Agustín de Iturbide, the general who helped secure Mexican independence from Spanish rule, was proclaimed Emperor Agustín I in 12 July 1822, but was overthrown by the Plan of Casa Mata the next year.

In 1863, the invading French, under Napoleon III ( see above ), in alliance with Mexican conservatives and nobility, helped create the Second Mexican Empire, and invited Archduke Maximilian, of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, younger brother of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I, to become emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.

* 1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Mexican Empire.

Replacement of President of Mexico Benito Juárez ( 1861 – 1863 ) at first with Juan Nepomuceno Almonte ( 1863 – 1864 ) and then by Emperor Maximilian of Mexico ( 1864 – 1867 ) with the establishment of the Second Mexican Empire.

* March 19 – Agustin de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico, abdicates thus ending the short-lived First Mexican Empire.

In 1867, on the orders of Napoleon III General François Achille Bazaine arrived in Toulon without an official welcome after abandoning the Mexican military campaign and Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.

* 1864-65-Maximilian Affair: In defiance of the Monroe Doctrine, French Emperor Napoleon III placed Archduke Maximilian on Mexican throne, America warns France against intervention, with 50, 000 combat troops being sent to the Mexican border by President Andrew Johnson ; Maximilian overthrown

But in 1823, a revolution in Mexico ousted Emperor Agustín de Iturbide, and a new Mexican congress voted to allow the Central American provinces to decide their own fate.

Offered a position ( and $ 10, 000 in gold ) as adjutant general of the army of Benito Juárez of Mexico, who was then in a struggle with the Mexican Emperor Maximilian I ( a satellite ruler of French Emperor Napoleon III ), Custer applied for a one-year leave of absence from the U. S. Army, which was endorsed by Grant and Secretary of War Stanton.

Spain and Britain soon withdrew after realizing that the French Emperor Napoleon III intended to overthrow the government and establish a Second Mexican Empire.

Meanwhile Maximilian von Habsburg, a younger brother of the Emperor of Austria, was proclaimed Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico on 20 April 1864 with the backing of Napoleon III and a group of Mexican conservatives.

One exception was helping the Mexican Juarez against French troops of Emperor Maximilian, as occurred in radio episodes such as " Supplies for Juarez " ( 18 September 1939 ), " Hunted by Legionnaires " ( 20 September 1939 ) and " Lafitte's Reinforcements " ( 22 September 1939 ).

Emperor Maximilian, ruler of the Second Mexican Empire from 1864 – 1867, minted the first coins with the legend " peso " on them.

He started fighting the independents with the Spanish Royal Army, later consumed the Mexican independence from Spain and was Mexico's First Emperor.

After the liberation of Mexico was secured, he was proclaimed President of the Regency in 1821 and Constitutional Emperor of the new nation, reigning as Emperor briefly from 19 May 1822 to 19 March 1823, and he is credited as the original designer of the first Mexican flag.

The Second Mexican Empire collapsed in 1867, and its Emperor, Maximilian I of Mexico, was executed.

In late 1861 Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, under the Treaty of London ( 1861 ) sent a joint expeditionary force to Mexico, alongside Spanish and British forces, to protect their interests and collect the debts owed by the previous Mexican government.

With the backing of France, the Habsburg Archduke Maximilian became Emperor of Mexico in the short-lived Second Mexican Empire.

The captured Mexico City, creating the Second Mexican Empire and placing Emperor Maximillian on the throne in Mexico City.

During his reign, he also set about creating the Second Mexican Empire ( headed by his choice of Maximilian I of Mexico, a member of the House of Habsburg ), to regain France's hold in the Americas and to achieve greatness for the ' Latin ' race.

* 1867 – Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.

Later in the 19th century, France invaded Mexico ( 1861 ) and set Maximilian I on the Mexican throne, which lasted until 1867.

With the support of Mexican conservatives and French troops, in 1863 Napoleon installed Maximilian I of Mexico, a Habsburg prince, as emperor.

Due to continued losses inflicted by the Mexican guerrillas loyal to the Republic and the threat of an American military intervention, Napoleon withdrew French troops from Mexico in 1866, which left Maximilian and the Mexican monarchists doomed to defeat in 1867.

Despite Napoleon's pleas that he abdicate and leave Mexico, Maximilian refused to abandon the Mexican conservatives who had supported him, and remained alongside them until the bitter end, when he was captured by the Republicans and then shot on 19 June 1867.

On 1864, however, after the French intervention, the conservative Mexicans restored the constitutional monarchy, known as the Second Mexican Empire, led by the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and supported by the French army of Napoleon III.

In response to the French invasion and the elevation of Maximilian, Juárez sent General Plácido Vega y Daza to the U. S. state of California to gather Mexican American sympathy for Mexico's plight.

Maximilian, who personally harbored liberal and Mexican nationalist sympathies, offered Juárez amnesty, and later the post of prime minister, but Juárez refused to accept either a government " imposed by foreigners " or a monarchy.

The British Pacific Island Company acquired the rights to Clipperton's guano deposits in 1906, and built a mining settlement on the island in conjunction with the Mexican government.

Mexican HMMWVs are similar to the American built models but are slightly longer and feature a standard selective shift automatic transmission connected to a Mercedes Benz diesel engine and an anti-spalling layer in the passenger cabin.

* Gaspar Yanga's Revolt ( c. 1570 ) near the Mexican city of Veracruz ; the group escaped to the highlands and built a free colony

The mission was built by the Mexican authorities as a barrier to Russia's attempts to extend control to the federal territory of Alta California.

The highway was built by the Mexican government to improve Baja California's economy and increase tourism.

These models have the larger windshield, rear window, door and quarter glass starting in 1971 ; and the rear window from 1965 to 1971 German built models was used on the Mexican models from 1972 to 1985, when it was replaced with the larger rear window used on 1972 and later German built Beetles.

The irrigation project, creating Medina Lake, was built by 1500 skilled workers, mostly Mexican, who worked in shifts operating 24 hours a day to complete the dam in two years.

The Mexican Government laid the groundwork for a new airport to be built on the outskirts of Mexico City.

Soon after it was built, it was secularized by the Mexican government under the orders of Lieutenant, later General, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.

Given the growth of the town of Oxnard, in the spring of 1898, a railroad station was built to service the plant, which attracted a population of Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican laborers and enough commerce to merit the designation of a town.

The Carranza Monument was built with funds from Mexican schoolchildren, Hampton Gates Road was renamed Carranza Road for the pilot.

In 1880 the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central Railway reached the area and built Duncan Switch, named for a line foreman.

Ben Leaton and Milton Faver, former scalp hunters for the Mexican government, built private forts in the area.

Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu ( 27 September 1783 – 19 July 1824 ), also known as Augustine I of Mexico, was a Mexican army general who built a successful political and military coalition that was able to march into Mexico City on 27 September 1821, decisively ending the Mexican War of Independence.

They built the Fuerza de San Pedro ( Fortress of Saint Peter ), which provided a haven for arriving Mexican ships and protection from hostile natives.

In the colonial period, the Chapultepec Castle would be built here, eventually becoming the official residence of Mexican heads of state.

The Mexican federal government lists 1, 113 buildings built from the 16th to the 20th century as having historical value.

One of the most famous monuments of the Paseo is El Ángel de la Independencia – a tall column with a gilded statue of a Winged Victory ( that bears resemblance with an angel, therefore its common name ) on its top and many marble statues on its base depicting the heroes of the Mexican War of Independence, built to commemorate the centennial of Mexico's independence in 1910.

Remarkable buildings built ( or under construction ) in recent years are Torre Mayor, Torre HSBC in the Ángel roundabout, Torre Libertad with St. Regis Hotel in the Diana fountain roundabout, and Reforma 222 designed by famous Mexican architect Teodoro González de León at Reforma and Havre St.

The idea is from England, but this version was built by a Mexican organization.

Loud's Artillery Co. with four 18 pounders, & Lt. Bragg's Light Artillery four guns ) which the Mexicans viewed as having been built within the boundaries of Mexican Texas.

Castillo built a record of 24 wins and 7 losses, with 11 knockout wins, before facing José Medel for the Mexican Bantamweight title on 29 April 1967.