The Dahlia History
Time line
Last updated 12 February, 2007
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| 5000BC | Maize Grown in Mesoamerica for food. | |||||
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< Earliest drawing of
Dahlia used in symbolic reference to the Chief - proposed by Richard K.Cook Dahlias used as headbands, mainly by women of Mixtec culture as part of matrimony and possibly Mextec (Aztec Culture) as well. Ref: Richard K.Cook
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| 1492 | Christopher Columbus starts out on his first voyage (August 1492 to March 1493) | |||||
| 1493 | Christopher Columbus starts out on his second voyage (September 1493 to June 1496) | |||||
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Christopher Columbus starts out on his third voyage (May 1498 to November 1500) |
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Christopher Columbus starts out on his fourth voyage (May 1502 to November 1504) |
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| Motecuzoma II becomes Aztec emperor | ||||||
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| 1517 | Hernández de Córdoba, lands at Catoche, Campeche and Chanpotón in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico and is attacked by the Maya. | |||||
| 1519 | Smallpox epidemic in the Spanish controlled Antilles. | |||||
| Hernan Cortés lands at Vera Cruz and later in November enters the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan | ||||||
| 1520's | Smallpox epidemic in Tenochtitlan. | |||||
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Hernan Cortés has Motecuzoma II, Aztec emperor executed. Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan burnt to the ground and the Aztec nobles & priests are murdered. |
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| 1529 |
Friar Bernardino de sahagún arrives in Mexico and would later write the first western account of the Dahlia (Acocoxochitl). |
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| 1780's | Martin de Sessé y Lacasta (Physician) moved to Mexico City. | |||||
| 1787 | Nicholas Joseph Thierry de Menonville, see dahlias growing in Guaxaca (Oaxaca). | |||||
| Martin de Sessé y Lacasta (Physician) & Jose Mariano Mociño set out to collect plants for the Mexico's Botanical Garden | ||||||
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French Revolution |
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| Either in 1789 or 1790 Martin de Sessé y Lacasta's colleague Vincente Cervantes, (Later Director of the Mexican Botanical Gardens) sent Dahlia seed to Madrid. | ||||||
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Dahlia pinnata
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| 1791 |
Abbe Cavanilles published "Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum" in which he dedicated the Genus Dahlia, to Andre Dahl, a Swedish botanist and named the multi ray plant that had been raised from the seed that Cervantes had sent, as Dahlia pinnata.
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| 1795 |
Abbe Cavanilles published "Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum, Vol 3" in October, that adds two more Dahlia species, Dahlia coccinea & Dahlia rosea |
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| 1801 | Abbe Cavanilles becomes Director of Real Madrid Botanical Garden | |||||
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Britain at war with France |
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| John Frasier introduces Dahlia coccinea from France John Woodford grows what is claimed to be Dahlia rosea from France but is the first Garden Dahlia to be grown in Britain | ||||||
| 1804 | Britain declares war with Spain. | |||||
| Abbe Cavanilles dies in the May 1804 | ||||||
| Alexander Humboldt & Bonpland return home to France, from their voyage of exploration of South and Central America. They bring back seed of Dahlia coccinea. | ||||||
| Lady Holland sends seed to Britain and this is the main baises for the beginning of garden Dahlias in Britain | ||||||
| 1805 | Battle of Trafalgar | |||||
| Lady Holland 's Librarian raises two seedlings from Lady Holland's Dahlia pinnata purpurea No 1. | ||||||
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Alexander Humboldt sends to Wildenow (Berlin Botanical Garden, Germany) seed of Dahlia coccinea, that is germinated and flowered in 1805. |
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| Richard Salisbury (1761 - 1829) grows Dahlia plants for the first time | ||||||
| 1806 | Richard Salisbury (1761 - 1829) receives Dahlia seed from Lady Holland's garden. | |||||
| John Wedgewood (1766 - 1844 ) founder of the Royal Horticultural Society grows Dahlia plants for the first time | ||||||
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| 1808 | Madrid under French control. | |||||
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Richard Salisbury writes for the Horticultural Society (Later the Royal Horticultural Society) on the different species of Dahlia and the best method of cultivation in Great Britain. |
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John Wedgewood founder of the R.H.S writes about his achievements at growing Dahlias in Staffordshire for the Horticultural Society (Later the R.H.S) . |
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| 1815 | Battle of Waterloo, the end of Napoleons control of Europe | |||||
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The United States illegally goes to war with Mexico, due to American troops being fired upon by Mexican Army after they had entered Mexican territory illegally. |
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| 1848 | The United States defeats Mexico and American troops occupy Mexico City. | |||||
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| 1861 | The American Civil war begins. | |||||
| 1865 | The American Civil War ends. | |||||
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First world war begins. |
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| 1918 | First world war ends on the 11th day of the 11 month. | |||||
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| 1939 | Second world war begins | |||||
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| 1945 | Second world war ends. | |||||
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| 1969 |
Paul D Sørensen, published in Rhodora, "Revision of the Genus Dahlia (Asteraceae: Heliantheae-Coreopsidinae)". |
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| 1995 |
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Jen P.Hjerting, Paul Sørensen & Dayle Saar Jointly travel through Mexico collecting species Dahlias and add six more species to the list, Dahlia campanulata, Dahlia neglecta, Dahlia hjertingii, Dahlia cuspidata, Dahlia spectabillis, Dahlia parvibracteata See Species Dahlias |
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