1936 in Mexico

Events in the year 1936 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Lázaro Cárdenas
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Silvestre Guerrero
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Eduardo Hay
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Francisco J. Múgica
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Manuel Ávila Camacho

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena/Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
 * Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
 * Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales/Efraín A. Gutiérrez
 * Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
 * Coahuila: Jesús Valdez Sánchez
 * Colima: Miguel G. Santa Ana
 * Durango: Enrique R. Calderón
 * Guanajuato: José Inocente Lugo
 * Guerrero: José Inocente Lugo
 * Hidalgo: Ernesto Viveros
 * Jalisco: Everardo Topete
 * State of Mexico: Eucario López
 * Michoacán: Rafael Ordorica/Gildardo Magaña
 * Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
 * Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
 * Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez/Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo
 * Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo/Constantino Chapital
 * Puebla: Gustavo Ariza
 * Querétaro: Ramón Rodríguez Familiar
 * San Luis Potosí: Mateo Fernández Netro
 * Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
 * Sonora: Ramón Ramos
 * Tabasco: Víctor Fernández Manero
 * Tamaulipas: Enrique Canseco
 * Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla
 * Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Valdés
 * Yucatán: Fernando Cárdenas/Florencio Palomo Valencia
 * Zacatecas: Matías Ramos

Sports

 * Mexico wins a total of three bronze medals at the Summer Olympics.

Film

 * Allá en el Rancho Grande, directed by Fernando de Fuentes and starring Tito Guízar and Esther Fernández; beginning of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema

Births

 * 6 January – Rubén Amaro Sr., Mexican professional baseball player (d. 2017)
 * 23 February — Manuel Bartlett, politician (PRI)
 * 8 March – Mario Hernández, film director and screenwriter
 * 15 April – José Becerra, boxer
 * 23 April — Víctor Cervera Pacheco, politician (PRI); Governor of Yucatán 1984–1988 and 1995–2001 (d. 2004)
 * 8 May – Víctor Yturbe, singer (died 1987)
 * 19 September – Juliana González Valenzuela, Mexican philosopher
 * 8 October – Rogelio Guerra, actor (d. 2018)
 * 27 October – Enrique Canales, technologist, editor, political analyst, painter, and sculptor (died 2007)
 * Date unknown
 * Mario Stern, composer and académic (d. 2017).

Deaths

 * 19 May – Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Archbishop of Mexico City (born 1876; colitis)