1956 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
• Interior Secretary : Ángel Carvajal Bernal
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

• The Chemical Society of Mexico is formed.
• April 30: The opening of the Torre Latinoamericana.

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1956

  Sport

• 1955–56 Mexican Primera División season
• The Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
• Mexico participate at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
• Establishment of the Mexican Center League.
• January 1: Club de Futbol Ballenas Galeana Morelos is founded.

  Births

• March 23 — Fidel Demédicis Hidalgo was a federal senator from Morelos
• April 21 — Ángel Aguirre Rivero, constitutional Governor of Guerrero 2011–2014 and interim Governor of Guerrero 1996–1999
• June 8 — René Juárez Cisneros, Governor of Guerrero 1999-2005 and current federal Senator
• June 15 — Francisco Olvera Ruiz, Governor of Hidalgo 2011–2016
• June 22 — Manuel Saval, soap opera actor
• July 31 — Laura Zapata, Mexican telenovela actress, singer and dancer
• August 15 – Arnulfo Mejía Rojas, engineer, architect, teacher, historian, painter, artist, and Catholic priest, best known for being the creator of "The Boat of the Faith".
• September 8 – Ricardo Torres Origel, Mexican politician Deputy and Senator from Guanajuato.
• October 13 — Ana Bertha Espín, actress
• October 19 — Francisco Rojas San Román, politician from the State of Mexico.
• Date unknown — Rosario Robles, politician, acting Mayor of Mexico City 1999-2000

  Deaths