On This Day: Mexican Independence Day (1810)

Father Hidalgo rang a church bell in Dolores and started a revolution.

Mexican Independence Day celebrates the Grito de Dolores, the call to arms issued by Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in the town of Dolores in the early morning hours of September 16, 1810. The eleven-year war that followed resulted in Mexican independence in 1821. The holiday is one of th