Mexico had a 19th century civil war called the War of the Reform.
Mexico . The Pastry War , the Franco-Mexican War , a civil war , two empires and a domestic dictatorship occurred through the 19th century . The War of the Reform ( Guerra de Reforma ) in Mexico , during the Second Federal Republic of Mexico , was the three-year civil war ( 1857 - 1860 ) between liberals who had taken power in 1855 under the Plan of Ayutla , and conservatives resisting the legitimacy of the government and its radical restructuring of Mexican laws , known as La Reforma .