1916 in Mexico

Events from the year 1916 in Mexico.

← 1915 1914 1913 1916 in Mexico → 1917 1918 1919
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Venustiano Carranza^[1]

Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Campeche: Joaquín Mucel Acereto
• Chiapas: José Ascención González/Blas Corral/Pablo Villanueva
• Chihuahua: Arnulfo González
• Coahuila: Bruno Neyra/Alfredo Breceda/Gustavo Espinoza Mireles
• Colima: Interim Governors
• Durango:
• Guanajuato: Fernando Dávila
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco: Manuel M. Diéguez/Emiliano Degollado
• State of Mexico: Pascual Morales y Molina/Rafael Cepeda
• Michoacán: Alfredo Elizondo
• Morelos: Lorenzo Vázquez/Dionisio Carreón
• Nayarit: José Santos Godínez
• Nuevo León: Nicéforo Zambrano
• Oaxaca: Juan Jiménez Méndez
• Puebla:
• Querétaro: Federico Montes
• San Luis Potosí: Juan G. Barragán Rodríguez
• Sinaloa: Ramón F. Iturbe
• Sonora: Plutarco Elías Calles
• Tabasco: Joaquín Ruiz/Luis Hernández Hermosillo/Heriberto Jara Corona
• Tamaulipas: Alfredo Ricaut/Andrés Osuna
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán: Salvador Alvarado Rubio
• Zacatecas:

Events

• March 9 – Battle of Columbus^[2]
• March 29 – Battle of Guerrero^[3]
• April 12 – Battle of Parral^[4]
• May 5 – Glenn Springs Raid^[5]
• June 15 – San Ygnacio Raid^[6]
• June 21 – Battle of Carrizal^[7]

Births

• February 14
  • Juan Celada Salmón, engineer (Ternium) and inventor (Proceso HYL) (d. 2017)
  • Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, Governor of Sinaloa 1963–1968 (d. 1989)
• April 11 — Armando León Bejarano, governor of Morelos (1976-1982) (d. 2016)
• June 12 – Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-born American politician (Democratic Party), governor of Arizona, diplomat, and judge (d. April 10, 2015).

Deaths

• January 13 – Victoriano Huerta, 35th President of Mexico (b. 1850)^[8]
• April 16 — Amador Salazar was a leader of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution (b. 1868)^[9]

Notes

• Beede, Benjamin R. (1994). The War of 1898, and U.S. Interventions, 1898-1934: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 218. ISBN 9780824056247.