| 1755 |
Removal to Leipzig |
| 1767-1770 |
The young Samuel Hahnemann attends the Grammar School in Meissen |
| 1770-1775 |
He attends the Meissen Prince's School of St. Afra |
| 1775-1776 |
Study of Medicine at Leipzig |
| 1776 |
Studies for one semester at Vienna University, followed by assistantship under Joseph Quarin, Physician-in-Ordinary to the Empress Maria Theresia (Hahnemann: "To Quarin I owe everything which may be called physician about my person") |
| 1777-1779 |
Private physician and librarian |
| 1780 |
Hahnemann settles down and sets up for the first time a practice in Hettstedt (Saxony) as a physician |
| 1781 |
Practice pharmaceutical training at the "Mohren-Apotheke" in Dessau |
| 1782 |
Marriage to Henriette Küchler, adopted daughter of the owner of the "Mohren-Apotheke": eleven children issued from this union
Hahnemann accepts a physician's practice at Gommern (Saxony) |
| 1784 |
Stay at Dresden, principally for work in the medical/chemical field: first independent publication, entitled "Directions for the Complete Cure of Old Wounds and Indolent Ulcers" |
| 1786 |
Publication "On Arsenic Poisoning" |
| 1789 |
Removal to Leipzig |
| 1790 |
Hahnemann translates Cullen's "Materia Medica" from the English original Trials with Cinchona (Pennian Bark) by self-experimentation As a result, Hahnemann initiates a series of trials on different drugs |
| 1793-1799 |
Publication of the "Apotheker-Lexikon" (drug index and handbook for apothecaries) |
| 1793-1801 |
Hahnemann moves successively through various German towns, including Göttingen, Brunswick, Wolfenbüttel, Altona, Hamburg, Mölln |
| 1796 |
First definition of the Simile Principle (Similia similibus curentur) in an essay in Hufeland's Journal entitled "Essay on a new Principle for Ascertaining the Curative Powers of Drugs and Some Examinations of the Previous Principles": this makes 1796 the year of the birth of homoeopathy |
| 1801-1803 |
Practice in Eilenburg |
| 1803-1804 |
Practice in Wittenberg and Dessau |
| 1805-1811 |
Practice in Torgau |
| 1805 |
"Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum positivis in sane corpore observatis" (Notes on the positive powers of drugs observed in the healthy body--a summary of Hahnemann's experience with the drugs personally tested up to that time). Publication of "Aeskulap auf der Wagschale" (Aesculapius in the Balance) |
| 1806 |
Hahnemann published his "Medicine of Experience" (viewed as the precursor of his Organon) |
| 1810 |
"Organon der rationellen Heilkunde" (Organon of rational Healing), in later editions entitled the "Organon of the Healing Art" |
| 1811-1821 |
Hahnemann in Leipzig.
On June 26, 1812, he submits his dissertation for a professorship with the title "Dissertatio historico-medica de Helleborismo veterum": he starts his lectures in the Winter Semester of 1812. "Reine Arzneimittellehre", (Materia Medica Pura), 6 volumes |
| 1821-1835 |
Medical activities as a physician in Köthen. He is elected Privy Councillor by Duke Ferdinand of Anhalt-Köthen in May 1822, thus becoming Physician-in-Ordinary to the Ducal Court |
| 1828 |
The first edition of "Chronic Diseases" appears (final edition in 5 volumes) |
| 1829 |
Foundation of the German Central Society of Homoeopathic Physicians (Deutscher Zentralverein homöopathischer Ärzte) |
| 1830 |
Death of Hahnemann's first wife.
Cholera epidemic starts reaching Europe. Above all Hahnemann recognizes (a premonition of later bacteriological discoveries) the agency of "the most minute animals of a low order" |
| 1832 |
Foundation of the General Homoeopathic Journal (Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung)--the oldest German medicaljournal still appearing periodically |
| 1835 |
Hahnemann's marriage with Melanie d'Hervilly and removal to Paris; he starts practising as a physician |
| 1843 |
Hahnemann dies on July 2 and is buried in the cemetery of Montmartre, his remains later being removed to the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery. |
