HISTORY.
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| Mar. 31, 1856. | Property of the clergy sequestrated. | |
| Feb. 5, 1857. | New Constitution. | |
| July, 1857. | Comonfort chosen President; seventeenth President. | |
| Jan. 11, 1858. | Coup d’ état; Comonfort compelled to retire. | |
| Jan. 21-26, " | General Zuloaga takes the government. | |
| Feb. 11, 1858. | Benito Juarez declared constitutional President at Vera Cruz; eighteenth President. | |
| Aug. to Nov., " | Civil war; several engagements. | |
| Jan. 6, 1859. | General Miguel Miramon nominated President at Mexico by the Junta; nineteenth President. | |
| Feb. 2, 1859. | Zuloaga abdicates. | |
| Feb., 1859. | In consequence of injury to British subjects, ships of war are sent to Mexico. | |
| April 10, 1859. | Miramon forces the lines of the Liberal generals, enters the capital, assumes his functions as governor, and governs without respect to the laws of life and property. | |
| July 13, 1859. | Juarez confiscates the Church property. | |
| Dec. 21, 1859. | Miramon and the clerical party defeat the Liberals under Colima. | |
| Mar. 5, 1860. | He besieges Vera Cruz; bombards it; March 21st, compelled to raise the siege. | |
| May 1, 1860. | General Zuloaga deposes Miramon, and assumes the presidency; twentieth President. | |
| May 9, 1860. | Miramon arrests Zuloaga; May 10th, the diplomatic bodies suspend official relations with the former. | |
| Aug. 10, 1860. | Miramon defeated by Degollado. | |
| Oct., 1860. | He governs Mexico with much tyranny; the foreign ministers quit the City. | |
| Jan. 19, 1861. | He is compelled to retire; Juarez enters Mexico and is re-elected President; twenty-first President. | |
| June 30, 1861. | Juarez made dictator by the Congress. | |
| July 17, 1861. | The Mexican Congress decides to suspend payments to foreigners for two years— | |
| July 27, 1861. | Which leads to the breaking off of diplomatic relations with England and France. | |
| Oct. 31, 1861. | In consequence of many gross outrages on foreigners, the British, French, and Spanish Governments, after much vain negotiation, claiming efficient protection of foreigners, and the payment of arrears due to fund-holders, sign a convention engaging to combine in hostile operations against Mexico. |
