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Conflict Americas

Mexican Revolution

1910 CE – 1920 CE · 10 years

A decade-long multi-sided civil war that overthrew dictator Porfirio Díaz and transformed Mexico. The revolution pitted peasant armies under Zapata and Villa against various elite factions, killing over 1 million people and producing the world's first social revolutionary constitution (1917).

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Mexican Revolution on Wikipedia.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Revolutionary factions (Villa, Zapata, Carranza, Obregón)
  • Federal Government (Díaz, Huerta)

Key moments

Defining events in the Mexican Revolution.

  1. 1911 Battle of Ciudad Juárez
  2. 1915 Battle of Celaya
  3. 1916 Columbus Raid & Pershing Expedition

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Americas

Las Lajas Sanctuary

1916 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Guyana

Founded 1914 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Americas

U.S. Occupation of Haiti

1915 CE – 1934 CE

Trade route · Americas

Panama Canal Route

1914 CE

Landmark · Americas

Grand Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Suriname

Founded 1914 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Americas

Banana Wars

1898 CE – 1934 CE

Landmark · Americas

Mammoth Cave

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1910 CE and 1920 CE.

1914 CE Panama Canal 1915 CE U.S. Occupation of Haiti 1916 CE Las Lajas Sanctuary 1911 CE Italo-Turkish War 1911 CE Italo-Senussi War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Cathedral Notre-Dame du Congo Landmark · Africa 1914 CE – still standing Iran Polity · Middle East Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE Theodore Roosevelt Figure · United States 1858 CE – 1919 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Al-Muhdhar Mosque Landmark · Middle East 1914 CE – still standing
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