Chilpancingo (de los Bravos) Guerrero Mexico

Jose Maria Morelos Pavon assumes the leadership of the revolutionary movement after the death of Hidalgo.

Morelos takes charge of the political and military aspects of the insurrection and further plans a strategic move to encircle Mexico City and to cut communications to the coastal areas.

In June 1813, Morelos convokes a national congress of represen tatives from all of the provinces, which meets at Chilpancingo in the present-day state of Guerrero to discuss the future of Mexico as an independent nation.

The major points included in the document prepared by the congress are popular sovereignty, universal male suffrage, the adoption of Roman Catholicism as the official religion, abolition of slavery and forced labor, an end to government monopolies, and an end to corporal punishment.

Despite initial successes by Morelos's forces, however, the colonial authorities break the siege of Mexico City after six months, capture positions in the surrounding areas, and finally invade Chilpancingo.

Morelos is captured in 1815 and meets the same fate as Hidalgo.

The Congress of Chilpancingo is convened in 1813, and signs the "Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America" on November 6.

José María Morelos is captured and executed on December 22, 1815.