1985 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel de la Madrid
• 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 :
• Secretary of the Environment :
• Secretary of Health :

  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

• January 1, Querétaro state elections
• June 17, Morelos I was the first communications satellite launch by Mexico.
• July 7, state elections in Colima
• September 19, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck in Mexico City.
• The LIII Legislature Congress of Mexico begins its inauguration.
• November 26, on the STS-61-B mission Rodolfo Neri Vela became the first Mexican and second Latin American astronaut to reach into space.

  Notable births

• September 19 – Fourteen newborn babies survived the earthquake.
• October 15 - Sherlyn González, singer and actress.
• December 11 - Karla Souza, Mexican-American actress.
• Date unknown – Ricardo Domínguez, welterweight wrestler.

  Notable deaths

• An estimated 10,000 people died during the September 19 earthquake.

  Sports

• Mexico managed to win for the first time to Poland on 5 February when at the opening of Corregidora Stadium in Querétaro.