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1907: Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo is born July 6, in la Casa Azul in Coyoacán, Mexico, daughter of a German, Wilheim Kahlo, and Mathilde Calderón.

1910: Beginning of the Mexican revolution which overthrows Porfirio Diaz. Kahlo adopted this year as that of her birthday, in line with a new Mexico. Considered an accessory by her father who thought of her as a substitute for a son, she became his assistant in his photograph studio.

1916: Polio leaves her right leg handicapped.

1921: The Mexican government orders a large mural from Diego Rivera – returned to the country after fourteen years spent in Europe – to be sent to the National Preparatory School.

1923: Frida Kahlo enters the National Preparatory School, reserved for the Mexican elite. She is one of thirty-five girls in an enrollment of two thousand pupils. She secretly admires Diego Rivera’s painting La Création.

1925: Frida Kahlo suffers a very serious accident. The bus carrying her is involved in a collision with a tramway. She suffers numerous fractures and internal lesions. She must remain confined to her bed, and begins to paint. Through painting, she expresses the struggle of her existence.

1928: Frida becomes a member of the Mexican Communist Party. She meets Diego Rivera.

1929: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera marry August 21.

1930: Frida Kahlo has a miscarriage in Detroit where Diego Rivera is making a fresco for the Institute of Art before working at the Rockfeller Center in New York. In September, her mother dies.

1934: The couple returns to Mexico. Diego begins his relationship with Cristina, Frida’s sister. Tired of her husband’s attitude, Frida Kahlo moves out and takes Isamu Nogushi as a lover.

1937: Trotsky and his wife take refuge in Mexico and are welcomed at the Casa Azul. The Russian revolutionary has an affair with Frida Kahlo.

1938: André Breton comes to Mexico. The three couples have long discussions about politics and culture. Frida Kahlo has her first exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York: she is able to begin to sell her paintings. She enters into an affair with the photographer Nickolas Muray.

1939: The surrealists dedicate an exposition to her. Diego and Frida divorce in November.

Self-Portrait with Necklace, 1933

Oil on metal, 34.5 × 29.5 cm

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Mexico City

1940: Frida undergoes medical treatment in San Francisco with the help of Dr Eloesser. In August, Diego and Frida remarry.

1941: Her father dies. The couple move into Casa Azul.

1943: Frida becomes a professor at the “Esmeralda” art school. She soon teaches at her home due to health problems.

1946: She receives the national painting prize for her Moses.

1950: Her health worsens. She is subjected to nine operations for the spine.

1953: For the first time in Mexico, an exhibition is dedicated to her courtesy of Cola Alvarez Bravo.

1954: She participates for the last time in a demonstration for peace in Guatemala. Frida Kahlo dies july 13.

1959: After the death of Diego Rivera in 1957, and conforming to his wishes, the Frida Kahlo Museum opens in Casa Azul.

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