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Carranza, Venustiano
1859 - Venustiano Carranza was born on December 29th in Cuatro Ciénagas, Coahuila.
1908 - He became interim state Governor.
1912 - Carranza was appointed Secretary of War and of the Navy in the cabinet formed by Madero, as well as Governor elect of Coahuila.
1913 - Huerta's betrayal of Madero led him to draw up the Plan of Guadalupe, in which he refused to accept the powers of the dictator.
1915 - Venustiano Carranza assumed the presidency on May 1st.
- He formed the Constitutionalist Army to lead a rebellion that would restore the constitutional order defined by the Constitution of 1857.
- Carranza issued the Law of January 6th, which conceived the ejido (collective farm) as compensation for injustice, rather than as a new system of land ownership.
1916 - In September, in an act of great political importance, Carranza summoned a new Constituent Congress.
1918 - On November 1st, the Carranza Doctrine was issued; this document upholds the equality between the states and condemns all intervention in the internal affairs of other nations; it also covers the equivalent of the rights of nationals and of foreigners in the eyes of the law of a given country.
1920 - Carranza was assassinated on May 21st in Tlaxcaltongo, Puebla.
1908 - He became interim state Governor.
1912 - Carranza was appointed Secretary of War and of the Navy in the cabinet formed by Madero, as well as Governor elect of Coahuila.
1913 - Huerta's betrayal of Madero led him to draw up the Plan of Guadalupe, in which he refused to accept the powers of the dictator.
1915 - Venustiano Carranza assumed the presidency on May 1st.
- He formed the Constitutionalist Army to lead a rebellion that would restore the constitutional order defined by the Constitution of 1857.
- Carranza issued the Law of January 6th, which conceived the ejido (collective farm) as compensation for injustice, rather than as a new system of land ownership.
1916 - In September, in an act of great political importance, Carranza summoned a new Constituent Congress.
1918 - On November 1st, the Carranza Doctrine was issued; this document upholds the equality between the states and condemns all intervention in the internal affairs of other nations; it also covers the equivalent of the rights of nationals and of foreigners in the eyes of the law of a given country.
1920 - Carranza was assassinated on May 21st in Tlaxcaltongo, Puebla.
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