1979 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: José López Portillo
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:
• Secretary of Public Education:
• Tourism Secretary :

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

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

  Events

• Museo Rufino Tamayo in Oaxaca opens.
• Colegio Alemán de Guadalajara founded.
• University of the Cloister of Sor Juana established.
• February 5: Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuautitlán established.
• June 3: Ixtoc I oil spill
• July 1: 1979 Mexican legislative election
• September 14–21: Hurricane Henri
• October 31: Western Airlines Flight 2605

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1979

  Sport

• 1978–79 Mexican Primera División season.
• Ángeles de Puebla win the Mexican League.
• 1979 Summer Universiade in Mexico City.
• 1979 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics in Guadalajara.
• Club de Fútbol Oaxtepec founded.

  Births

• March 16: Adriana Fonseca, actress and dancer.
• July 23: Perro Aguayo Jr., pro wrestler.
• September 25: Karla Luna, actress and singer.
• November 19: Michelle Vieth, American born Mexican actress and model.
• December 23: Jacqueline Bracamontes, Mexican actress and beauty contest winner.
• December 29: Diego Luna, actor, director, producer

  Deaths

• January 18 — María Dolores Izaguirre de Ruiz, First Lady of Mexico
• July 15 — Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños, President of Mexico 1964-1970