1916 in Mexico
# 1916 in Mexico

Events from the year 1916 in Mexico.

## Incumbents

### Federal government

* President: Venustiano Carranza

### Governors

* Aguascalientes:
* Campeche: Joaquín Mucel Acereto
* Chiapas: José Ascención González/Blas Corral/Pablo Villanueva
* Chihuahua: Arnulfo González
* Coahuila: Bruno Neyra/Alfredo Breceda/Gustavo Espinoza Mireles
* Colima: Interim Governors
* Durango:
* Guanajuato: Fernando Dávila
* Hidalgo:
* Jalisco: Manuel M. Diéguez/Emiliano Degollado
* State of Mexico: Pascual Morales y Molina/Rafael Cepeda
* Michoacán:
* Morelos: Lorenzo Vázquez/Dionisio Carreón
* Nayarit: José Santos Godínez
* Nuevo León: Nicéforo Zambrano
* Oaxaca: Juan Jiménez Méndez
* Puebla:
* Querétaro: Federico Montes
* San Luis Potosí: Juan G. Barragán Rodríguez
* Sinaloa: Ramón F. Iturbe
* Sonora: Plutarco Elías Calles
* Tabasco: Joaquín Ruiz/Luis Hernández Hermosillo/Heriberto Jara Corona
* Tamaulipas: Alfredo Ricaut/Andrés Osuna
* Tlaxcala:
* Veracruz:
* Yucatán: Salvador Alvarado Rubio
* Zacatecas:

## Events

* March 9 – Battle of Columbus
* March 29 – Battle of Guerrero
* April 12 – Battle of Parral
* May 5 – Glenn Springs Raid
* June 15 – San Ygnacio Raid
* June 21 – Battle of Carrizal

## Births

* February 14
   * Juan Celada Salmón, engineer (Ternium) and inventor (Proceso HYL) (d. 2017)
   * Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, Governor of Sinaloa 1963–1968 (d. 1989)
* April 11 — Armando León Bejarano, governor of Morelos (1976-1982) (d. 2016)
* June 12 – Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-born American politician (Democratic Party), governor of Arizona, diplomat, and judge (d. April 10, 2015).

## Deaths

* January 13 – Victoriano Huerta, 35th President of Mexico (b. 1850)
* April 16 — Amador Salazar was a leader of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution (b. 1868)
