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GENERAL INFORMATION.
| Dec. 28, 1836. | Independence of Mexico recognized by Spain. | |
| April 19, 1837. | Bustamante again President. | |
| Nov. 30, 1838. | Declaration of war against France. | |
| March 9, 1839. | This war terminated. | |
| Mar. & July, " | Santa Anna, revolutionary provisional President. | |
| 1839. | Nicolas Bravo, President for one week; sixth President. | |
| 1841-‘44. | Santa Anna, Nicolas Bravo, and Canalizo, dictators. | |
| 1844. | Santa Anna, President for third time; seventh President. | |
| Sept. 20, 1844. | Canalizo, President for second time; eighth President. | |
| June 4, 1845. | War with the United States, growing out of the annexation of Texas. The question was a disputed boundary-line. Mexico claimed that the Nueces River was the frontier line, while the United States maintained that the Rio Grande was the proper boundary—hence the war. General Zachary Taylor began the hostilities on the side of the latter. | |
| Dec, 1845. | Herrera becomes ninth President. | |
| 1846. | The Mexicans defeated at Palo Alto, May 8th; and subsequently at Matamoros. | |
| Aug. 22, 1846. | Santa Fé captured. | |
| Sept. 24, 1846. | Battle of Monterey. | |
| 1847. | Paredes, tenth President. | |
| Feb. 22, 1847. | Battle of Buena Vista; the Mexicans defeated by General Taylor, with great loss, after two days' fighting. Santa Anna commanded the former. | |
| March 9, 1847. | Scott landed at Vera Cruz, and marched westward. | |
| April 18, 1847. | The Americans, under General Scott, defeat the Mexicans under Santa Anna, making 6,000 prisoners. | |
| Sept. 14, 1847. | Scott captured the City of Mexico. | |
| 1848. | Santa Anna, President fourth time; eleventh President. | |
| May 19, 1848. | Treaty between Mexico and the United States ratified. | |
| 1850. | Herrera, President second time; twelfth President. | |
| 1852. | Arista, President; thirteenth President. | |
| Sept., 1852. | Political convulsions. | |
| Jan. 6, 1853. | President Arista resigns, and Santa Anna is invited to return. | |
| 1853. | Santa Anna, President fifth time; fourteenth President. | |
| Jan., 1855. | He abdicates; Carrera elected President; fifteenth President. | |
| Dec, 1855. | Carrera also abdicates, and is succeeded by Alvarez. | |
| 1855. | Alvarez, President; sixteenth President. |
