CHRONOLOGICAL ABSTRACT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF FROEBEL, AND THE FROEBEL COMMUNITY. * * * * * 1770. June 24th.--Birth of Christian Ludwig Froebel. 1780. Sept. 17th.--Birth of Friedrich Froebel's first wife, Henriette Wilhelmine Hoffmeister, at Berlin. Christian Froebel's wife, Johanna Caroline Muegge, was also born in 1780, on August 28th. 1782. April 21st.--_Birth of Friedrich Froebel_, at Oberweissbach, Thuringia. 1792. Froebel is sent to Superintendent Hoffman in Stadt Ilm. Sept. 3rd.--Birth of Heinrich Langethal, at Erfurt. 1793. Sept. 20.--Birth of Wilhelm Middendorff, at Brechten, near Dortmund, in Westphalia. 1797. Froebel is sent to Neuhof in the Thuringian Forest to learn forestry. 1799. Froebel returns home; goes thence as student to Jena. 1801. He leaves Jena (having closed his career there with nine weeks' imprisonment for debt), and soon afterwards begins to study farming with a relative of his father's at Hildburghausen. Dec. 29th.--Birth of Albertine Froebel (Madame Middendorff), eldest daughter of Christian Froebel. 1802. Death of Froebel's father. Froebel becomes Actuary to the Forestry Department of the Episcopal State of Bamberg. 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.