Mexican Independence Timeline

By Romina Garza
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    Early months of 1810 [Initiation]

    La Corregidora (doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez), Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Ignacio Allende, and others would get together to talk about conspiracies against the Spanish and Spain’s rule over New Spain. They wanted to end it because they disliked that the creole’s jobs and money were taken away by the Spanish. To create this conspiracies, they read books by the Enlightenment thinkers.

  • Ordered Arrests [Initiation]

    Ordered Arrests [Initiation]
    A priest who had heard about the conspiracies through a person that was confessing told the government of what the creoles were planning. It was ordered that the most important figures of this group were going to be arrested and some were. When Allende heard of this, he got on his horse to Dolores to let Hidalgo know.

  • Grito de Dolores [Consolidation]

    Grito de Dolores [Consolidation]
    Allende arrived at Dolores and told Hidalgo that the Spanish were coming to arrest them. Hidalgo took a flag with the Virgen de Guadalupe and did the Grito de Dolores to call the people to battle.

  • Attack of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas [Resistance]

    Attack of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas [Resistance]
    El Pípila (Juan José de los Reyes Martínez Amaro), who worked in a mine in Guanajuato and was an insurgent, he knocked down a door and set everything on fire while wearing a rock on his back when the Spanish had locked themselves in during a battle in Alhóndiga de Granaditas.

  • Battle of Monte de las Cruces [Resistance]

    Battle of Monte de las Cruces [Resistance]
    This day, Hidalgo y Costilla and Allende’s troops fought in the Battle of Monte de las Cruces. The insurgents won this battle and it was the first battle they won.
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    Battle of Calderón Bridge [Resistance]

    The insurgents and the Spanish fought in the Battle of Calderón Bridge near Guadalajara. The insurgents were defeated during this battle.

  • Hidalgo was executed. [Resistance]

    Hidalgo was executed. [Resistance]

  • Battle of Temalaca [Resistance]

    Battle of Temalaca [Resistance]
    Morelos led the insurgents in the Battle of Temalaca, a battle they lost against the Spanish royalists.

  • Plan de Iguala [Consummation]

    Plan de Iguala [Consummation]
    Iturbide wrote the Plan de Iguala. It said that Mexico would now have a Catholic monarchy and he would be the emperor.
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    End of Independence War [Consummation]

    The war ended on September 27, 1821 after 11 years when Iturbide and his troop marched through Mexico City and the First Mexican Empire is created, with Iturbide as the emperor.