title: 1891 in Mexico
text: # 1891 in Mexico
  
  Events in the year 1891 in Mexico.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Porfirio Diaz
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Aguascalientes: Alejandro Vázquez del Mercado
  * Campeche: Joaquín Kerlegand/Leocadio Preve
  * Chiapas: Manuel Carrascosa/Emilio Rabasa
  * Chihuahua: Lauro Carrillo
  * Coahuila: José María Garza Galán
  * Colima: Gildardo Gómez Campero
  * Durango:
  * Guanajuato:
  * Guerrero:
  * Hidalgo:
  * Jalisco:
  * State of Mexico:
  * Michoacán:
  * Morelos: Jesús H. Preciado
  * Nuevo León: Bernardo Reyes
  * Oaxaca:
  * Puebla:
  * Querétaro: Francisco González de Cosío
  * San Luis Potosí: Carlos Díez Gutiérrez
  * Sinaloa:
  * Sonora:
  * Tabasco:
  * Tamaulipas:
  * Tlaxcala:
  * Veracruz: Juan de la Luz Enríquez Lara
  * Yucatán: Colonel Daniel Traconis
  * 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
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 4 – Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic prelate and politician (b. 1816)
  * December 17 – José María Iglesias, Mexican lawyer and journalist, interim president from 1876 to 1877 (b. 1823)
  