Chronology
In progress.
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2 September 1763 Caroline Albertine Dorothea Michaelis born in Göttingen
24 October 1764 Brendel Mendelssohn born in Berlin
8 September 1767 August Wilhelm Schlegel born in Hannover
21 November 1768 Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher born in Breslau
10 March 1772 Friedrich Schlegel born in Hannover
2 May 1772 Friedrich von Hardenberg born in Oberwiederstedt
31 May 1773 Ludwig Tieck born in Berlin
27 January 1775 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling born in Leonberg
28 February 1775 Sophie Tieck born in Berlin
1776–78 Caroline attends Madam Schläger’s boarding school in Gotha
Approx. summer 1777 (?) Johann Friedrich Blumenbach courts Caroline; a year later, the relationship has ended
Late 1780 Lotte Michaelis sent to attend Madam Schläger’s boarding school in Gotha to remove her from Pedro Hockel in Göttingen; meets August Kotzebue in Gotha
December 1781 Pedro Hockel leaves Göttingen
17 April 1782 Lotte Michaelis returns to Göttingen from Gotha
3 April 1783 Brendel Mendelssohn marries Simon Veit in Berlin
15 June 1784 Caroline marries Franz Böhmer in Göttingen, moves to Clausthal in the Harz Mountains (Caroline’s first marriage)
Early 1785 August von Kotzebue possibly sees Lotte Michaelis in Göttingen
April 1785 Charlotte Michaelis in Clausthal for Auguste’s birth
28 April 1785 Philippina Augusta (Auguste) Böhmer (Caroline’s first daughter) born in Clausthal
Ca. May 1785 Caroline’s parents in Clausthal after Auguste’s birth
Summer 1785 Caroline’s excursions likely include Katlenburg and Gittelde near Clausthal, where she visits her mother-in-law Henriette Philippine Elisabeth Böhmer, the latter’s daughter Louise, and Louise’s fiancé G.J.F. Meister
16 July 1785 Caroline and Auguste arrive in Göttingen for the first visit since Caroline’s wedding
25 August 1785, 10:45 p.m., Caroline and Auguste arrive back in Clausthal from their visit in Göttingen
19 September 1785 Caroline’s godson, Gustav Gotter, dies in Gotha
2 (or 3) October 1785 Marianne Heyne arrives to spend a month visiting Caroline in Clausthal
6 November 1785 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach picks up Marianne Heyne in Clausthal to take her back to Göttingen, spends a day with Caroline and Franz Wilhelm Böhmer
Easter 1786 Dorothea Schlözer travels to the Harz Mountains with her father; studies mining and tours the mines
Easter 1786 Christian Friedrich (Fritz) Michaelis appointed professor of medicine in Marburg
14 July—21 August 1785 Dorothea Schlözer, without her father, in Clausthal, staying at the home of Superintendent Georg Christoph Dahme
23 April 1787 Sophie Therese (Röschen) Böhmer (Caroline’s second daughter) born in Clausthal
Ca. autumn 1787 Caroline visits Göttingen
Christmas 1787 Fritz Michaelis in Clausthal
5 February 1788 Franz Böhmer dies in Clausthal (not 4 February as in Schmidt and Waitz)
20 July 1788 Johann Franz Wilhelm Böhmer (Caroline’s first son) born in Göttingen; dies presumably in September or October
Autumn 1788 (at latest) Caroline leaves Clausthal for Göttingen for the last time
Between 12 April (Easter ) and 31 May (Whitsun) 1789 (likely closer to the latter) Caroline, Auguste, and Therese (and Lotte?) depart Göttingen for Marburg, where they move in with Caroline’s brother Christian Friedrich (Fritz)
Autumn 1789 (?) Lotte Michaelis joins Caroline in Marburg, returns to Göttingen later but is then back in Marburg in December
17 (?) December 1789 Therese (Röschen) Böhmer dies in Marburg
April, May or June (“spring”) 1790 Caroline, Auguste, and Lotte visit Therese and Georg Forster in Mainz
Spring (late?) 1790 Caroline and Auguste return to Marburg
Summer, autumn 1790 Lotte remains in Mainz, has an aventure (Caroline) with Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring.
Early October 1790 Lotte possibly returns to Göttingen from Mainz with Johann Heinrich Grätzel, a neighbor of the Michaelis family in Göttingen (prompted by Therese Huber?).
30 November 1790 August von Kotzebue arrives in Mainz, leaves ten days later for Paris; apparently had planned to rekindle his romance with Lotte Michaelis on returning to Mainz in January 1791
30 December 1790 Philipp Michaelis receives his Dr. med. in Göttingen
Before 12 January 1791 (possibly October 1790) Lotte returns to Göttingen
At latest February 1791 Lotte Michaelis definitely back in Göttingen
Late July 1791 Caroline possibly already decided about moving to Mainz
22 August 1791 Johann David Michaelis dies in Göttingen
Autumn 1791 Caroline and Auguste back in Göttingen
Before late October 1791 Caroline and Luise Michaelis visit Gotha, where Josias Friedrich Löffler courts Caroline
December 1791 Caroline definite about moving to Mainz
Late February 1792 Caroline and Auguste arrive in Mainz
21 April 1792 Therese Forster gives birth to her fourth child, Georg, who dies on 23 or 24 July
3 June 1792 Lotte Michaelis marries Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Dieterich
Ca. 20 September 1792 Georg Ernst Tatter travels to Mainz to visit Caroline
Ca. 28 September 1792 Tatter leaves Mainz for Italy
Early October 1792 Caroline takes in Meta Forkel as a housemate
30 March 1793 Caroline and Auguste leave Mainz with Frau von Esebeck, Margarete Forkel, and Sophia Magdalena Wedekind
2 April 1793 Lotte Dieterich née Michaelis dies in Göttingen
The party is forced to turn around in Oppenheim, then detained in Hattersheim and taken under guard to Frankfurt, where they spend three days under house arrest
8 April 1793 The party is taken to the fortress Königstein and incarcerated
15 April 1793 Wilhelmine Luise Wedekind and her daughter Luise Dorothea Margerethe and Sophie Wedekind also arrested
June–11 July 1793 Caroline under house arrest in Kronberg (Kronenberg)
4 July 1793 the King of Prussia signs a rescript freeing Caroline
11 July 1793 Caroline receives word of the rescript
13 July 1793 Caroline and Auguste released
7 August 1793 Caroline in Lucka
3 November 1793 Wilhelm Julius Krantz (Caroline’s second son) born in Lucka
Early February 1794 Caroline and Auguste leave Lucka and travel to Gotha (from 8 February)
March 1795 Caroline and Auguste leave Gotha
1 April 1795 Caroline, her mother, and her brother sign an inheritance protocol in Göttingen
20 April 1795 Wilhelm Julius Krantz dies, buried on 23 April
April 1795 Caroline moves to Braunschweig
Summer 1795 Wilhelm Schlegel moves back to Germany
28 March 1796 Luise Michaelis and Christian Rudolf Wilhelm Wiedemann marry in Braunschweig
1 July 1796 Caroline and Wilhelm Schlegel marry in Braunschweig (Caroline’s second marriage)
8 July 1796 Caroline and Wilhelm Schlegel settle in Jena, initially in a “garden house” probably in the general area between the Löbder Gate and the Paradise greenspace
6 or 7 August 1796: Friedrich Schlegel settles in Jena in Wilhelm’s earlier apartment at Markt 23, “beim Kaufmann Beyer”
Early October 1796 Caroline and Wilhelm, and likely also Friedrich, move into the rear edifice at Leutragasse 5 in Jena
10 April 1797 Caroline, Auguste, and Wilhelm depart for Dresden
25 April 1797 Caroline’s review of several works by Friedrich Schulz appears in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung
20 May 1797 Caroline, Auguste, and Wilhelm return to Jena from Dresden
14 June 1797 Caroline’s review of several plays by Iffland appears in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung
Summer 1797 Friedrich Schlegel moves from Jena to Berlin
August 1797 Friedrich Schlegel and Brendel Veit become acquainted in Berlin
1797: 10–22 August, 24 August–5 September 1797: Novalis in Jena
1797 Publication of Schiller’s Die Horen 10,6 with Caroline and Wilhelm’s article on Romeo and Juliet
Christmas 1797 Luise and Cäcilie Gotter in Jena (till early February 1798)
Easter 1798 Athenaeum 1,1 (1798) appears with Caroline’s review of Lafontaine’s novels
24 April––4 May 1798 Caroline and Wilhelm Schlegel in Weimar to see Iffland
9 May 1798 Caroline, Auguste, and Johann Diederich Gries depart Jena for Dresden
12 May 1798 Caroline, Auguste, and Gries arrive in Dresden
after ca. 20 May 1798 Wilhelm Schlegel in Berlin with Friedrich
27–30 May 1798 Schelling in Jena for the first time, first meeting with Goethe and Schiller
30 June 1798 Schelling appointed professor of philosophy (extraordinarius) in Jena
30 June 1798 Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel arrive in Dresden from Berlin
July 1798 Athenaeum 1,2 appears
5 July 1798 Goethe informs Schelling of his appointment in Jena
mid-August 1798 Schelling departs Leipzig for Dresden
18 August 1798 Schelling arrives in Dresden
25–26 August 1798 Novalis in Dresden
August(?)/September 1798 Rahel Levin in Dresden
End of August 1798 – Friedrich arrives back in Berlin
2 or 3 October 1798 (?) Caroline arrives back in Jena
5 October 1798 Schelling arrives in Jena with Johann Diederich Gries
Early 1799 Ludwig Tieck in Dresden
Early March 1799 Athenaeum 2,1 appears with the essay “Die Gemählde,” containing Caroline’s descriptions of paintings and her material on Raphael
16 April 1799 Henriette Mendelssohn in Jena
Late May/early June 1799 Schelling begins taking his meals at the house of Caroline and Wilhelm Schlegel in Jena
17 June 1799 Novalis in Jena
21 June 1799 Novalis to Weimar to see Goethe
3 July 1799 Fichte arrives in Berlin
Early August 1799 Athenaeum 2,2 appears with Caroline’s review of Johannes Müller’s “Fragmente aus den Briefen eines jungen Gelehrten an seinen Freund”
Sunday, 1 September 1799 Friedrich departs Berlin for Jena
2–5 September 1799 Friedrich arrives in Jena
28–29 September 1799 Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) in Jena
6 October 1799 Dorothea arrives in Jena
15 October 1799 Hamlet performed in Berlin in Wilhelm Schlegel’s translation. F. J. Beschort performed the role of Hamlet, A. W. Iffland that of Polonius, and Friederike Unzelmann that of Ophelia.
17 October 1799 Ludwig, Amalie, and Dorothea Tieck arrive in Jena
11–15 November 1799 Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) in Jena
26 November 1799 Auguste returns to Jena from Dessau
December 1799 Fichte returns temporarily to Jena, where his family is still living
March 1800 Fichte and his family leave Jena permanently for Berlin
Late March/early April 1800 Athenaeum 3,1 appears
17 April 1800 Schelling in Weimar to take leave of Goethe before leaving for Bamberg on 2 May
ca. 1 May 1800 Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) in Jena for a short visit
2 May 1800 Schelling departs Jena for Bamberg
3 May 1800 Schelling arrives in Saalfeld
6 May 1800 Caroline and Auguste depart Jena for Saalfeld accompanied by Wilhelm
6 May 1800 Wilhelm stops in Weissenfels on his way to Leipzig, visits Friedrich von Hardenberg and spends an evening with Luise Brachmann
8 May 1800 Caroline and Auguste arrive in Bamberg accompanied by Schelling
15 May 1800 Auguste takes an excursion to Bug near Bamberg
26 May 1800 the cadjutor for the principality Bamberg is elected in Bamberg
30 May 1800 (at latest) Wilhelm Schlegel back in Jena after visiting Goethe in Leipzig
ca. 1 or 2 June 1800 Schelling departs Bamberg to return to his parents in Württemberg after his brother’s death in Genua
4 June 1800 Schelling presumably arrives in Schorndorf to visit his parents
4 June 1800 Auguste, Andreas Röschlaub, and the latter’s cousin take an excursion to a neighboring village
ca. 4 June 1800 Schelling and Caroline still trying, unsuccessfully, to rent a garden house in Bamberg
ca. 4 June 1800 Auguste takes a second excursion to Bug with Caroline, Röschlaub, and the latter’s cousin
7 June 1800 Caroline and Adalbert Friedrich Marcus visit the latter’s sister-in-law
8 June 1800 Caroline again unsuccessful in trying to rent their own accommodations in Bamberg
9 June 1800 Caroline and August plan to leave Bamberg for Bad Bocklet on 12 June
9 June 1800 Caroline receives a visit from Commerzienräthin Marcus
June 1800 Auguste involved in theater rehearsals in Bamberg (Nina)
ca. 12 June 1800 Caroline and Auguste depart Bamberg for Bad Bocklet
22 June 1800 at latest Caroline and Auguste in Bad Bocklet
29 June 1800 Schelling departs Schordorf after visiting his parents, departs Stuttgart at 6:00 p.m. for Heilbronn
30 June 1800 Schelling in Künzelsau on his way back to Bamberg from Schorndorf in Württemberg
July 1800 H. E. G. Paulus also in Bad Bocklet with his wife, Karoline, and daughter, Sophie
ca. 1 July 1800 Auguste falls ill in Bad Bocklet
ca. 4 July 1800 Schelling arrives in Bad Bocklet
6 July 1800 Schelling anticipates Auguste will soon recover and that they will be back in Bamberg on 12 July
12 July 1800 – Auguste dies in Bad Bocklet
16-19 July 1800 Caroline and Schelling return to Bamberg, initially staying in the hotel Bamberger Hof
20 July 1800 Wilhelm Schlegel, in Jena, learns of Auguste’s death
21 July 1800 Wilhelm Schlegel departs Jena for Bamberg
ca. 24 July 1800 Wilhelm Schlegel arrives in Bamberg; unclear where he and Caroline, on the one hand, and Schelling, on the other, resided until all three left in early October
4 August 1800 Wilhelm Schlegel, Caroline, and Schelling visit the Bamberg hospital
6 August 1800 Friedrich Schlegel accompanies Dorothea to Dornburg NE of Jena; she stays 12 days, he 1, possibly paying a clandestine visit to Sophie Mereau on 7 August in Camburg on his way back to Jena
ca. 19 August 1800 Friedrich and Dorothea back in Jena
prior to 21 August 1800 Wilhelm Schlegel visits Auguste’s grave in Bad Bocklet
22 August 1800 (at latest) the family of H. E. G. Paulus back in Jena from Bad Bocklet
August 1800 Athenaeum 3,2 appears (final issue)
14–20 September 1800 Johann Diederich Gries arrives in Bamberg
22 September 1800 Schelling sick for several days in Bamberg
28 September 1800 Rose, the maidservant, departs Jena to meet up with Wilhelm Schlegel and Caroline in Gotha
1 October 1800 Wilhelm Schlegel and Caroline depart Bamberg for Braunschweig
1 October 1800 Schelling departs Bamberg for Jena with Johann Diederich Gries
3 October 1800 Schelling and Gries arrive back in Jena
4 October 1800 Wilhelm and Caroline arrive in Gotha, travel thence to Braunschweig
October 1800 Friedrich and Dorothea move out of the house on Leutragasse and into a new apartment in the southeast corner of town on the Graben
18 October 1800 Friedrich Schlegel delivers his inaugural lecture in Jena
19 October 1800 Caroline, accompanied by C. R. W. Wiedemann travels to the Söder estate (arrives 5 p.m.), where Wilhelm Schlegel awaits her; they spend several days as guests of Friedrich Moritz von Brabeck
22 October 1800 Wilhelm and Caroline arrive back in Braunschweig
27 October 1800 Friedrich Schlegel begins lecturing in Jena
12 December 1800 Goethe to Jena
26 December 1800 Schelling returns to Weimar with Goethe
31 December 1800 Schelling dines with Goethe and Schiller in Weimar, then celebrates New Year’s Eve privately with them and Henrik Steffens
4 January 1801 Schelling returns from Weimar to Jena
January 1801 Hegel arrives in Jena
21 February 1801 Wilhelm departs Braunschweig for Berlin
21-22 February 1801 Schelling visits Goethe in Weimar
10 March 1801 August Ferdinand Wiedemann (born 2 August 1800), Luise Wiedemann’s son, dies in Braunschweig
14 March 1801 Friedrich Schlegel’s disputatio in Jena
24 March 1801 Schelling and Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer visit Schiller in Jena; after his final lecture in Jena, Friedrich hastens that night to Weissenfels, where Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) lies gravely ill
25 March 1801 Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) dies in Weissenfels; Friedrich Schlegel present
23 April 1801 Caroline returns to Jena with Luise Wiedemann
Spring 1801 Julie Gotter arrives in Jena to stay with Caroline, remains until March 1802
2 May 1801 Caroline and Schelling in Weimar for a performance of Don Juan, speak with Goethe in the theater
6 May 1801 Schelling meets with Goethe in Jena, goes riding, engages in extensive conversations
16 May 1801 Schelling attends performance of Schiller’s Wallenstein in Weimar with the Tübingen publisher Cotta
28, 29 May 1801 Schelling meets with Goethe in Jena
Late July 1801 Dorothea goes to Bad Bocklet with Philipp Veit after being ill; the Paulus family is also there
11 August 1801 Wilhelm arrives in Jena from Berlin
15 August 1801 Friedrich travels to Bad Bocklet to pick up Dorothea
Ca. 22 August 1801 Friedrich and Dorothea depart Bad Bocklet for Jena with H.E.G. and Karoline Paulus; arrival in Jena by 24 August at latest
31 August, 1, 8 September 1801 Wilhelm Schlegel visits Goethe in Weimar
19 September 1801 Friederike Unzelmann arrives in Weimar for eight successive guest performances beginning on 21 September
21 September 1801 Caroline, Wilhelm Schlegel, Luise Wiedemann, and Julie Gotter arrive in Weimar to attend Friederike Unzelmann’s performances; first performance is Maria Stuart; Luise Gotter also comes to Weimar with Cäcilie and Pauline Gotter
22 September 1801 Schelling meets with Goethe at midday; “grand tea” (so Goethe) for Friederike Unzelmann presumably also attended by Wilhelm Schlegel, possibly Caroline
1 October 1801 Schelling visits Goethe while Friedrich Tieck works on Goethe’s bust that morning; Schelling visits Goethe that afternoon as well; that evening performance of Lessing’s Minna von Barnhelm by Friederike Unzelmann
2 October 1801 Friederike Unzelmann departs Weimar; Caroline and Wilhelm arrive back in Jena at midday
19 October 1801 Schelling calls on Goethe in Jena
1 November 1801 Wilhelm Schlegel sees Goethe in Jena, reads his play Ion aloud to him while Friedrich Tieck continues work on Goethe’s bust
3 November 1801 Wilhelm departs Jena for Berlin
6 November 1801 Friedrich Schlegel calls on Goethe in Jena
8 November 1801 Schelling calls on Goethe in Jena
Late November 1801 Friedrich departs Jena for Berlin
1 December 1801 Wilhelm begins lecture series in Berlin
2 December 1801 Friedrich arrives in Berlin with Friedrich Tieck
26 December 1801 scheduled premiere of Wilhelm Schlegel’s play Ion in Weimar postponed
2 January 1802 Caroline and Schelling to Weimar for the premiere of Wilhelm Schlegel’s play Ion the same day; Schelling remains overnight with Goethe, returns to Jena the next day
23 January 1802 Schelling dines with Goethe in Jena
27 January 1802 Friedrich departs Berlin for Dresden, Dorothea departs Jena for Dresden; they meet up in Leipzig
4 February 1802 Friedrich and Dorothea in Dresden
20 February 1802 Schelling calls on Goethe in the evening
11 March 1803 Schelling calls on Goethe in the morning
13 March 1802 Schelling calls on Goethe in the evening
After 18 March 1802 Caroline travels to Berlin (via Braunschweig?); Julie Gotter returns to Gotha
Late April, early May 1802 Schelling travels to Berlin
15/16 May 1802 Ion performed in Berlin; Caroline and Schelling attend both performances with Wilhelm
19 May 1802 Caroline departs Berlin for Leipzig with Wilhelm and Schelling
21 May 1802 Caroline arrives in Leipzig with Wilhelm and Schelling
24 May 1802 Caroline departs Leipzig for Jena with Schelling, arriving that evening
24 May 1802 (evening) Caroline arrives in Jena and moves into a new apartment, almost certainly in the house of the tanner Eckardt in the northeast section of Jena next to the inn Schwarzer Bär, which later bore the address Lutherplatz 3; Caroline earlier refers to the house as the “Asverus house” after the previous lessee, Ludwig Christoph Asverus
29 May 1802 Schelling and Hegel (but not Caroline) attend the premiere of Friedrich Schlegel’s play Alarcos in Weimar
30 May 1802 Schelling and Hegel dine with Goethe in Weimar; Friedrich and Dorothea depart for Paris
4 June 1802 Schelling receives Dr. med. honoris causa from Landshut
13 June 1802 Wilhelm returns to Berlin via Dresden
26 June 1802 Caroline and Schelling see Goethe’s prologue Was wir bringen and the opera Titus at the opening of the new theater in Lauchstädt
27 June 1802 Caroline and Schelling see Friedrich Hildebrand von Einsiedel’s Die Brüder. Ein Lustspiel nach Terenz in fünf Akten in Lauchstädt
Late July 1802 Friedrich and Dorothea arrive in Paris
22 September 1802 Schelling calls on Goethe in Weimar; Wilhelm von Humboldt also present
13 October 1802 Wilhelm’s To the Public distributed in Jena
25 February 1803 Principal Conclusion of the Extraordinary Imperial Delegation assigns the bishoprics Würzburg and Bamberg to Bavaria
30 April 1803 Lawyers for Caroline and Wilhelm announce divorce to be granted on 17 May
17 May 1803 divorce granted for Caroline and Wilhelm
22 May 1803 Caroline and Schelling depart Jena for Murrhardt
spend two days in Bamberg
spend one day in Würzburg
29 May 1803 Caroline and Schelling in Stuttgart
30 May 1803 Caroline and Schelling arrive in Murrhardt
3–10 (15–19?) June 1803 Friederike Unzelmann guest performances in Stuttgart
June 1803 Hölderlin spends a day and a half visiting Schelling and Caroline in Murrhardt; Schelling: “the sight of him unsettled me”
26 June 1803 afternoon, Schelling’s father performs marriage ceremony for Caroline and Schelling (Caroline’s third marriage)
28 June 1803 Caroline and Schelling to Bad Cannstatt
June or July 1803 Schelling visits Heidelberg
4 August 1803 Caroline and Schelling return to Murrhardt
28 August 1803 Caroline and Schelling depart Murrhardt for Munich, by way of Stuttgart
Late August–3 September 1803 Caroline and Schelling in Stuttgart
3 September 1803 Caroline and Schelling travel to Tübingen
5 September 1803 Caroline and Schelling depart for Munich by way of Ulm and Augsburg
7 September 1803 Caroline and Schelling arrive in Munich
14 September 1803 Schelling learns of his appointment in Würzburg
24 September 1803 Caroline and Schelling depart Munich
29 September 1803 Caroline and Schelling arrive in Bamberg
10 October 1803 Caroline and Schelling arrive in Murrhardt by way of Landshut, Regensburg, Bamberg, Würzburg
31 October 1803 Caroline and Schelling depart for Würzburg
1 January 1804 Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung debuts
6 April 1804 Dorothea Veit converts to Christianity, weds Friedrich Schlegel in Paris
April 1804 Friedrich and Dorothea move from Paris to Cologne
2 May 1804 Wilhelm Schlegel leaves Weimar with Madam de Staël
8 May 1804 Wilhelm Schlegel arrives in Würzburg with Madam de Staël
ca. 24 June 1804 Hölderlin, accompanied by Isaak von Sinclair, visits Schelling and Caroline in Würzburg; last meeting between Schelling and Hölderlin
4 September 1804 Caroline and Schelling depart for Bamberg
Late October 1804 Caroline and Schelling return to Würzburg
18 March 1805 Caroline’s reviews of the travestied Nathan der Weise and a volume of poems by Wilhelm Calezki appear in the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung
6 May 1805 Caroline’s review of C. A. von Chamisso and K. A. Varnhagen’s Musenalmanach auf das Jahr 1805 appears in the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung
28 June 1805 Caroline’s review of Samuel Bürde, Poetische Schriften appears in the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung
11 February 1806 Caroline and Schelling’s reviews of eleven novels appear in the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung
19 February 1806 Caroline’s review of the Bibliothek der Robinsone and the Bibliothek des Romantisch-Wunderbaren appears in the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung
24 March 1806 Würzburg students bring Schelling an ovation
18 (17?) April 1806 Schelling leaves Würzburg for Munich
1 May 1806 Archduke of Tuscany enters Würzburg as new electoral prince
Tuesday, 20 (22?) May 1806 Caroline leaves Würzburg for Munich
Saturday, 24 May 1806 Caroline arrives in Dachau
Sunday (Pentecost), 25 May 1806 Caroline arrives in Munich
23 May 1807 Caroline’s review of Wilhelm Neumann [Karl August Varnhagen], Erzählungen und Spiele and Wilhelm Eulogius Meyer, Eros appears in the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung
July1807 Beate Gross’s (née Schelling) son, Friedrich, dies (Schelling’s nephew)
August 1807 Carl Friedrich von Rumohr in Munich, visits Caroline and Schelling
4 December Wilhelm Schlegel leaves Coppet with Madam de Staël
15–21 December Wilhelm Schlegel with Madame de Staël in Munich on their way to Vienna
December 1807 Caroline and Schelling vacate their apartment at Karlsthor 7 and move in with the Munich banker H. S. Pappenheimer (till April 1808)
April 1808 Caroline and Schelling move into a summer apartment “behind the art gallery no. 63 3/4 in the house of the court confectioner Dieterich”
18 April 1808 Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel convert to Catholicism in Cologne
13 May 1808 Schelling appointed general secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts
27 May 1808 Schelling receives civilian service award bestowing personal (non-hereditary) nobility
September 1808 Bettina Brentano arrives in Munich (till mid-1810)
13 October 1808 Ludwig Tieck leaves Vienna with Sophie Bernhardi
19 October 1808 Ludwig Tieck and Sophie Bernhardi arrive in Munich
late 1808 Carl Friedrich von Rumohr returns to Munich
ca. 16 April 1809 Friedrich Tieck arrives in Munich
18 August 1809 Caroline and Schelling depart Munich for Maulbronn
August 1809 Caroline and Schelling in Ulm, where they climb to the top of the cathedral
Before 28 August 1809 Caroline and Schelling arrive in Maulbronn
3 September 1809 Caroline falls ill in Maulbronn after a three-day walking tour with Schelling and others (possibly to Leonberg)
Thursday, 7 September 1809, 3:00 a.m. Caroline dies in Maulbronn
Saturday, 9 September 1809, 4:00 p.m. Caroline buried in Maulbronn, “behind the church, close to the rear wall.”
20 September 1809 Schelling leaves Maulbronn, spends several weeks in Stuttgart.
10 October 1809 Schelling visits Caroline’s grave in Maulbronn before returning to Munich
20 January 1810 Schelling returns to Stuttgart after falling ill in Munich
April/May 1810 Schelling in Maulbronn, possibly working on the dialogue “Clara”
Summer 1810 Ludwig Tieck leaves Munich
August 1810 Schelling visits Maulbronn from Stuttgart
8 September 1810 Beate Gross’s (née Schelling) son (Schelling’s nephew) dies and is buried in Maulbronn
October 1810 Schelling returns to Munich
August 1811 Philipp Michaelis dies
11 June 1812 Schelling marries Pauline Gotter in Gotha