Convention of Aguascalientes

Convention of Aguascalientes
Photograph of Pancho Villa seated in the presidential chair, together with Emiliano Zapata
Native name Soberana Convención Revolucionaria
English nameSovereign Revolutionary Convention
DateOctober 10 – November 9, 1914 (1914-10-10 – 1914-11-09)
VenueChamber of Deputies, later Morelos Theater
LocationAguascalientes
TypeConvention
CauseMexican Revolution
MotiveUnity of revolutionary forces
Organised byConventionists
ParticipantsVillistas, Zapatistas
OutcomeElection of Eulalio Gutiérrez as President of Mexico, formation of the Conventionist Army and beginning of the civil war with the Constitutionalists

The Convention of Aguascalientes was a major meeting that took place during the Mexican Revolution between the factions in the Mexican Revolution that had defeated Victoriano Huerta's Federal Army and forced his resignation and exile in July 1914.

The call for the convention was issued on 1 October 1914 by Venustiano Carranza, head of the Constitutional Army, who described it as the Gran Convención de Jefes militares con mando de fuerzas y gobernadores de los Estados ("Great Convention of Commanding Military Chiefs and State Governors") and seen as "the last attempt to create unity among the revolutionaries."[1]

Its first sessions were held in the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City, but were later transferred to the city of Aguascalientes, hence its name came, where it met from 10 October to 9 November 1914.

  1. ^ Friedrich Katz, The Secret War in Mexico, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1981, p.267.