The life of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831)

By michael.gilbertson

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born in Stuttgart

  • Ludwig van Beethoven is born

  • American War of Independence Begins

  • U.S. Declaration of Independence was approved.

  • American forces defeat the British army at Yorktown, Virginia.

  • Treaty of Paris was signed (ended the American Revolutionary War)

  • Fredrick the Great dies

  • French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Dies.

  • Louis XVI is guillotined.

  • Period: to

    Hegel teaches at the University of Jena

  • Territorial reform of the German states by Francis II.

  • Period: to

    First Napoleonic Wars

    Great Britain declared war on France until Napoleon abdicates and exiled to Elba.

  • Immanuel Kant dies.

  • Britain defeats French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar

  • Battle of Jena (Napoleon defeates Prussia).

  • Hegel's The Phenomenology of Mind is published.

  • Hegel marries Marie Helena Susanna von Tucher

  • Brother Georg Ludwig dies in Napoleon’s Russia Campaign

  • Hegel's The Science of Logic is published.

  • The War of 1812 begins.

  • U.S. and Britian signs Treaty of Ghent.

  • Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) defeats Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo

  • Period: to

    Hegel teaches at the University of Heidelberg

  • Period: to

    Hegel teaches at the University of Berlin

  • Karl Marx is born.

  • Hegel's The Philosophy of Right is published.

  • Illegitimate son, Ludwig, dies with Dutch Army in Indonesia

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel dies in Berlin

  • Hegel dies in Berlin.

  • Carl von Clausewitz dies (cholera) Poland

  • Hegel's The Philosophy of History is published.