Naval engagements at Topolobampo, Sinaloa, March 4 - June 16, 1914 Obregón gets a gunboat at Topolobampo and Sinaloa witnesses four of the rare naval battles of the Mexican Revolution General Álvaro Obregón drives rapidly south through Sinaloa in 1914 and isolates Obregón finds allies among the Constitutionalists in Sinaloa Obregón drives the Constitutional Army of the Northwest into Sinaloa State in November 1913 Obregón marches his army to the Sonora - Sinaloa border and prepares to drive south toward Culiacán Obregón clears Sonora of Mexican federal troops in 1913 and sets his sights on Sinaloa The Mexican Revolution explodes in 1910 and Sinaloa suffers
Inept vote fraud triggers the Mexican Revolution in 1910 Mexico drifts toward revolution while Sinaloa continues to prosper in the early 1900s Johnston founds Los Mochis in 1893 and radically expands the economy of northern Sinaloa by cultivating sugarcane The sinking of the SS City of Veracruz on Augoff Florida sets the founding of Topolobampo, Sinaloa, back seven yearsĪlbert Kimsey Owen founds Topolobampo in 1887 and creates a port of inestimable value for Sinaloa Stateīenjamin F. Two American Utopian Socialists fundamentally change Sinaloa in the late 1800sĪlbert Kimsey Owen first sees Topolobampo harbor in the 1870s and imagines its future as an international port Porfirian Era brings increased prosperity The French Empire in Mexico collapses and Sinaloa is liberated in November 1866 Mazatlan surrenders to the French Imperial Army on November 13, 1864įrench Colonial Occupation of Mazatlán NovemNovember 13, 1866 The Port of Mazatlán is blockaded by the French Navy in March, 1864Ī divided Mazatlan struggles to survive the French blockade, March - November 1864 In 1861 Napoleon III sets his sights on Mexico and Sinaloa silver mines The Reform War of 1858 - 1861 sets the stage for the French Intervention and the occupation of Mazatlán in the 1860s The United States and Mexico go to war in 1846 and Mazatlán suffers Run-up to the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 along the Pacific Coast Independent Mexico - and Sinaloa - becomes ruled by criollosġ800s Sinaloa prospers while most of Mexico faces economic hardship and war Mexico secedes from the Spanish Empire and Sinaloa becomes a Mexican State The Jesuits succeed where Spanish military force had failedĪgustín de Vildósola defeats the Yaqui and restores Spanish dominance in the 1740s The Conquistadors test the strength of northern Sinaloa tribes in the early 1600s Mining and missionaries become engines of change and harbingers of conflict Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán and his Conquistadors march through Sinaloa in 1531 sowing death and destructionĮnglish privateer Thomas Cavendish seizes the Spanish galleon Santa Ana Spanish Conquistadors invade the Americas in 1519 and the Aztec Empire falls in 1521 Sinaloa before the Spanish Conquest of Mexico