1929 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President:
• *Emilio Portes Gil
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

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

  Events

• March 3 – Escobar Rebellion: A revolt by Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre, challenging the power of Plutarco Elías Calles, ends in failure.
• November 17 – General election: Pascual Ortiz Rubio of the National Revolutionary Party is elected the new President. It is now widely thought that the election was rigged.

  Ongoing

• Mexican Repatriation

  Births

• January 4 – Aldo Monti, actor
• February 24 – Modesta Lavana, healer and activist for indigenous rights in Hueyapan
• April 5 – Vicente García Bernal, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón.
• April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, actress
• July 28 – José Solé, stage actor and director
• August 20 – Carlos Ancira, film actor
• October 17 — Sergio Chávez Saldaña, Chihuahua surgeon and teacher.
• November 18 — Francisco Savín, composer and director of Xalapa Symphony Orchestra ;.
• Date unknown — Adela Peralta Leppe, actress, first female clown in Mexico

  Deaths

• March 20 – Miguel Alemán González, general