Portal:Mexico/July in the history of Mexico


 * July 29, 615 - Pacal the Great becomes ajaw of Palenque.
 * July 1, 1520 - La Noche Triste, Hernán Cortés and his men flee Tenochitlan.
 * July 17, 1566 - Bartolomé de las Casas dies.
 * July 26, 1847 - The Caste War erutps in Yucatán.
 * July 5, 1858, - Valentín Gómez Farías dies.
 * July 15, 1867 - The republic is restored as the Second Mexican Empire collapses.
 * July 18, 1872 - Benito Juárez dies.
 * July 6, 1907 - Frida Kahlo is born.
 * July 23, 1923 - Pancho Villa is assassinated in Parral, Chihuahua, in his car.
 * July 27, 1928 - In the restaurant La Bombilla, Álvaro Obregón is assassinated by a catholic fanatic.
 * July 6, 1988 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari wins the presidential elections that are widely considered to be fraudulent.
 * July 2, 2000 - Vicente Fox is elected president, the first non PRI-candidate to do so since 1929.
 * July 24, 2005 - Tropical Storm Gert makes landfall near Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico with 45 mph winds.