahuila)

Obregón (Sonora)

Third Phase (July 1914- 1919)          Constitutionalists                   Conventionists

Nobody in central power 1915             Carranza                                   Villa (d. 1923)

(Obregón)

Zapata (d.1919)                               

E. Gutiérrez

(Prov. Pres.)

Fourth Phase (1920)                          Obregón                                   Carranza (d. 1920)


MEXICAN REVOLUTION CHRONOLOGY

1876-1911        Díaz Regime- Porfiriato

1905                 Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) formed by Magón brothers

1906                 Strike in Cananea, Sonora; PLM program

1907-8              Strike at Rio Blanco Textile Mills, Orizaba, Veracruz

1908                 Creelman Interview with Díaz

1910                 Francisco Madero's candidacy for Anti-Relelectionist Party

Sept. 15            Díaz celebrates Centenary of Independence

Oct.                 Plan de San Luis declared

1911     May      Treaty of Cd. Juarez; Díaz sails for Europe

Oct.      Madero elected First President

Nov.     Plan de Ayala

1913     Feb.      Huerta Coup; Madero assassinated (Ten Tragic Days)

                        Anti-Huerta forces organizing (Carranza, Villa, Zapata, Obregón)

1914     Apr.-Nov.       US Invades Veracruz

            July                  Huerta resigns, Carranza in power in Mexico DF

Oct.                 Convention in Aguascalientes; Conventionists vs. Constitutionalists

Dec.                 Zapatistas and Villistas take DF

1915                 Gutiérrez (Nuevo Léon), Zapata (Morelos), Villa (Chihuahua), Carranza (Veracruz).   All claimed power in their regions.

1916                 Villa attacks Columbus NM; Pershing Punitive Expedition

1917                 Mexican Constitution; Carranza elected President

1919                 Zapata killed in ambush by Carrancistas

1920                 Carranza killed, Obregon takes power, Villa gets hacienda (killed 1923)