Aquiles Serdán Alatriste (November 1, 1876 – November 18, 1910), born in the city of Puebla, Puebla

Puebla, Puebla

The city and municipality of Puebla is the capital of the state of Puebla, and one of the five most important colonial cities in Mexico. Being a planned city, it is located to the east of Mexico City and west of Mexico's main port, Veracruz, on the main route between the two.The city was founded...

, was a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 politician who took part in the Mexican Revolution

Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements. Over time the Revolution...

 as an opponent of Porfirio Díaz

Porfirio Díaz

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican-American War volunteer and French intervention hero, an accomplished general and the President of Mexico continuously from 1876 to 1911, with the exception of a brief term in 1876 when he left Juan N...

, supporting Francisco I. Madero

Francisco I. Madero

Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913. As a respectable upper-class politician, he supplied a center around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce...

 and Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio Díaz. He formed and commanded an important revolutionary force, the Liberation Army of the South, during the Mexican Revolution...

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He was killed at his home in Puebla, along with part of his family, by the federal army, who discovered his involvement in Madero's movement. He was the first martyr of the revolution.

The northern municipality of Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua

Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua

Aquiles Serdán is a one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Santa Eulalia. The municipality covers an area of 651.1 km².As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 3,742....

, was renamed in his honour in 1932; he is also remembered by Metro Aquiles Serdán

Metro Aquiles Serdán

Metro Aquiles Serdán is a station along Line 7 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Colonia La Preciosa neighborhood of the Azcapotzalco borough of northwestern Mexico City....

, a station on the Mexico City Metro

Mexico City Metro

The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...

. His house is now located in Puebla, Puebla and is open as a museum and everything is as he left it when he was killed.