Convention of Aguascalientes

Convention of Aguascalientes

Photograph of Pancho Villa seated in the presidential chair, together with Emiliano Zapata
Native name	Soberana Convención Revolucionaria
English name	Sovereign Revolutionary Convention
Date	October 10 – November 9, 1914 (1914-10-10 – 1914-11-09)
Venue	Chamber of Deputies, later Morelos Theater
Location	Aguascalientes
Type	Convention
Cause	Mexican Revolution
Motive	Unity of revolutionary forces
Organised by	Conventionists
Participants	Villistas, Zapatistas
Outcome	Election of Eulalio Gutiérrez as President of Mexico, formation of the Conventionist Army and beginning of the civil war with the Constitutionalists

The Convention of Aguascalientes was a major meeting that took place during the Mexican Revolution between the factions in the Mexican Revolution that had defeated Victoriano Huerta's Federal Army and forced his resignation and exile in July 1914.

The call for the convention was issued on 1 October 1914 by Venustiano Carranza, head of the Constitutional Army, who described it as the Gran Convención de Jefes militares con mando de fuerzas y gobernadores de los Estados ("Great Convention of Commanding Military Chiefs and State Governors") and seen as "the last attempt to create unity among the revolutionaries."^[1]

Its first sessions were held in the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City, but were later transferred to the city of Aguascalientes, hence its name came, where it met from 10 October to 9 November 1914.