- Frida is born July 6 to Guillermo Kahlo (German/Austro/Hungarian, photographer, Jewish) and Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez, (Mestiza-Spanish/Indigenous, Catholic) in Coyoacan, near Mexico City.
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- Mexican Revolution begins.
- At the age of 7 Frida contracts polio leaving right leg shorter and weaker.
- Frida matriculates at National Preparatory School (NPS), Mexico�s most prestigious high school.
Frida is one of 35 females in a class of males, in a pre med program, indicating her brilliant mind and ambitious life plan.
- At the age of 17 Frida meets Diego Rivera (36 yrs old), who is painting a mural at NPS.
- On Sep 17, returning home from school with her boy friend Alejandro Gomez Arias, a streetcar smashes into the bus and Frida sustains multiple severe injuries (a steel rod enters her left side and exits through her vagina; her pelvis, spinal column, collarbone, and two ribs are broken; her right leg has 11 fractures; her right foot