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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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| 1929 |
| | Plutarco Calles establishes the National Revolutionary Party that will hold power in Mexico, under different names, for the rest of the century | |
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| 1929 |
| | An American Indian teenager, Ridgely Whiteman, finds the remains of a butchered mammoth near Clovis in New Mexico - first evidence of the Clovis culture | |
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| 1932 |
| | US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico | |
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| 1933 |
| | 19-year-old Mexican poet Octavio Paz publishes his first collection, Wild Moon | |
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| 1936 |
| | US composer Aaron Copland writes El Salón México, using popular Mexican tunes | |
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| 1938 |
| | Mexico, newly rich from oil, nationalizes the holdings of the foreign oil companies | |
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| 1940 |
| | An assassin sent by Stalin kills the exiled Trotsky in his home in Mexico City | |
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| 1951 |
| | Syntex, a small chemical company in Mexico City, develops the first oral contraceptive | |
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