1973 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Luis Echeverría
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• 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

• January 30: The 7.5 Colima earthquake causes 56 deaths, 390 injuries, and a non-destructive tsunami in Mexico.
• June 16: The Brothers Serdán Baseball stadium opens.
• June 19: Autonomous University of Aguascalientes established.
• June 20: Aeroméxico Flight 229.
• July 1: 1973 Mexican legislative election.
• August 28: 1973 Veracruz earthquake.

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1973.

  Sport

• 1972–73 Mexican Primera División season.
• Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
• Lobos de Tlaxcala founded.
• Club Deportivo Tapatío is founded when CD Guadalajara buy a Tercera División license.

  Births

• January 17 — Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican soccer player and politician, Governor of Morelos 2018-2024
• February 22 – Mr. Niebla,, wrestler;.
• May 20 — Patricia Navidad, actress and singer
• June 5 — Galilea Montijo, actress, comedienne, model, and TV presenter
• June 20 — Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, Governor of Jalisco 2018–2024
• June 22 — Jaime Camil, singer and actor
• August 16 — Mauricio Islas, actor
• September 19
• *Javier Duarte de Ochoa, politician ; Governor of Veracruz 2010-2016, arrested for alleged corruption April 15, 2016
• * David Zepeda, actor, model, and singer
• December 17 — Martha Érika Alonso, Governor of Puebla 2018

  Deaths

• December 3 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 47th President of Mexico, 1952-1958