SOURCES
In 1943, Anita Brenner wrote:
In The Wind That Swept Mexico, the story of the Mexican Revolution has been put together in English for the first time. There are no complete accounts of it in Spanish, either, so the sources are
1. Eye Witnesses. The author saw the upheaval as a child, and later knew many of its important participants and learned something about the way it looked to each of them. Its analysts and scholarly participants -- such as, for instance, Jesús Silva Herzog, Federico Bach, Ramón Beteta, Eduardo Suárez, José Miguel Bejarano -- have taught the author, amiably and patiently, much about the underlying facts and processes.
2. Biographies and memoirs, many written in the midst of struggle and as part of it.
3. General works such as the annual statistics and information compiled by the Mexican government, some for publication, some only for the guidance of its ministries; the United States Department of Commerce's bulletins and yearbooks; United States consular reports, and specific works such as Dr. Eyler Simpson's study of the Mexican land problem (The Ejido, Mexico's Way Out); Dr. Ernest Gruening's history of Mexico on which the author worked as a research assistant; Andres Molina Enriquez's Los Grandes Problemas Nacionales and La Revolución Agraria de Mexico. Much valuable information was also found in James Morton Callahan's American Foreign Policy in Mexican Relations, Walter Flavius McCaleb's The Public Finances of Mexico, Edgar Turlington's Mexico and Her Foreign Creditors; Edwar R. Bell's The Political Shame of Mexico and Marjorie Clark's Organized Labor in Mexico.
However, if the list of printed sources read and consulted were to be given, [sic] completely it would run on page after page tediously; and, since this is no academic history nor Ph. D. thesis, it would add nothing to the story but more space. When the complete history of the Mexican Revolution is written, with unlimited opportunities to check each eye witness against the other, each printed source against its sources, the details in The Wind That Swept Mexico can be amplified and some, maybe, will stand correction. The author does not claim to be infallible. She does know that enough checking and digging has been done through a good many years to make her sure that she has arrived at a more complete, accurate and fair account than has so far been published.
CHRONOLOGY (Some important dates in Mexican History)
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1520 -- Conquest of Mexico by Cortez
1810, September 16 -- Declaration of Mexican Indepenence by Father Miguel Hidalgo
1821 -- Recognition of Mexican Independence by Juan O'Donoju last Spanish viceroy
1836 -- Texas declares its independence of Mexico
1846-48 -- Mexican War with the United States
1859 -- Benito Juárez named President
1861-67 -- French intervention
1864 -- Arrival of Emperor Maximillian
1867, June 19 -- Execution of Maximillian
1867 -- Juárez elected President
1871 -- Revolt of General Porfirio Diaz against Juárez
1872 -- Death of Juárez
1877 -- Porfirio Diaz named President
1880 -- General Manuel Gonzalez elected President
1884-1910 -- Diaz re-elected continuously
1906, June --The Green Cananea Copper Company Strike
1907, January 7 -- Suppression of the Rio Blanco strike
1908, March -- Publication of the Creelman interview with Diaz in Pearson's Magazine
1909 -- Publication of Molina Enriquez' The Great National Problems
1909, June 20 -- Risings in Chihuahua and Coahuila set off by Ricardo and Enriquez Flores Magón
1910, September -- Centennial of Mexican Independence
1911, January 30 -- Revolt in Lower California headed by Ricardo Flores Magón
1911, March 6 -- Mobilization of United States Army on Mexican border
1911, May 10 -- Capture of the City of Juarez by the Maderistas
1911, May 25 -- Resignation and flight of Diaz
1911, June 7 -- Madero enters Mexico City
1911, November 28 -- Emiliano Zapata issues the Plan of Ayala
1913, February 9-19 -- "The Tragic Ten Days" in Mexico City and accession of Victoriano Huerta to the presidency
1913, February 22 -- Murder of President Madero and Vice-President Suárez
1914, April 2 -- Capture of Torreón by Francisco Villa
1914, April 21 -- Seizure of Vera Cruz by the United States Navy
1914, July 15 -- Resignation and flight of President Huerta
1914, November 1 -- The Aguascalientes convention
1915, April 16 -- Defeat of Villa by Obregón at the battle of Celaya
1916, March 9 -- Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico
1917, February 5 -- Withdrawal from Mexico of the Pershing Expedition
1917, May 1 -- Carranza inaugurated as Constitutional President
1917 -- New Mexican Constitution framed at Queretaro
1919, April 10 -- Murder of Emiliano Zapata
1920, May 21 -- Murder of President Carranza at Tlaxcalantongo
1920, December 1 -- Alvaro Obregón inaugurated as President
1923 -- Expulsion of Monsignor Filippi, papal delegate
1923, August 31 -- Obregón's government recognized by the United States
1923, July 18 -- Murder of Francisco Villa
1924, December 1 -- Plutarco Elias Calles inaugurated as President
1926, January -- The Church denounces the religious and educational provisions of the new Constitution
1926, July 31 -- Religious exercises suspended by the Church
1927, October -- Arrival of Dwight Morrow as United States Ambassador
1928 -- Re-election of Alvaro Obregón
1928, July 17 -- Assassination of Obregón by José León Toral
1928, December 1 -- Emilio Portes Gil inaugurated as Provisional President
1930, February 5 -- Pascual Ortiz Rubio inaugurated as President
1932, September 1 -- Ortiz Rubio resigns and General Abelardo Rodriquez assumes the Presidency
1933, March 17 -- Josephus Daniels appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico
1934, November 30 -- General Lázaro Cárdnas inaugurated as President
1937, February 25 -- Louis Martinez appointed Archbishop by Pope Pius XI
1938, March 18 -- President Cárdenas expropriates the foreign controlled oil fields.
1940 -- Manuel Ávila Camacho elected President
1942, June 1 -- Mexico declares war on the Axis [Germany, Italy and Japan]
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