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July 6th, 1907 Born
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón was born in Coyoacán, a small town near Mexico City. -
She have contracted polyomyelitis
This medical condition forced her to stay in bed for nine months. -
Attends National High School
In this school she met future Mexican intellectuals and artists. -
She has a serious accident
The bus on which she was travelling was run over by a train, crushed against a wall and completely destroyed. Suffering from gravity fractures -
She starts to paint
He painted his first self-portrait dedicated to Alejandro Gómez Arias. -
His painting became more complex
He painted the portrait of Miguel N. Lira, where he shows his companion in a very particular and symbolic background full of objects and signs that allude to his name. -
She married with Diego Rivera
The marriage was called the union between an elephant and a dove, as Diego was huge and obese while she was small and thin. -
Having her first abortion
Due to the abnormal position of the fetus and the aftermath of the 1925 accident, the three-month pregnancy had to be terminated. Frida could never have children. -
June 13, 1954 Death
He died in Coyoacán. No autopsy was performed. His remains were veiled in the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City and his coffin was covered with the Mexican Communist Party flag. Her body was cremated at the Civil Crematorium in Dolores and her ashes are kept in the Casa Azul in Coyoacán, the place where she was born.