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1907 - Born on July 6th in Coyoacan, Mexico. A unibrowed Mexican painter.
1922 - Kahlo was enrolled in the Preparatoria, one of Mexico's premier schools, where she was one of only thirty-five girls.
1925 - Kahlo suffered the serious accident which was to set the pattern for much of the rest of her life. She was traveling in a bus which collided with a tramcar, and suffered serious injuries to her right leg and pelvis.
- The accident was said to be integral themes of her artistic career.
1926 - She painted her first self-portrait, the beginning of a long series in which she charted the events of her life and her emotional reactions to them.
1929 - Married to Diego Rivera on August 21st.
1931 - Went to New York for the Rivera retrospective organized by the Museum of Modern Art.
1932 - Rivera was commissioned to paint a major series of murals for the Detroit Museum, and here Kahlo suffered a miscarriage.
1938 - She was offered a show at the fashionable Julian Levy Gallery in New York.
1950 - Her physical state reached a crisis, and she had to go into hospital in Mexico City, where she remained for a year.
1953 - Kahlo had her first solo exhibition in Mexico (the only one held in her native country during her lifetime).
1954 - She made her last public appearance, when she participated in a Communist demonstration against the overthrow of the left-wing Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz.
- Died of respiratory failure on July 13th in Mexico City.
1922 - Kahlo was enrolled in the Preparatoria, one of Mexico's premier schools, where she was one of only thirty-five girls.
1925 - Kahlo suffered the serious accident which was to set the pattern for much of the rest of her life. She was traveling in a bus which collided with a tramcar, and suffered serious injuries to her right leg and pelvis.
- The accident was said to be integral themes of her artistic career.
1926 - She painted her first self-portrait, the beginning of a long series in which she charted the events of her life and her emotional reactions to them.
1929 - Married to Diego Rivera on August 21st.
1931 - Went to New York for the Rivera retrospective organized by the Museum of Modern Art.
1932 - Rivera was commissioned to paint a major series of murals for the Detroit Museum, and here Kahlo suffered a miscarriage.
1938 - She was offered a show at the fashionable Julian Levy Gallery in New York.
1950 - Her physical state reached a crisis, and she had to go into hospital in Mexico City, where she remained for a year.
1953 - Kahlo had her first solo exhibition in Mexico (the only one held in her native country during her lifetime).
1954 - She made her last public appearance, when she participated in a Communist demonstration against the overthrow of the left-wing Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz.
- Died of respiratory failure on July 13th in Mexico City.
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