Events in the year 1839 in Mexico.
Incumbents
President – Anastasio Bustamante until March 20, Antonio López de Santa Anna until July 10, Nicolás Bravo until July 19, Anastasio Bustamante
Governors Aguascalientes: Chiapas: Salvador Ayanegui Chihuahua: Berardo Revilla/José María Irigoyen Rodríguez/Simón Elías González/José María Irigoyen de la O/José María Irigoyen Rodríguez/José María Irigoyen de la O Coahuila: Francisco García Conde/Isidro Reyes Durango: Guanajuato: Guerrero: Jalisco: Antonio Escobedo State of Mexico: Michoacán: Nuevo León: Joaquín García/Manuel María de Llano Oaxaca: Puebla: Querétaro: Ramón Covarrubias San Luis Potosí: Sinaloa: Sonora: Tabasco: Tamaulipas: José Antonio Fernández Izaguirre/Jose Antonio Quintero Veracruz: Yucatán: Zacatecas:
Events
November 27, 1838 – March 9, 1839 – Pastry War May 2, 1839 – Santiago Imán heads a peasant revolt in the Yucatán. December 27, 1939 - The first Spanish envoy to independent Mexico, Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano arrived in Veracruz. His wife was Fanny Calderón de la Barca who wrote Life in Mexico, a well-known book about the couples' life from 1839 to 1843 in Mexico.
Notable births * May 25 Manuel Sánchez Mármol – writer, lawyer, politician, and a member of the Mexican Academy of Language was born in Cunduacán, Tabasco
Notable deaths May 3 José Antonio Mexía – politician executed in Acajete, Veracruz (born 1800)
Dates unknown José María Lanz – engineer and author, died in Paris (born 1764) Francisco María Ruiz – soldier and settler of San Diego, Alta California (born 1754)
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