I. TABLE OF DATES
(a) Pertaining to the Life of Comenius
1592. Born at Nivnitz, Moravia, March 28th.
1604. Death of his father and mother.
——. Entered the elementary school at Strasnitz.
1608. Entered the gymnasium at Prerau.
1611. Matriculated in the college at Herborn.
1613. Matriculated in the university at Heidelberg.
1614. Appointed teacher in the Moravian school at Prerau.
1616. Ordained as a minister, April 29th.
1618. Called to the pastorate of the church at Fulneck; also superintendent of schools.
1624. Marriage to Elizabeth Cyrrill.
——. Driven into the Bohemian mountains by religious persecutions.
1627. Banished from his native country.
1628. Fled to Poland; given charge of the gymnasium at Lissa.
1632. Consecrated as a bishop, October 6th.
1641. Called to England, arriving there September 22d.
1642. Left London, June 10th, for Sweden.
——. Settled at Elbing, Prussia, in October.
1648. Returned to Lissa; death of his wife; chosen president of the council (senior bishop), of the Moravian Church.
1649. Re-married, to Elizabeth Gaiusowa.
1650. Took charge of the schools at Saros-Patak, Hungary, in May.
1654. Returned to Lissa.
1656. Lissa burned; flight to Silesia.
——. Settled in Amsterdam.
1670. Died at Amsterdam, November 15th; buried at Naärden (Holland), November 22d.
(b) Principal Writings of Comenius
1616. Grammaticæ facilioris præcepta (Simple grammatical rules). Prague.
1617. Listowé do nebe (Cries of the oppressed poor). Olmütz.
1622. De Christina perfectione (On Christian perfection). Prague.
1623. Labyrint svéta a ráj srdce, to jest (Labyrinth of the world and paradise of the heart). Lissa.
1631. Janua linguarum reserata (Gate of languages unlocked). Lissa.
1633. Informatorium der Mutter-Schul (School of infancy). Lissa.
——. Atrium linguæ Latinæ (On the study of Latin style). Lissa.
1634. Physicæ ad lumen divinum reformatæ synopsis (Physics remodelled in accordance with divine light). Leipzig.
1638. Prodromus pansophiæ (Fragment of the Great didactic. Published in London, 1639, by Hartlib). Lissa.
1641. Via lucis (The way of light). Amsterdam.
1643. Pansophiæ diatyphosis, inconographica, et orthographica (Published in England in 1650 with the title: A pattern of universal knowledge). Danzig.
1647. Vestibulum Latinæ linguæ rerum (Vestibule of the Latin language). Lissa.
1648. Linguarum methodus novissima (New method of language study). Lissa.
1650. Lux in tenebris (Light in darkness—on prophetic visions). Amsterdam.
——. Scholæ pansophicæ delinætio (Plan of a pansophic school). Saros-Patak.
1656. Schola ludus (School dramas). Saros-Patak.
1657. Orbis sensualium pictus (The world illustrated). Nuremberg.
——. Opera didactica omnia (Complete didactic works in four volumes). Amsterdam.
1660. Historia fratrum Bohemorum (History of the Bohemian brethren). Amsterdam.
——. Cartesius cum sua naturali philosophia a mechanicis eversus (Descartes and his natural philosophy overthrown by arguments derived from mechanical principles). Amsterdam.
——. De natura caloris et frigoris (On the nature of heat and cold). Amsterdam.
1608. Unum necessarium (The one thing needful). Amsterdam.