# 1985 in Mexico

Events in the year 1985 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Miguel de la Madrid
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Daniel Díaz Díaz
* Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
* Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
* Secretary of Welfare: Guillermo Carrillo Arena
* Secretary of Public Education: Jesús Reyes Heroles/Miguel González Avelar
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
* Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI)
* Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
* Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot/Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
* Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
* Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas/Saúl González Herrera
* Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
* Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
* Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco/José Ramírez Gamero
* Guanajuato: Agustín Téllez Cruces/Rafael Corrales Ayala
* Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
* Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
* Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
* State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
* Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
* Morelos: Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI).
* Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
* Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez/Jorge Treviño
* Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
* Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
* Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
* Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
* San Luis Potosí: Florencio Salazar Martínez
* Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
* Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
* Tabasco: Enrique González Pedrero
* Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
* Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
* Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
* Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
* Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
* Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

## Events

* January 1, Querétaro state elections
* June 17, Morelos I was the first communications satellite launch by Mexico.
* July 7, state elections in Colima
* September 19, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck in Mexico City.
* The LIII Legislature Congress of Mexico begins its inauguration.
* November 26, on the STS-61-B mission Rodolfo Neri Vela became the first Mexican and second Latin American astronaut to reach into space.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Lavalle Urbina

## Notable births

* September 19 – Fourteen newborn babies survived the earthquake.
* October 6 – Sandra Góngora, ten-pin bowler
* October 15 – Sherlyn González, singer and actress.
* December 11 – Karla Souza, Mexican-American actress.
* Date unknown – Ricardo Domínguez, welterweight wrestler (d. 2017).

## Notable deaths

* An estimated 10,000 people died during the September 19 earthquake.

## Sports

* Mexico managed to win for the first time to Poland on 5 February when at the opening of Corregidora Stadium in Querétaro.