Events in the year 1969 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
- Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez (until 10 November), Mario Moya Palencia (starting 11 November)
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Antonio Carrillo Flores
- Communications Secretary (SCT): José Antonio Padilla Segura
- Education Secretary (SEP): Agustín Yáñez
- Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
- Secretary of Navy: Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
- Secretary of Welfare: Gilberto Valenzuela/Luis Enrique Bracamontes
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
Events
- Allende meteorite falls in Allende, Chihuahua.
- The Universidad Regiomontana, the Autonomous University of Nayarit and the University of Monterrey are established.
- Treaty of Tlatelolco
- Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean
- March 31: Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster
- June 4: Mexicana Flight 704
- June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City.
- September 4: Opening of the Mexico City Metro Line 1
Awards
- Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Cámara Vales
Film
- List of Mexican films of 1969
Sport
- 1968–69 Mexican Primera División season
- 1969 Mexican Grand Prix
- May 31 – June 21: 1970 FIFA World Cup
- October 3 – 5: 1969 World Judo Championships held in Mexico City.
Births
- January 13 — Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
- January 31 — Urbano Zea, swimmer who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics; (d. 2018)
- June 17 — Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, lawyer and first female Governor of Sonora starting 2015
- June 29 — Guillermo Padrés Elías, Governor of Sonora 2009–2015. Arrested for embezzlement on November 10, 2016 and released on February 2, 2019
- April 21 — Carlos Mendoza Davis, lawyer and Governor of Baja California Sur starting 2015
- May 9 — Benjamín Rivera, voice actor
- July 9 — Eduardo Santamarina, actor
- August 5 — Diego Schoening, singer, actor, television host
- September 1 — Armando Araiza, actor
- September 28 — Pedro Fernández, singer, songwriter, actor
- October 24 — Adela Noriega, actress
- Date unknown
- Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez, Governor of Tlaxcala starting 2017.
- Armando Mendoza Duarte, politician.
Deaths
- September 22 – Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)
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