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Diez y Seis de Septiembre
On this day in 1810, Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's grito de Dolores ("cry of Dolores") at the village of Dolores, near Guanajuato, called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexico. On September 16, 1825, the Republic of Mexico officially declared September 16 its national Independence Day. In Texas, Diez y Seis de Septiembre has been celebrated in San Antonio for more than 167 years and in Goliad for 160 years. Along with Cinco de Mayo, the holiday is one of the Fiestas Patrias celebrated by Mexican Americans throughout the Southwest.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- FIESTAS PATRIAS
- MEXICAN AMERICANS
- MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
- HIDALGO Y COSTILLA, MIGUEL
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Mexico releases remaining Texas captives from Perote Prison (1844)
- Independent Democrats oppose KKK (1922)
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