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Mexico's famous historical people - a chronological list of Mexican makers of history
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Dates
Person
940? - ?
Quetzalcoatl
1403 - 1473
Nezahualcoyotl
? - 1469
Moctezuma Ilhuicamina (I)
1480? - 1520
Moctezuma Xocoyotl (II)
1489? - 1531?
Jeronimo de Aguilar
1485 - 1547
Hernan Cortés
1495 - 1525
Cuauhtemoc
14?? - 1550
Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán
"Bloody Guzman"
? - ?
La Malinche
In Search of Malinche - the Mexican Mata Hari
Doña Marina: La Malinche - Unrecognized Heroine
1474 - 1566
Bartolomé de Las Casas
1531
La Virgen de Guadalupe
1530 - 1550
The 1st Viceroy of Mexico:
Antonio de Mendoza
1470? - 1565
The Utopian:
Vasco de Quiroga
1644 - 1711
The Jesuit:
Father Kino
1651 - 1695
Juana Inés de la Cruz
1753 - 1811
The Father:
Miguel Hidalgo
1765 - 1815
Warrior Priest:
José Morelos y Pavón
1768 - 1829
Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez
1776 - 1827
Mexico's Voltaire
José Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi
1782 - 1831
President 1829
Vincente Guerrero
1783 - 1824
Emperor 1822-23
Agustín de Iturbide
Agustín Itúrbide, Unappreciated Unknown
1786 - 1843
The First President: 1824-1828
Guadalupe Victoria
1786 - 1854
Nicolás Bravo
1789 - 1818
Javier Mina
1792 - 1853
Lucas Alamán
1794 - 1876
Antonio López de Santa Anna
1779 - 1811
Ignacio de Allende
1847
Niños Heroes - The Heroic Children
18?? - 1856
Santos Degollado
1806 - 1872
Benito Juarez
1823 - 1889
Lerdo de Tejada
Maximilian & Carlota - the Emperor and Empress of Mexico
1814 - 1861
Melchor Ocampo
1830 - 1915
Porfirio Díaz
1832 - 1867
Emperor of Mexico
Archduke Maximilian Von Hapsburg
1845 - 1916
Victoriano Huerta
1852 - 1913
José Guadalupe Posada
1859 - 1920
Venustiano Carranza
1873 - 1952
Mariano Azuela
1873 - 1913
Francisco I. Madero
Francisco Ignacio Madero
1877 - 1945
Plutarco Elias Calles
1879 - 1919
Emiliano Zapata
1878 - 1923
Pancho Villa
Doroteo Arango
1876 - 1910
Aquiles Serdán
1880 - 1928
Alvaro Obregón
1882 - 1915
Pascual Orozco, Jr.
1883 - 1949
José Clemente Orozco
1886 - 1957
Diego Rivera
1894 - 1968
Vicente Lombardo Toledano
1895 - 1970
Lazaro Cardenas
1896 - 1974
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1904 - 1980
Augustin Yañez
1909 - 1970
Adolfo López Mateos
1911 - 1970
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
1914 - 1994
Manuel Ponce
1914 - 1998
Octavio Paz
1917 - 1986
Juan Rulfo
1928 -
Carlos Fuentes
1988 - 1994
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
President
1990s
The Zapatistas
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