SCHEDULE OF GOETHE'S LIFE. 



Date 



Age 



Biography 



Contemporary 

 Events 



1749 



to 

 1759 



1 



to 

 10 



Born at Frankfurt. His father was 

 near 40; his mother not 18. He 

 was not sent to any school. 



George II. 

 Frederick the Great 

 Voltaire. 

 Handel. 

 Franklin. 



1759 



to 

 1769 



10 



to 

 20 



A studious home life. Keen zest for 

 study. 



Went to Leipsic at 16 ; already a 

 linguist. 



Three years a student at Leipsic. 



Seven Years' War. 

 Battle of Quebec. 



1769 



to 

 1779 



20 



to 

 30 



Entered at Strasburg University to 

 study Law. Wrote " Gotz von 

 Berlichingen " and " The Sorrows 

 of Werther," 1774. Visited Swit- 

 zerland ; settled at Weimar, 1775. 



George III. 

 Peace of Paris. 



1779 



to 

 1789 



30 



to 

 40 



Residing at Weimar. 



A Privy Councillor. 



Travelled in Italy. Wrote " Eg- 



mont" and " Iphigenie." 

 Met Schiller. 



Louis XVI. (1774). 

 Lessing died, 1781. 

 Rise of Methodism 

 in England. 



1789 



to 

 1799 



40 



to 

 50 



Second visit to Italy. " Faust" and 

 " The Metamorphoses of Plants." 



Director of the Court Theatre, 

 Weimar. 



"Wilhelm Meister" and "Her- 

 mann and Dorothea." 



American Indepen- 

 dence. Death of 

 Frederick the Gt. 

 and of Chatham. 

 Storming of the 

 Bastille. 



1799 



to 

 1809 



50 



to 

 60 



Residing at Weimar. 

 Intimate with Schiller. 

 Married 1806. 



He accompanied the Prussian Army 

 and was present at the Battle of 

 Valmy. 



Execution of Louis 



XVI. (1793). 



Reign of Terror. 

 Napoleon. 

 Death of Pitt. 



1809 



to 

 1819 



60 



to 

 70 



Residing at Weimar. 

 Investigations on the nature of 

 colour. 



" Dichtung und Wahrheit." 



Retreat from Mos- 

 cow. 

 Death of Watt. 



1819 



to 

 1829 



70 



to 

 80 



Residing at Weimar. 



" Wilhelm Meister Wanderjahre." 



Knight of Grand Cross of Bavaria. 



George IV. 



Death of Napoleon 



and of Alexander 



I. of Russia. 



1829 



to 

 1832 



80 



to 

 83 



Died at Weimar, aged 83. 

 (Goethe died a few years before the 

 Accession of Queen Victoria.) 



William IV. 

 Louis Phillipe. 



Lessing, Goethe's great predecessor, "The Luther of German literature," was 

 exactly twenty years his senior. He died when Goethe was 32. 



