1848 in Mexico

Incumbents

• President – Pedro María de Anaya
• President – Manuel de la Peña y Peña
• President – José Joaquín de Herrera

  Governors

• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

• January 6 – Mexican General Antonio Gaona and his son are captured at the Battle of Napoluca.
• January 22 to February 14 – A failed Mexican siege of Siege of San José del Cabo
• February 2 – Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest of that country.
• March 16 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales in Chihuahua
• March 31 – Lt. Col. Henry S. Burton defeated Mexican forces in Baja California Sur
• May 30 – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo with the United States
• Peralta massacre

  Notable births

• January 26 – Justo Sierra