Important dates in Mexican history include: 1) September 16th, which marks Mexican Independence Day, commemorating Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's call for independence from Spain in 1810, beginning a long war for independence. 2) September 13th honors the Niños Heroes, teenage military cadets who courageously defended Chapultepec Castle against invading U.S. forces in 1847 during the Mexican-American War. 3) November 20th, 1910 marks the beginning of the Mexican Revolution with Francisco I. Madero's Plan of San Luis Potosi, which pushed for democratic reforms and an end to the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. This led to a decade long

1. IMPORTANT DAYS IN MEXICO
HISTORY
 By: Adolfo Morales

2. 16 de septiembre
On 16 September is the day when many friends birthday ... but what few
know is that aside from the birthday also marks the independence day. On
the day that Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla gave the cry for independence. The
war was one of the longest battles that won Mexico's history. Began on
September 15 and ended on 16 that month but not in the same year. We
became independent thanks to our forefathers who gave the struggle for
more than 5 years.
VIVA MEXICO

3. 13 de septiembre
Niños Heroes
During the war declared by the United States to Mexico in order to obtain the territories of Alta California and
New Mexico, the U.S. Army under the command of General Winfield Scott, attacked Chapultepec Castle was
located where the military college. The young cadets, most teenagers, who formed the battalion by Nicolás
Bravo, they displayed courage in resisting aggression and even melee fighting. Yet in the end, the Americans
took the castle.
Account Noris [citation needed] that Montes de Oca, then one of his best friends told him he had dreamed
that he would die that day, to which Noris said to have faith and would work out the incident. Lt. Juan Escutia
died defending the horn-work at the southern foot of the hill. The 37 cadets survivors were taken prisoners of
war.

4. 20 de November
Starting in 1910, began an armed struggle with the Plan of San Luis Potosi, and later other leaders, faced
various problems, as were the unfair distribution of wealth, the existence of large estates to put the field
Mexico in the hands of a few landowners, the exploitation of workers by capitalist industrial, administrative
corruption, denial of democracy in the elections, the country's cultural stagnation and other problems that led
to the revolutionary struggle. The armed movement had several stages:
* Don Francisco I. Madero, who in 1909 promoted Antirreeleccionista Party, the armed movement began
November 20, 1910 pushing for the "Effective Suffrage and No Reelection" and die for the cause of the
Revolution in the episode known as the "Ten Days";
* Pancho Villa took his command of the Northern Division;
* Emiliano Zapata fought for land justice;
* Venustiano Carranza, in March 1913, rose against the government of the usurper Victoriano Huerta, known
struggle culminated in the enactment of the Federal Constitution (February 5, 1917), which currently governs
us. In this paper are embodied the ideals of the principal leaders of the Mexican Revolution.