Timeline of the Mexican Revolution
1876 – 1910: Porfirio Diaz is president (causes of fall: economic recession/US depression, food crisis/crop failures, workers’ strikes, agitation of middle class reformers, dissatisfaction of large landholders/capitalists)
1910: Francisco Madero (reformer, not revolutionary) attempts presidency, Diaz arrests him and he flees to Texas
1910: Written in jail and published in Texas, Madero created the Plan of San Luis Potosi, assuming provisional presidency, calling for free elections, and vaguely referring to return of peasant land taken by rich. (These land reform policies attracted Emiliano Zapata to him)
1911: Treaty of Ciudad Juarez, stating that Diaz is removed but his institutions are not, hostilities are ended, provisional president is placed
1911: Pancho Villa organizing army of middle-/working-classers and building schools (wanted education for the next generation) in the north, Zapata organizing poor peasants wanting their land back in the south
1911: Madero is elected; Zapata quickly becomes disillusioned with him, writes Plan of Ayala, stating that foreign owned lands would be seized, ejidos (communal lands) previously taken from peasants would be returned, and 1/3 of land held by “friendly” hacendados taken for redistribution
1911 – 1913: Madero is president; US dislikes him because he levies oil taxes. People don’t like him because he doesn’t follow through on most of his promises
1913: Victoriano Huerta, Madero’s military commander, stages a coup d’état (La Decena Tragica) with the help of US ambassador Henry Lane Wilson and becomes president through an agreement (he will be president until Diaz is reelected, at which point he will return to being military commander)
1913 – 1914: Huerta is president; rules with a terrorist regime
1913: Carranza writes Plan de Guadalupe, refusing to acknowledge Huerta as president
1914: Tampico Incident, in which USS Dolphin docks in restricted zone. Sailors are arrested then released with
1910: Francisco Madero (reformer, not revolutionary) attempts presidency, Diaz arrests him and he flees to Texas
1910: Written in jail and published in Texas, Madero created the Plan of San Luis Potosi, assuming provisional presidency, calling for free elections, and vaguely referring to return of peasant land taken by rich. (These land reform policies attracted Emiliano Zapata to him)
1911: Treaty of Ciudad Juarez, stating that Diaz is removed but his institutions are not, hostilities are ended, provisional president is placed
1911: Pancho Villa organizing army of middle-/working-classers and building schools (wanted education for the next generation) in the north, Zapata organizing poor peasants wanting their land back in the south
1911: Madero is elected; Zapata quickly becomes disillusioned with him, writes Plan of Ayala, stating that foreign owned lands would be seized, ejidos (communal lands) previously taken from peasants would be returned, and 1/3 of land held by “friendly” hacendados taken for redistribution
1911 – 1913: Madero is president; US dislikes him because he levies oil taxes. People don’t like him because he doesn’t follow through on most of his promises
1913: Victoriano Huerta, Madero’s military commander, stages a coup d’état (La Decena Tragica) with the help of US ambassador Henry Lane Wilson and becomes president through an agreement (he will be president until Diaz is reelected, at which point he will return to being military commander)
1913 – 1914: Huerta is president; rules with a terrorist regime
1913: Carranza writes Plan de Guadalupe, refusing to acknowledge Huerta as president
1914: Tampico Incident, in which USS Dolphin docks in restricted zone. Sailors are arrested then released with