Timeline
1801
Real Madrid Botanical Garden.
Abbe Cavanilles becomes Director of Real Madrid Botanical Garden.
1795
Further Species Named
Abbe Cavanilles published “Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum, Vol 3” in October, that adds two more Dahlia species, Dahlia coccinea &..Read More
1791
“Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum” Published
Abbe Cavanilles published “Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum” in which he dedicated the Genus Dahlia, to Andre Dahl, a Swedish botanist..Read More
1789
Dahlia seed sent to Madrid
Either in 1789 or 1790 Martin de Sessé y Lacasta’s colleague Vincente Cervantes, (Later Director of the Mexican Botanical Gardens)..Read More
1787
Dahlia’s collected for Mexico’s Botanical Garden
Nicholas Joseph Thierry de Menonville, see dahlias growing in Guaxaca Oaxaca. Martin de Sessé y Lacasta (Physician) & Jose Mariano..Read More
1529
First western account of the Dahlia
Friar Bernardino de sahagún arrives in Mexico and would later write the first western account of the Dahlia (Acocoxochitl).
1410
Earliest drawing of Dahlia
Earliest drawing of Dahlia used in symbolic reference to the Chief – proposed by Richard K.Cook Dahlias used as headbands,..Read More