Rebellious generals Manuel Mondragón, Gregorio Ruiz, and others hatch their plans to overthrow Madero. Commanding students from the Escuela Militar de Aspirantes and other rebel partisans, they free general Bernardo Reyes from the military prison of Santiago Tlaltelolco and general Félix Díaz from the penitentiary of the Distrito Federal. Bernardo Reyes leads some of the rebels in a struggle to take over the National Palace, but his is killed in front of the building by troops layal to madero. Gregorio Ruiz is captured in action at the Plaza de Armas and executed shortly after.

Madero names general Victoriano Huerta commander of the Plaza de Armas and supreme commander of the federal armed forces.

Huerta betrays Madero and joins the counterrevolutionary movement. Madero and Pino Suárez are put under house arrest in the National Palace. Huerta assumes both military and civil power.