1782
Born on April 21 in Oberweißbach, Thuringia, the sixth child of Lutheran pastor Johann Jacob Fröbel and his wife Jacobine Eleonore Friedricke, maiden name: Hoffmann.
1783
February 7, death of mother.
1789 - 1799
Attended primary school in Oberweißbach and Stadtilm, completed training as land surveyor in Hirschberg an der Saale.
1799 - 1801
Studied Natural Sciences at the University of Jena.
1805 - 1806
Employed as a teacher at the Pestalozzi Model School in Frankfurt am Main; in autumn, first journey to Iferten (Yverdon) in Switzerland to train under Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.
1813
In April, volunteered for the Lützow Free Coprs and fought in the Napoleonic Wars.
1816
November 13, founded the General German Education Institute (Allgemeine deutsche Erziehungsanstalt) in Griesheim, Thuringia. School transferred to Keilhau in 1817.
1818
September 11, married divorcee Henriette Wilhelmine Hoffmeister in Berlin; the union was childless.
1823
40 pupils registered in Keilhau, Johannes Arnold Barop hired by Fröbel.
1826
Major written work "The Education of Man" (Die Menschenerziehung) published.
1830
Johannes Arnold Barop took over the leadership of Keilhaus.
1831 - 1835
Departure from Keilhau; leadership of various educational institutes and teacher training courses in Switzerland.
1837
Return to Bad Blankenburg and development of the educational toys "Fröbel's Gifts".
1839
Death of Henriette Wilhelmine; opening of the "Play and Activity Institute" (Spiel- und Beschäftigungsanstalt) in Bad Blankenburg.
1840
June 28, opening of the first General German Kindergarten (Allgemeinen Deutschen Kindergartens) in the Bad Blankenburg Town Hall.
1842
Training of kindergarten teachers in Bad Blankenburg.
1844
Closure of the kindergarten due to financial difficulties; return to Keilhau and the publication of the songbook "Mutter- und Koselieder".
1845 - 1849
Travelling to promote the concept of kindergarten.
1848
Presentation of kindergarten concept to a general meeting of some 260 educationalists in Rudolstadt, August 17-19. Application sent to central government in Frankfurt for support of Fröbel's Kindergarten. Demand for a universal educational system from kindergarten to secondary school.
1849
Relocation to Bad Liebenstein and the foundation of the "Facility for Holistic Life Practice through Developed and Nurturing Education" (Anstalt für allseitige Lebenseinigung durch entwickelnd-erziehende Menschenbildung). Training of women as kindergarten teachers.
1851
Married Luise Levin; August 23, kindergarten banned in Prussia.
1852
Died June 21 in Marienthal and buried in Schweina.