1853 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1853 in Mexico.

Incumbents

President and Cabinet

• President

Juan Bautista Ceballos^[1]

• President

Manuel María Lombardini

• President

Antonio López de Santa Anna

• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Díez de Bonilla/Ignacio Aguilar

Governors

• Aguascalientes: José Cirilo Gómez Anaya
• Chiapas: Fernando Nicolás Maldonado/Domingo Ruiz Molina/Fernando Nicolás Maldonado
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Nuevo León: Agapito García Dávila
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro: José Antonio Urrutia/Ramón María Loreto Canal de Samaniego/Ramón María Loreto Canal de Samaniego/José María Herrera y Lozada
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán: Miguel Barbachano
• Zacatecas:

Events

• December 30  - Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.^[2]

Deaths

January

• February 6  - Anastasio Bustamante, Mexican President (b. 1780)

June

• Lucas Alamán, Mexican statesman and historian (b. 1792)

Notes and References

1. Book: Bancroft, Hubert Howe . History of Mexico volume V: 1824-1861 . 1879 . 616.
2. Book: Documents of American Democracy . 2010 . 978-0786456741 . Kemp . Roger L. . 195.