1839 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 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:
• 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.

Notable births

• * May 25 Manuel Sánchez Mármol  - writer, lawyer, politician, and a member of the Mexican Academy of Language was born in Cunduacán, Tabasco^[1]

Notable deaths

• May 3 José Antonio Mexía  - politician executed in Acajete, Veracruz (born 1800)^[2]

Dates unknown

• José María Lanz  - engineer and author, died in Paris (born 1764)
• Francisco María Ruiz  - soldier and settler of San Diego, Alta California (born 1754)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tabasco – Cunduacán . 9 April 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110517172444/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/tabasco/mpios/27006a.htm . 17 May 2011 . dead .
2. Web site: Finding Aid to the Mexía Family Papers, 1694-1951. 9 April 2011.