Nov. 29th.—­Birth of Johannes Arnold Barop, at Dortmund, in
       Westphalia.

1803.  Froebel goes to Bamberg, and takes part in the governmental land
       survey, necessary upon the change of government, Bamberg now
       passing to Bavaria.

1804.  He takes, one after the other, two situations as secretary and
       accountant of a large country estate, first, that of Herr von
       Voeldersdorf in Baireuth, afterwards that of Herr von Dewitz in
       Gross Milchow, Mecklenburg.

       July 11th.—­Birth of Emilie Froebel (Madame Barop), second
       daughter of Christian Froebel.

1805.  Death of Froebel’s maternal uncle, Superintendent Hoffman. 
       Froebel determines to become an architect, and sets out for
       Frankfurt to study there.  Becomes, however, teacher in the Model
       School at Frankfurt, on Gruner’s invitation.  Visits Pestalozzi,
       at Yverdon, for a short time.

1807.  He becomes tutor in the family of Herr von Holzhausen in the
       suburbs of Frankfurt.

1808.  He goes to Pestalozzi at Yverdon with his pupils.

1809.  He draws up an account of Pestalozzi’s work for the Princess of
       Rudolstadt.

1810.  Froebel returns to Frankfurt from Yverdon.

1811.  He goes to the University of Goettingen.

1812.  He proceeds thence to the University of Berlin.

1813.  Froebel, Langethal, and Middendorff enlist in Luetzow’s regiment
       of Chasseurs, a volunteer corps enrolled to take part in the
       resistance to Napoleon’s invasion of Prussia.

1814.  Jan. 5th.—­Birth of Elise Froebel (Madame Schaffner), Christian’s
       youngest daughter.

       After the Peace of Paris (May 30th, 1814) Froebel is appointed
       assistant in the Mineralogical Museum of the University of
       Berlin, and takes his post there in August.

1816.  Nov. 13th.—­Froebel founds his “Universal German Educational
       Institute” in Griesheim.

1817.  Transference of the School to Keilhau.  Arrival of Langethal and
       Middendorff.

1818.  First marriage of Froebel.

1820.  Christian Froebel arrives at Keilhau with his wife and daughters
       Froebel writes “To the German people.”

1821.  Froebel publishes (privately) “Principles, Aims, and Inner Life
       of the Universal German Educational Institute in Keilhau,” and
       “Aphorisms.”

1822.  He publishes the pamphlets “On German Education, especially as
       regards the Universal German Educational Institute at Keilhau,”
       and “On the Universal German Educational Institute at Keilhau.”

1823.  He publishes “Continuation of the Account of the Educational
       Institute at Keilhau.”

1824.  He publishes the pamphlet “Christmas at Keilhau.”