Included are major actions at the battles of and , culminating with the fall of Mexico City.
After was achieved, the was created in 1824.
UNAM ranked 74th in the Top 200 World published by then called Times Higher Education Supplement in 2006, making it the highest ranked Spanish-speaking university in the world.
After a decade of war, Mexico's independence from Spain was effectively declared in the Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire on 27 September 1821.