1976 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Luis Echeverría, José López Portillo
• 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:
• Secretary of Public Education:
• Tourism Secretary :

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes
• Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
• Baja California Sur: Ángel César Mendoza Arámburo
• Campeche: Rafael Rodríguez Barrera
• Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Suárez, Jorge de la Vega Domínguez
• Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre
• Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
• Colima: Arturo Noriega Pizano
• Durango: Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez
• Guanajuato: Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
• Guerrero: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
• State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
• Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León: Pedro Zorrilla Martínez
• Oaxaca: Miguel Zárate Aquino
• Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara
• Querétaro: Antonio Calzada Urquiza
• Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross
• San Luis Potosí: Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez
• Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón
• Sonora: Alejandro Carrillo Marcor
• Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
• Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González
• Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras
• Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
• Yucatán: Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, Francisco Luna Kan
• Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo

  Events

• Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey founded.
• Organizacion Editorial Mexicana founded.
• Universidad Intercontinental established.
• March 15: Autonomous University of Baja California Sur established.
• July 4: 1976 Mexican general election
• September 7 – 11: Hurricane Kathleen
• September 29 – October 8: Hurricane Madeline
• October 1: Instituto Tecnológico de Nuevo León established.
• November 6: first issue of Proceso published.
• December 15: The Trolleybuses in Guadalajara start operating.

  Births

• June 7: Nora Salinas, actress
• June 10: Mariana Seoane, model, singer, and actress
• July 8: Grettell Valdez, television and film actress and former fashion model
• December 3: Arleth Terán, soap opera actress

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1976

  Sport

• 1975–76 Mexican Primera División season
• Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League
• Mexico at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Mexico at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
• 1976 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in Xalapa.