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7 unusual facts about Iturbide


Antonio María Martínez

On July 18, 1821, Martínez was forced to issue orders requiring the oath of allegiance to Iturbide.

Agustín de Iturbide was in possession of Mexico, and Martínez, at the request of the Baron de Bastrop, approved Moses Austin's petition for permission to bring 300 settlers into Texas.

Galeana, Nuevo León

Galeana shares borders with the states of Coahuila and San Luis Potosí to the west; with the municipalities of Aramberri and Doctor Arroyo to the south; Rayones to the north; and with Linares, Montemorelos, Rayones and Iturbide to the east.

Lucas Alamán

Under the junta that governed Mexico after the fall of Iturbide, Alamán served from 1823 to 1825 in the powerful post of Minister of Interior and Exterior Relations (Ministro de Relaciones Interiores e Exteriores, combining the duties of a foreign minister, interior minister and minister of justice).

Salvador de Iturbide y Huarte

Prince Salvador of Mexico, also named Salvador de Iturbide y Huarte (1820 - June 7, 1856) was the eighth child (and third son) of Agustín I of Mexico and Empress Ana Maria Huarte.

Agustín de Iturbide y Aramburu

When Maximilian I of Mexico was crowned emperor, he contacted the Iturbide family to ask for the adoption of two boys: His Highness, Agustín de Iturbide y Green, son of Ángel, and His Highness Salvador de Iturbide y Marzán (his own).


Agustín de Iturbide y Green

When Maximilian and Carlota ascended the throne of Mexico in 1863 with the support of the French troops of Napoleon III, the new monarchs invited the Iturbide family back to Mexico.

Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte

The daughter, called Doña Jesusa de Iturbide, would later marry the prominent Peruvian politician Nicolás de Piérola (They were first cousins).

Graciela Iturbide

In 1979, Iturbide was asked by painter Francisco Toledo to photograph his village, Juchitán de Zaragoza, where the women were economically, politically, and sexually independent.

Manuel Rocha Iturbide

In these years, Manuel Rocha Iturbide worked with Curtis Roads and Barry Truax, two of the most important pioneers on granular synthesis computer music techniques.

Military history of Mexico

Thus although independence from Spain was first proclaimed in 1810, it was not formalized until 1821, under the Treaty of Córdoba, which was signed on September 16 in Córdoba, Veracruz, by the Spanish viceroy Juan de O'Donojú and Agustín de Iturbide, ratifying the Plan de Iguala.

Sabina de Iturbide y Huarte

Doña Sabina de Iturbide y Huarte, Princess of Mexico (born 1808 in Valladolid, Michoacán – died 1871) was a Mexican princess during the short-lived First Mexican Empire and a member of the Imperial House of Iturbide.


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