1929 in Mexico
Events from the year '''1929 in Mexico'''
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Emilio Portes Gil
- Interior Secretary : Felipe Canales
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
- Communications Secretary : Javier Sánchez Mejorada
- Education Secretary : Ezequiel Padilla
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Manuel Carpio Velázquez
- Campeche: Ramiro Bojórquez Castillo
- Chiapas: : Raymundo E. Enríquez, Ernesto Constantino Herrera, Alvaro Cancino
- Chihuahua: 1928 - 1929: Marcelo Caraveo, Luis L. León, Francisco R. Almada, Luis L. León, Francisco R. Almada
- Coahuila: Manuel Pérez Treviño, :es:Nazario S. Ortiz Garza
- Colima: Laureano Cervantes
- Durango:
- Guanajuato: Agustín Arroyo
- Guerrero: Adrián Castrejón
- Hidalgo: Matías Rodríguez, Bartolomé Vargas Lugo
- Jalisco: Margarito Ramírez, José María Cuellar
- State of Mexico: Carlos Riva Palacio,, Filiberto Gómez
- Michoacán: : Lázaro Cárdenas, Dámaso Cárdenas del Río
- Morelos: Ambrosio Puente
- Nayarit: José de la Peña Ledón
- Nuevo León: Plutarco Elías Calles (son), National Revolutionary Party, PNR, Generoso Chapa Garza,, Aarón Sáenz,
- Oaxaca: Francisco López Cortés
- Puebla: Donato Bravo Izquierdo, Leónides Andrew Almazán
- Querétaro: Abraham Araujo, Ángel Vázquez Mellado, Ramón Anaya
- San Luis Potosí: Saturnino Cedillo
- Sinaloa: Macario Gaxiola
- Sonora: Fausto Topete, Francisco S. Elías
- Tabasco: vacant
- Tamaulipas: Juan Rincón, Baudelio Villanueva, Francisco Castellanos
- Tlaxcala: Ignacio Mendoza, Adrián Vázquez Sánchez
- Veracruz: Adalberto Tejeda Olivares
- Yucatán: Álvaro Torre Díaz
- Zacatecas: Leobardo C. Ruiz
Events
- March 3 – Escobar Rebellion: A revolt by Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre, challenging the power of Plutarco Elías Calles, ends in failure.
- June 21 – Cristero War: The Mexican government and Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flóres sign an agreement which allowed worship to resume in Mexico and granted three concessions to the Catholics, bringing an end to the Cristero War.
- November 17 – 1929 Mexican presidential election: Pascual Ortiz Rubio of the National Revolutionary Party is elected the new President. It is now widely thought that the election was rigged.
Ongoing
Births
- January 4 – Aldo Monti, actor
- February 24 – Modesta Lavana, healer and activist for indigenous rights in Hueyapan
- March 24 – Ángela Gurría, sculptor
- April 5 – Vicente García Bernal, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón.
- April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, actress
- July 28 – José Solé, stage actor and director
- August 20 – Carlos Ancira, film actor
- October 17 — Sergio Chávez Saldaña, Chihuahua surgeon and teacher.
- November 18 — Francisco Savín, composer and director of Xalapa Symphony Orchestra ;.
- Date unknown — Adela Peralta Leppe, actress, first female clown in Mexico
Deaths
- 10 January – Julio Antonio Mella, activist
- March 20 – Miguel Alemán González, general
Date unknown
- Benigno Montoya Muñoz, architect, sculptor and painter