Events
- February 11 – Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announces the discovery of a 16th-century mass grave at the Tlatelolco archaeological site in Mexico City.
- March 4 – 2009 Mexico prison riot: A riot at a prison near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, kills at least 20 inmates and injures seven others.
- March 17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in an bus accident outside Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
- April 10 – Mexico City closes freshwater supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages.
- April 19 – Eight corrections officers are killed in an ambush during a prisoner transfer in Nayarit, Mexico.
- April 25 – Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza.
- April 27 – 2009 Guerrero earthquake: A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico.
- May 16 – The Gulf drug cartel liberates 59 inmates from a prison in Zacatecas, Mexico.
- May 22 – A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, Mexico.
- June 6 – 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire: a fire at a day-care center kills at least 40 people in Hermosillo, Mexico.
- July 3 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of Cortez shakes western Mexico.
- July 5 – Mexico holds its legislative election.
- August 3 – Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude, hit northwestern Mexico.
- August 7 – 2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings: Shootouts leave at least 11 dead in the escalating violence since Mexico's continuing national crackdown on the illegal drug trade.
- August 15 – A prison riot in the Mexican state of Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.
- August 21 – Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for "personal use".
- September 9 – Aeroméxico Flight 576, a Boeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off from Cancún, and forced to land at Mexico City International Airport.
- September 16 – Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico.
- December 16 – Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltrán Leyva, leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, is killed by personnel of the Mexican Navy during a shootout in Cuernavaca, Morelos.
- December 21 – Mexico City's Legislative Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption.
- December 25 – The death by gunshot wound of Expresiones de Tulum journalist Alberto Velázquez, the 12th journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2009, is announced.
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