1907
July 6
Born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico, the third of Matilde Calderón and Guillermo Kahlo's four daughters.
Frida Kahlo
Kahlo, Frida. Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird. 1940, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
1913
Frida suffers an attack of poliolyelitis, permanently affecting the use of her right leg.
1922
Frida enters the National Preparatory School, where she meets Diego Rivera.
1925
September 17
Frida is seriously injured in a streetcar accident. She begins to paint during her convalescence.
1926
Frida Kahlo's earliest paintings include portraits of Alicia Galant, her sister Adriana, Miguel N. Lina, and a self portrait dedicated to Alejandria Gomez Arias.
1928
Joins the Mexican Communist Party.
1929
August 21
Frida marries Diego Rivera.
1930
November 10
Moves to San Francisco with Diego.
1931
Paints "Frieda and Diego Rivera" and "Los Tres Amigos".
After a brief trip to Mexico in November, Frida and diego travel to New York for his retrospective exbition at the Museum of Modern Art.
1932
In Detroit for Diego's work on murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Frida is Hospitalized because of severe hemorrhaging.
Frida's mother passes away.
1933
Moves to Mexico with Diego.They live in adjoining studio houses built for them by Juan O'Gorman in San Angel.
Paints "My Dress Hangs There".
Diego begins an affair with Christina Kahlo, Frida's Sister.
1935
Frida and Diego seperate.Frida temporarily takes an apartment in Mexico City, then in July travels to New Yourk. When she returns, the couple reconciles
1937
January 9
On January 9, Leon Trotsky and his wife, Natalia Sedova, arrive in Mexico and stay at the Casa Azul with Frida and Diego
Frida's first exhibit in Mexico
1938
French surrealist Andre Breton visits mexico and meets Frida. American Collector and film actor Edward G. Robinson purchases 4 works, her first significant sale.
From October 25 to November 14, Frida's first one person exhibition is held at the Julian Levy Gallery in New York.
1939
Frida travels to Paris in January for Mexique, an exhibition arranged by Andre Breton which features her paintings. The Lovre purchases her self portrait "The Frame".
Frida returns home in April, and in the Fall she and Diego begin Divorce proceedings, which are finalized in November.
1940
In January The Two Fridas and The Wounded Deer are exhibited in the International Surrealism exhibition arranged by the Gallery of Mexico City.
Frida Goes to San Francisco for further medical treatments from Dr. Eloesser. She shows her work in "The San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition." The Two Fridas is shown in New York at the Museum of Modern arts exhibition "Twenty Centuries on Mexican Art."
December 10
Frida and Diego remarry in San Francisco.
1941
Frida's father passes away.
Frida returns to the family home in Coyoacan to live.
1942
Rivera begins building Anahuacalli, his anthropological museum.
Frida's "Self Portrait with Braid" is included in the exhibition "20th Century Portraits" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
1943
A Frida Kahlo Painting is exhibited in a group show "A century of the Portrait in Mexico (1830-1942)" at the Benjamin Franklin Library, Mexico City. Her work is included in "Mexican Art Today" at the Philidelphia Museum of Art and is shown in Peggy Guggenheim's "Art of This Century" Gallery in New York
Frida begins teaching at the Ministry on Public Education's School of Painting and Sculpture, La Esmeralda
1946
Frida paints The Wounded Deer and Tree of Hope, Stand Firm. She goes to New York for surgery on her spine
1947
September 17
Self Portrait as a Tehuana (Diego in My thoughts) is Exhibited in "45 Self Portraits by Mexican Painters from the XVIII the the XX centuries" at the National Institute of Fine Arts.
1949
Frida Writes the Essay "Portrait of Diego," and she Paints Diego and I and The Love Embrace of the Universe which is exibited at the inaugural exhibition of the salon de la Plastica Mexicana
1950
Frida is hospitalized for 9 months because of reaccuring spinal problems
1951
Frida paints Self Portrait with Portrait of Dr. Juan Farill, several still lifes, and Portrait of my Father
1953
From April 13-27, Frida's only individual exibition in Mexico is held at the Galauna de Arte Contemporaneo
In July, her right leg is amputated below the nkee because of gangrene
1954
Frida is hospitalized in April and May. On July 2, convalescing from bronchial pneumonia, she takes part in a demonstration protesting US intervention in Guatemala. On the night of July 13, she dies.
~ "I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return" ~
-Frida Kahlo
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