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The oldest Grimm brother is born in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel.
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Wilhelm Grimm is born in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel.
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The Grimm family moves to Steinau.
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Jacob and Wilhelm were sent to Kassel for a better school education.
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Jacob studied law at the university in Marburg.
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Wilhelm joins Jacob at university studying law one year later.
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From 1806 they collected and wrote down fairy tales which they heard in Kassel and its surroundings
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In 1812 the Grimm brothers published their first volume of fairy tales
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In 1814 the second volume was published that contained seventy stories
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In 1825 Wilhelm married Henriette Dorothea Wild.
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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm worked as librarians and professors at the university of Göttingen.
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The first edition of the German Mythology was published.
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In 1838 they began the work on the thirty-two volumes of a German dictionary, which focuses on history.
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The King of Prussia invited the brothers to Berlin.
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Within the next ten years the Grimms resigned from their teaching at the university of Berlin and devoted their time to the completion of the dictionary.
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Jacob Grimm was elected into the Frankfurt National Parliament
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Wilhelm Grimm diesin Berlin of an infection.
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Jacob Grimm dies in 1863.
