Holidays and celebrations in Mexico:
| Date
| English Name
| Local Name
| Remarks
|
| January 1
| New Year's Day
| Año nuevo
| First day of the year
|
| February 5
| Constitution Day
| Día de la Constitución
| Celebrates the ratification of the Constitution of 1917, adopted after the Mexican Revolution
|
| March 18
| Oil Expropriation
| Expropiación Petrolera
| President Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated oil companies to facilitate Mexico's industrial development. (see 1938)
|
| March 21
| Benito Juárez's Birthday
| Natalicio de Benito Juárez
| Birthday of Benito Juárez, 19th century president and statesman who stood against the French occupation (see Maximilian of Mexico)
|
| May 1
| Labour Day
| Día del Trabajo
| Commemorates the Haymarket Riot of (1886)
|
| May 5
| Cinco de Mayo
| Batalla de Puebla
| Celebrates the victory against French forces in the city of Puebla, on May 5, 1862. It is also widely celebrated in the United States among Mexican-Americans
|
| September 16
| Independence Day
| Día de la Independencia
| Celebrates the Grito de Dolores, an event that marked the start of the independence war against Spain on the eve of September 16, 1810. See also Fiestas Patrias
|
| October 12
| Day of the Race
| Día de la Raza
| Commemorates the discovery of the Americas in 1492 by the italian navigator Cristopher Columbus, who was sponsored by the Spanish soverigns, Isabella of Castille and Ferdinand of Aragón.
|
| November 2
| The Day of The Dead
| Dia de Los Muertos
| Mexicans honour their dead relatives and/or friends with candles, food offerings, altars and pre-Hispanic rituals. See also Day of the Dead
|
| November 20
| Revolution Day
| Día de la Revolución
| Celebrates the beginning of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 (see also Fiestas Patrias)
|
| December 12
| Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe
| Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe
| Celebrates the day that Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared on Tepeyac hill to the native Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
|
| December 25
| Christmas
| Navidad
| Celebrates the nativity of Jesus, also celebrated as secular winter holiday
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