1839 in Mexico

Incumbents

• President – Anastasio Bustamante until March 20, Antonio López de Santa Anna until July 10, Nicolás Bravo until July 19, Anastasio Bustamante

Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Chiapas: Salvador Ayanegui
• Chihuahua: Berardo Revilla/José María Irigoyen Rodríguez/Simón Elías González/José María Irigoyen de la O/José María Irigoyen Rodríguez/José María Irigoyen de la O
• Coahuila: Francisco García Conde/Isidro Reyes
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Jalisco: Antonio Escobedo
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Nuevo León: Joaquín García/Manuel María de Llano
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro: Ramón Covarrubias
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas: José Antonio Fernández Izaguirre/Jose Antonio Quintero
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

Events

• November 27, 1838 – March 9, 1839 – Pastry War
• May 2, 1839 – Santiago Imán heads a peasant revolt in the Yucatán.
• December 27, 1939 - The first Spanish envoy to independent Mexico, Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano arrived in Veracruz. His wife was Fanny Calderón de la Barca who wrote Life in Mexico, a well-known book about the couples' life from 1839 to 1843 in Mexico.

Notable births

• * May 25 Manuel Sánchez Mármol - writer, lawyer, politician, and a member of the Mexican Academy of Language was born in Cunduacán, Tabasco

Notable deaths

• May 3 José Antonio Mexía - politician executed in Acajete, Veracruz

Dates unknown

• José María Lanz - engineer and author, died in Paris
• Francisco María Ruiz - soldier and settler of San Diego, Alta California