Focusing on the Independence, Reform, Revolution Panel of Oaxaca en la historia y en el mito, discuss the How Mexico got her First Emperor about the 3. The Second French Invasion, (1861–67).
= How Mexico got her First Emperor Returning our attention to the War of Independence (1810-1821), after Mexico became independent from Spain, Agustín de Iturbide became Emperor of Mexico, formally from May 9, 1822, to March 19, 1823. In a strange twist of fate, it was Mexican conservatives, led by Iturbide, who brought about independence in 1821, not the liberal insurgents who had started the War of Independence in 1810. The explanation is that when liberals took power in Spain, promises were made in the Constitution of Cadiz for liberalizing the administration of the colonies like New Spain (Mexico). These changes would appease Mexican insurgents and the royalists, their opponents in the War of Independence, would lose some of their power. Rather than have Spanish liberal ideas imposed on Mexico, the Conservative agreed with the Liberals to draw up the Plan of Iguala of 1821. It contained three guarantees for establishing peace: the primacy of Roman Catholicism, the independence of Mexico, and social equality for all Mexicans.
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