1891 in Mexico

Incumbents

• President: Porfirio Diaz

  Governors

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

  Events

• June 23 – establishment of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuernavaca, Roman Catholic Diocese of Saltillo, Roman Catholic Diocese of Tehuantepec and Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic
• September 15 – Garza Revolution: 60-80 followers of Catarino Garza crossed the Rio Grande from Texas into Mexico. Most are Mexican-Americans recruited locally.
• September 16 – a telegram is sent from Fort Ringgold to the United States Army's Department of Texas informing of the crossing
• December 26 – The Mexican Army is attacked by Garza's followers in a raid from San Ygnacio, Texas

  Births

Deaths

• February 4 - Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic prelate and politician
• December 17 - José María Iglesias, Mexican lawyer and journalist, interim president from 1876 to 1877