1985 in Mexico

Events in the year 1985 in Mexico.

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.