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 considered her 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 was one of thirty-five girls in an enrollment of two thousand pupils. She secretly admired Diego Rivera’s painting Creation.
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
Trotski 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.