Padilla, Tamaulipas

[1] Padilla is known for being the place where the Mexican liberator and Emperor Agustín de Iturbide was executed by a firing squad.

[2] It is also the place where Manuel de Mier y Terán, a Mexican general, took his life with a sword.

[3] The town was established on 6 January 1749 by José de Escandón, then a Spanish Indian-fighter in New Spain and the founder and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander.

The town was named after Maria Padilla, the wife of Juan Francisco de Güemes, the viceroy of New Spain.

[6] The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reported that a blackout that affected 12 states of the country and more than 10 million users on December 28, 2020, was caused by a fire in 30 hectares (74 acres) of grasslands in Padilla.