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Jacob Grimm born 4 Jan 1785 in Hanau died 20 Sep 1863 in Berlin Wilhelm Grimm born 24 Feb 1786 in Hanau died 16 Dec 1859 in Berlin |
| 1802-1803 | brothers study law in Marburg and start to collect fairy tales from the people of Hesse and surrounding regions including friends and relatives |
| 1806 | Jacob becomes secretary to the Hessian War Council in Kassel; Wilhelm passes jurisprudence examination in Marburg |
| 1808 | Jacob appointed royal librarian to Napoleon’s brother Jerome, King of Westphalia |
| 1812 | the Grimm Brothers publish their first volume of Children’s and Household Tales; this volume is made up of eighty-six stories and folktales |
| 1814 | Wilhelm appointed official librarian in Kassel |
| 1816-1818 | publication of German legends in two volumes |
| 1829 | brothers appointed respectively librarian (Wilhelm) and professor (Jacob) in Göttingen |
| 1837-1841 | the Grimm brothers join a formal protest against constitutional violation of Ernst August, king of Hannover. After being dismissed from their posts, they return to Kassel; begin work on the thirty-two volumes of "Deutsches Wörterbuch", a German Dictionary; accept appointments at Academy of Science in Berlin |
| 1846-1847 | Jacob chairs congress of Germanists in Frankfurt and Lübeck |
| 1848 | Jacob becomes Member of Parliament in first German National Assembly in Frankfurt and abandons teaching |
