Revolutionary forces occupy Pachuca, Mazatlán, Toluca, and Cuernavaca. Interim President Carbajal leaves the capital for Veracruz to go into exile. The Mexican government, including the legislature and the judicial branch, dissolve.

The Constitutionalist Army under the command of Álvaro Obregón enters and takes over Mexico City. On 20 August 1914, Venustiano Carranza enters triumphantly into Mexico City as chief of the Constitutionalist Army and assumes executive power.

Francisco Villa repudiates Carranza and refuses to attend a convention scheduled for 1 October in the capital. Instead he releases a manifesto from Chihuahua.

Negotiations between Zapata and Carranza for the former to honor the Carranza regime fail.

A convention takes place of governors and generals controlled by Carranza and his followers. Both Villa and Zapata refuse to attend and the convention is suspended without conclusion, to be renewed in Aguascalientes.

The Convention of Aguascalientes takes place. Carranza refuses to attend. The Convention passes a resolution to terminate Carranza as primer jefe. General Eulalio Gutiérrez is named provisional president.

Eulalio Gutiérrez assumes provisional presidency (lasting through 28 May 1915).

Carranza repudiates the actions of the Convention of Aguascalientes and states that he will continue as the head of the poder ejecutivo.

The United States returns the port of Veracruz to Cándido Aguilar, governor of the state of Veracruz, who receives it in the name of Carranza.

The Constitutionalist Army abandons Mexico City and Zapata’s army of the South occupies it. Carranza installs himself in the port of Veracruz, which he declares the capital of the Republic.

Eulalio Gutiérrez, provisional president of Mexico as named by the Convention of Aguascalientes, enters the capital.

Carranza, from Veracruz, reaffirms his Plan de Guadalupe until his revolutionary agenda has triumphed completely.

The convention that was established in Aguascalientes renews its sessions in Mexico City.

Faced with the advancing Constitutionalist Army of Carranza, Eulalio Gutiérrez withdraws from Mexico City with a number of his ministers.

As the Constitutionalist Army approaches, the convention withdraws from Mexico City to Cuernavaca.

Carranza’s Constitutionalist Army occupies Mexico City and a number of other cities in central Mexico in January and February.

Zapata’s Army of the South, which has defeated Carranza’s Constitutionalist Army in a number of battles, reoccupies Mexico City.

Convention returns to Mexico City as the center of power and renews its sessions.