Mexican Revolution Day is an official government holiday, celebrated annually in Mexico on November 20, marking the start of what became the Mexican Revolution.
Children from the Montessori Kindergarten singing "La Cucaracha"
Francisco I. Madero, who called on Mexicans to rise up on November 20, 1910
Republic Square.
On the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Mexican Revolution the Federal District Government carried out the rehabilitation and restoration of Republic Square, Monumento a la Revolución (Monument to the Revolution) and National Museum of the Revolution.
Francisco I. Madero González was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and statesman, who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in a coup d'état in February 1913 and assassinated. He came to prominence as an advocate for democracy and as an opponent of President and de facto dictator Porfirio Díaz. After Díaz claimed to have won the fraudulent election of 1910 despite promising a return to democracy, Madero started the Mexican Revolution to oust Díaz. The Mexican revolution would continue until 1920, well after Madero and Díaz's deaths, with hundreds of thousands dead.
Francisco I. Madero, c. 1910–13
Hacienda del Rosario in Parras, birthplace of President Madero
Francisco Madero Hernández [es] and Thomas Edison
École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris, where Madero and his brother studied business.
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