| 1844 |
October
15. Borns Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.parents:
Karl Ludwig Nietzsche and Franziska Nietzsche. |
| 1846 |
July
10. Elisabeth Nietzsche born. |
| 1849 |
July
30. Karl Ludwig Nietzsche dies. |
| 1858 |
Nietzsche
begins school at Pforta. |
| 1867 |
October:
Nietzsche enlisted in Artillery regiment stationed in
Naumburg. |
| 1868 |
October:
Discharged from Army. |
| 1869 |
January:
Nietzsche appointed as professor at Basel University.
April:Becomes Swiss citizen and settles in Basel. May:
First meeting with Richard Wagner at Tribschen. |
| 1871 |
January:
Nietzsche applies for chair of philosophy at Basel. |
| 1872 |
November:
Visit with the Wagners in Strasbourg. |
| 1873 |
May:
Nietzsche begins to have eye trouble. Lectures without
notes.
July: Dictates "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" |
| 1874 |
March-September:
Works on Schopenhauer as Educator (Untimely Meditations
III) |
| 1875 |
March:
"We Philologists"
December: Nietzsche collapses Chirstmas day. |
| 1876 |
January:
Nietzsche released from teaching at Paedagogium.
February: Nietzsche stops teaching at University.
April: Visit to Geneva. Proposes to Mathilde Trampedach.
Finishes work on Wagner essay.
July: Nietzsche visits Beyreuth festival.August. Begins
work on "Human, All Too Human". Back to Bayreuth. Travel with
Paul Ree.
October: Ree and nietzsche stay in Sorrento with Malwida
von Meysenbug.
November: Nietzsche's final meeting with Wagner in Sorrento. |
| 1877 |
June-August:
Nietzsche works on "Human,All Too Human" and
denies allegiance to Schopenhauer.
September: Returns to Basel to finish "Human, All
Too Human". |
| 1878 |
August-September:
Nietzsche falls ill. Wagner attacks Nietzsche in the *Bayreuther
Blaetter*. |
| 1879 |
January:
Nietzsche's illness worsens.
May: Nietzsche resigns from the university.
June: he goes live in St. Moritz. |
| 1880 |
January-November:
Nietzsche works on "The Dawn", he dictates it
to Peter Gast |
| 1881 |
February:
"The Dawn" completed and sent to Gast .
July: Nietzsche goes to Sils Maria.
August:Nietzsche starts with the ideas for "Zarathustra"
and the conception of the eternal return. Material originally intended for
"The Dawn" is developed into "The Gay Science". |
| 1882 |
February
to march:the four books of "The Gay Science"
completed.Paul Ree arrives in Genoa.
May: Meets Lou Salome in Rome.
August: Lou comes to Tautenburg.
September: Lou goes with Ree, Nietzsche plans for the three
of them to live togethr in Paris. October: Lou,Ree,and
Nietzsche stay in Leipzig together.
Novemeber: Lou and Ree leave Nietzsche. |
| 1883 |
January.
"Zarathustra" Book 1 written.
February: Wagner dies.
October: Nietzsche settles in Nice for the winter. |
| 1884 |
January:
"Zarathustra" Book 2 finished.
July: Nietzsche to Sils Maria to work on "Zarathustra"
Book 3. |
| 1885 |
May:
Elisabeth Marries Bernhard Foerster.
June: Nietzsche begins "Beyond Good and Evil" |
| 1886 |
January:
Nietzsche completes "Beyond Good and Evil".
February: Elisabeth and Bernhard leave for Paraguay.Nietzsche
did not accep their invitationto join them.
August: "Beyond Good and Evil" published.October.
Nietzsche writes fifth book of "The Gay Science". |
| 1887 |
April-May:
Travels in Cannobio,Zurich,and Chur.
June: Nietzsche to Sils Maria. Works on "The Genealogy
of Morals". |
| 1888 |
April:
Nietzsche moves to Turin.May. Begins work on "The
Wagner Case".June. Leaves for Sils Maria. Begins
"Twilight of the Idols".
September. Finishes "The Wagner Case" and begins work on "The
Antichrist".
October: begins "Ecce Homo". |
| 1889 |
January:
Nietzsche collapses in the street in Turin. Overbeck comes
to Turin to escort Nietzsche back to Basel, where he undergoes
treatment.
January: Nietzsche's mother arrives in Basel. Nietzsche
travels to Jena for treatment.
June: Bernhard Foerster commits suicide. |
| 1893 |
September:
Elisabeth returns from Paraguay and begins work on the
Nietzsche Archive. |
| 1895 |
December:
Nietzsche's mother signs a document surrendering all rights
to Nietzsche work, opening the way for Elisabeth Nietzsche
to gain complete control over Nietzsche's works. |
| 1900 |
August
25. Nietzsche dies. |
