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| 1904 |
| | | The US consul in Mexico, Edward Herbert Thompson, begins a very profitable excavation at the Mayan site of Chichén Itzá | |
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| 1908 |
| | | George McJunkin, near Folsom in New Mexico, sees the bones of an extinct giant bison, partially exposed after a flash flood, with an ancient spear point embedded in the skeleton | |
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| 1910 |
| | | A revolution begins in Mexico that will last ten years before being resolved | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Emiliano Zapata leads peasant groups in the Mexican revolution, under the slogan 'Land and Liberty' | |
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| 1912 |
| | | New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the United States of America | |
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| 1917 March 1 |
| | | A deciphered telegram, from the German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann, inflames US public opinion by promising Texas and more to Mexico | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Ten years of violent revolution in Mexico are brought to and end in a successful coup by Alvaro Obregón | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Diego Rivera, returning from his study of Italian frescoes, begins the first of his influential murals depicting Mexican history | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Mysterious German author B. Traven writes a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, about three Americans searching for a lost gold mine in Mexico | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin | |
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