1985 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel de la Madrid
• Interior Secretary : Manuel Bartlett Díaz
• Secretary of [Foreign Affairs |Secretary of Foreign Affairs] : Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
• Communications Secretary : Daniel Díaz Díaz
• Education Secretary : Manuel Bartlett
• Secretary of Defense : Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
• Secretary of Navy: Miguel [Ángel Gómez Ortega]
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Guillermo Carrillo Arena
• Secretary of Public Education: Jesús Reyes Heroles/Miguel González Avelar
• Tourism Secretary : Carlos Hank González
• Secretary of the Environment : Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Health : Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

  Governors

• Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
• Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera
• Baja California Sur|Baja California Sur]: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
• Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot/Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
• Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
• Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas/Saúl González Herrera
• Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
• Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
• Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco/José Ramírez Gamero
• Guanajuato: Agustín Téllez Cruces/Rafael Corrales Ayala
• Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
• Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
• State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
• Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
• Morelos: Lauro Ortega Martínez.
• Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
• Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez/Jorge Treviño
• Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
• Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
• Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
• Governor of [San Luis Potosí|San Luis Potosí]: Florencio Salazar Martínez
• Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
• Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
• Tabasco: Enrique González Pedrero
• Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
• Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
• Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
• Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
• Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
• Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

  Events

• January 1, Querétaro state elections
• June 17, Morelos I was the first communications satellite launch by Mexico.
• July 7, state elections in Colima
• September 19, a 1985 [Mexico City earthquake|magnitude 8.0 earthquake] struck in Mexico City.
• The LIII Legislature Congress of Mexico begins its inauguration.
• November 26, on the STS-61-B mission Rodolfo Neri Vela became the first Mexican and second Latin American astronaut to reach into space.

  Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Lavalle Urbina

  Notable births

• April 9 – Carlos Manzo, politician.
• May 31 – Zoraida Gómez, actress.
• September 19 – Fourteen newborn babies survived the earthquake.
• October 6 - Sandra Góngora, ten-pin bowler
• October 15 - Sherlyn González, singer and actress.
• December 11 - Karla Souza, Mexican-American actress.
• Date unknown – Ricardo Domínguez, welterweight wrestler.

  Notable deaths

• An estimated 10,000 people died during the September 19 earthquake.

  Sports

• Mexico managed to win for the first time to Poland on 5 February when at the opening of Corregidora Stadium in Querétaro.