# 1920 in Mexico

Events in the year 1920 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Venustiano Carranza until May 21, Vacant until June 1, Adolfo de la Huerta until November 30, Álvaro Obregón from December 1
* Secretary of War and Navy: Benjamín G. Hill
* Secretary of the Interior: Gilberto Valenzuela, José Inociencio Lugo, Plutarco Elias Calles from December 1

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Aurelio L. González/Rafael Arellano Valle
* Campeche: Enrique Arias Solís/Eduardo Arceo Zumárraga/Gonzalo Sales Guerrero
* Chiapas: Pascual Morales Molina/Tiburcio Fernández Ruíz
* Chihuahua: Andrés Ortiz/Ignacio C. Enríquez
* Coahuila: Gustavo Espinoza Mireles
* Colima: Miguel Álvarez García
* Durango:
* Guanajuato: Federico Montes/Toribio Villaseñor/Agustín de Ezcurdia/Antonio Madrazo/Enrique Colunga
* Guerrero: Francisco Figueroa Mata
* Hidalgo:
* Jalisco: Ignacio Ramos Praslow/Francisco Labastida Izquierdo
* State of Mexico:
* Michoacán:
* Morelos:
* Nayarit: Francisco D. Santiago/Fernando S. Ibarra/Salvador Arriola Valdés/José Santos Godínez
* Nuevo León: José E. Santos/Humberto Barros/Felix G. Lozano/Porfirio G. González
* Oaxaca: Manuel García Vigil
* Puebla: Alfonso Cabrera Lobato/Rafael Rojas/Luis Sánchez Pontón
* Querétaro: Salvador Argain Domínguez/Fernando N. Villarreal/Rómulo de la Torre/José M. Truchuelo
* San Luis Potosí: Severino Martínez Gómez/Rafael Nieto Compéan
* Sinaloa: Ramón F. Iturbe/Ángel Flores
* Sonora: Adolfo de la Huerta
* Tabasco: Carlos Greene Ramírez
* Tamaulipas: Francisco González Villarreal/Rafael Cárdenas/Emilio Portes Gil/Federico Martínez Rojas/José Morante
* Tlaxcala:
* Veracruz: Cándido Aguilar Vargas/Adalberto Tejeda Olivares
* Yucatán:
* Zacatecas:

## Events

* January 3: The 7.8 M$_s$  Veracruz earthquake affected the eastern part of the country with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X–XII. Between 648 and 4,000 were killed and 167 were injured.
* April 23: Mexican Revolution: Plan of Agua Prieta is proclaimed; rebellion against Venustiano Carranza commences.
* May 21: Mexican Revolution: President Venustiano Carranza is assassinated while sleeping in Tlaxcalantongo in the Sierra Norte de Puebla mountains after fleeing Mexico City and heading towards Veracruz.
* June 1: Adolfo de la Huerta becomes provisional president.
* September 5: 1920 Mexican general election: Álvaro Obregón defeats Alfredo Robles Domínguez.
* December 1: Álvaro Obregón becomes president after winning the federal election which brings an end to the Mexican Revolution and has the first stable presidency since the revolution began.

## Popular culture
### Film

* Hasta después de la muerte
* El Zarco or Los Plateados

### Literature
## Notable births

* January 14 – Chava Flores, musical chronicler Álbum de Oro de la Canción and composer (Dos horas de balazos and La tertulia) (d. August 5, 1987)
* February 13 – Carlos Quintero Arce, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Hermosillo (1968–1996)
* April 20 – José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Coahuila 1981–1987 (d. 2011)
* June 16 – José López Portillo, president of Mexico (1970–1976)
* July 29 – Rodolfo Acosta, television actor
* November 25 – Ricardo Montalbán, actor (died 2009)

## Notable deaths

* May 21 – President Venustiano Carranza (b. 1859) is assassinated by Rodolfo Herrero.
* June 2 – Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, archaeologist and archbishop of Monterrey, 1911–1920 (b. 1856)
* December 14 – Gen. Benjamín Hill, Secretary of War, dies in suspicious circumstances. (b. 1877)