02/01/2008
1 January: Twenty communities in the indigenous Triqui region come together to form the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, which they will govern under the […]
The aim of this chronology is not to cover the complete history of Oaxaca, but rather to explain key elements in order to provide an understanding of recent events.
02/01/2007
June 14: A sit-in by Section 22 of the SNTE which had occupied the historic centre of Oaxaca City since May 22 is violently repressed, leaving […]
02/01/2006
1 January: The population of the town of San Blas expel the official authorities and their leader, Agustina Acevedo Gutiérrez, from the town council and found […]
03/01/2005
18 March: A group of unknown assailants shoot at Governor José Murat, who is slightly injured. Expert tests indicate that the Governor of Oaxaca could in […]
02/01/2004
25 January: The Agrarian Forum Against Repression and Para-militarism is founded in the city of Tuxtepec, with more than forty social, indigenous and independent organizations and […]
02/01/2003
1 January: Members of the CROCUT assault 46 members of the Consejo Indígena Popular Ricardo Flores Magón (CIPO-RFM) from the communities of Santiago Yagallo, San Isidro […]
02/01/2002
January: Monseñor Arturo Lona Reyes, Bishop of Tehuantepec and a key proponent in Mexico of liberation theology, hands in his resignation letter on reaching retirement age. […]
02/01/2001
1 December: Twenty militants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People (FARP) burst into the town centre of Nazareno Etla, ten kilometres away from the […]
03/01/2000
The history of the indigenous peoples of Oaxaca goes back to around 10,000 BC, with the arrival of the first nomadic groups in the Central Valleys […]
03/01/2000
3 February 1824: Creation of the State of Oaxaca. 1858-1872: A Oaxaqueño in the Presidency of the Republic Benito Juárez, an indigenous Zapotec from Oaxaca, becomes […]