1848 in Mexico

Events in the year 1848 in Mexico.

Incumbents

 * President – Pedro María de Anaya
 * President – Manuel de la Peña y Peña
 * President – José Joaquín de Herrera

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Felipe Cosio
 * Chiapas: Manuel María Parada/Jerónimo Cardona/Ponciano Solórzano del Barco/Fernando Nicolás Maldonado
 * Chihuahua:
 * Coahuila: Eduardo González Laso
 * Durango:
 * Guanajuato:
 * Guerrero:
 * Jalisco:
 * State of Mexico:
 * Michoacán:
 * Nuevo León: José María Parás
 * Oaxaca:
 * Puebla:
 * Querétaro: Francisco de Paula Mesa
 * San Luis Potosí:
 * Sinaloa:
 * Sonora:
 * Tabasco:
 * Tamaulipas: Jesús de Cárdenas
 * Veracruz: Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora/José de Emparán/Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora
 * Yucatán:
 * Zacatecas:

Events

 * January 6 – Mexican General Antonio Gaona and his son are captured at the Battle of (sic)Napoluca (Nopalucan).
 * January 22 to February 14 – A failed Mexican siege of Siege of San José del Cabo
 * February 2 – Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest of that country.
 * March 16 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales in Chihuahua
 * March 31 – Lt. Col. Henry S. Burton defeated Mexican forces in Baja California Sur
 * May 30 – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo with the United States
 * Peralta massacre

Notable births

 * January 26 – Justo Sierra (writer)