1810
- Robert Schumann is born in Zwickau on 8 June
1817
- First piano lessons with Johann Gottfried Kuntsch
1820–28
- Studies at the Lyceum
1825
- Foundation of a literary club
- Literary attempts
- Death of sister Emilie
1826
- Death of father August Schumann, who had planned to have his son instructed by Carl Maria von Weber (who also dies in 1826)
1827
- Reads Jean Paul
- Begins to keep a diary
