1920 in Mexico

Events in the year 1920 in Mexico.

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 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.

Film

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

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)