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| 1800 |
France Prešeren is born (3. 12. 1800)
in Vrba, in Gorenjsko.
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| 1808 |
in the autumn, Prešeren goes to Kopanj
near Velika Račna, where his great uncle Jožef is a priest.
Uncle Jožef teaches France himself, until he starts going
to school.
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| 1810 |
Prešeren enrols at the elementary school
in Ribnica in Dolenjsko, where he stays until spring 1812,
finishing both school years with distinction.
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| 1812 |
in the autumn, he enrols in the third
year of elementary school in Ljubljana.
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| 1813 |
in Ljubljana, he attends secondary school,
finishing in 1819.
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| 1819 |
he enrols for philosophy at the Ljubljana
lyceum.
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| 1821 |
he finishes the third year of philosophy
in Vienna, this being a precondition for enrolling to
study law.
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| 1822 |
he enrols at the Faculty of Law at the
University of Vienna.
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| 1824 |
during the holidays, he returns home
for the first time; he visits his uncles, who work as
priests in various parishes around Slovenia.
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| 1825 |
he writes his first poem, Zarjovena
d'vičica, (The Rusty Virgin).
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| 1825-26 |
he starts getting more seriously involved
in poetry, writes quite a number of poems, but burns most
of them because of Kopitar's stern criticism.
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| 1826-27 |
finishing his law studies.
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| 1827 |
(12th January) - Prešeren's first published
poem Dekletom (To Girls) appears in the newspaper Ilirski
list (Illyriches Blatt - The Illyrian Sheet)
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| 1827 |
Prešeren's mentor Matija Čop returns
to Ljubljana from Poland, and becomes a librarian.
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| 1828 |
(26th March) - Prešeren completes all
the formalities, and the next day is made a Doctor of
Law.
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| 1828 |
he spends some time in Moravia, with
his former pupil.
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| 1828 |
(1st September) - he is employed as
a trainee by the lawyer Dr Leopold Baumgarten.
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| 1829-31 |
Prešeren also works as an apprentice
at the Ljubljana tax office.
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| 1829-32 |
the poet is friendly with Marija Johana
Khlun from Graz; even though this is a serious and initially
reciprocal love, Prešeren later withdraws for reasons
that are not quite clear.
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| 1830 |
the first volume of Kranjska čbelica
(The Carniolan Bee) appears, in which Prešeren's translation
of the poem Leonora, his ballad Povodni mož (The River
Man) and the poem Slovo od mladosti (A Farewell to My
Youth) are published.
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| 1831 |
the publication of the second volume
of Kranjska čbelica, with Prešeren's Ljubezenski soneti
(Love Sonnets), Nova pisarija (The New Writing) and the
romance Hčere svet (The Daughter's Advice).
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| 1831-34 |
he works as a trainee in the office
of the lawyer Dr Baumgarten.
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| 1832 |
he prepares for his legal examination
in Klagenfurt and only just passes the exam.
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| 1832 |
his first application for an independent
legal practice is submitted and rejected.
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| 1832 |
the publication of the third volume
of Kranjska čbelica, with some new poems by Prešeren.
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| 1833 |
Matija Čop publishes in Ilirski list
the translation of the review of Kranjska čbelica written
by the Czech literary critic and poet Čelakovsky, who
praises Prešeren's poems.
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| 1833 |
(6th April) - in the church in Trnovo,
Prešeren meets Julija Primic, the daughter of a rich Ljubljana
merchant. The poet's love for Julija marks his personal
and poetic fate for the rest of his life.
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| 1834 |
the publication of Sonetni venec (A
Wreath of Sonnets), which he dedicates to Julija, by means
of an acrostic. The young lady, and particularly her mother,
are not too pleased.
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| 1834 |
Prešeren is employed by Dr Blaž Crobath,
for whom he works until he moves to Kranj in 1846.
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| 1834 |
the publication of the fourth volume
of Kranjska čbelica.
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| 1834 |
Prešeren applies for legal practice
for a second time and is rejected again.
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| 1835 |
Matija Čop drowns whilst swimming in
the Sava near Tomačevo.
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| 1835 |
the poet publishes Krst pri Savici (The
Baptism by the Savica) himself.
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| 1837 |
two Polish political exiles, Emil Korytko
and Boguslav Horodinyski, arrive in Ljubljana. In Korytko,
Prešeren finds a kindred spirit and a good friend.
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| 1837 |
the poet meets fifteen-year old Ana
Jelovšek, with which he later has three children out of
wedlock.
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| 1838 |
the poet's father Šimen dies in Skaručna.
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| 1838 |
Korytko prepares a collection of Slovene
folk songs for publication. Prešeren helps him, particularly
with the language.
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| 1839 |
Emil Korytko dies of typhoid in Ljubljana.
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| 1839 |
the marriage of Prešeren's unrequited
love Julija Primic.
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| 1839 |
the birth of Prešeren's first daughter,
Rezika, who dies in 1840.
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| 1839 |
Prešeren frequently socialises with
his old friend and schoolmate, Andrej Smole, after the
latter returns to Ljubljana following a long stay abroad.
Together, they plan publications of literature in Slovene
and even a Slovene newspaper.
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| 1840 |
Andrej Smole has a stroke at the dinner
celebrating his name-day. He dies in Prešeren's arms.
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| 1840 |
the rejection of the poet's third application
for a legal practice.
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| 1841 |
Prešeren falls in love again, his love
is not reciprocated and he has another poetically productive
period. His muse this time is Jerica Podboj, the daughter
of the innkeeper Metka Podboj; the poet spends a lot of
time in Pekel (The Inferno), Metka's inn.
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| 1842 |
Mina Prešeren, the poet's mother, dies.
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| 1842 |
the birth of Prešeren's second child,
Ernestina Jelovšek. Her memoirs of her father, published
in 1903, are a valuable, albeit not the most reliable,
source of research into and understanding of the poet's
life and work.
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| 1843 |
the poet writes Nezakonska mati (The
Unmarried Mother).
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| 1843 |
Kmetijske in rokodelske novice (The
Farming and Crafts News) begins to appear. The editor,
Janez Bleiweis, does not invite Prešeren to contribute.
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| 1843 |
Prešeren's fourth application for a
legal practice is rejected.
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| 1844 |
Prešeren writes Zdravljica (A Toast).
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| 1846 |
his fifth application for a legal practice
is rejected, too.
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| 1846 |
Prešeren hands a manuscript of Poezije
(Poems) to be censored.
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| 1846 |
the poet submits his sixth application
for a legal practice - this time, not for one in Ljubljana,
but in Kranj or Postojna.
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| 1846 |
the censor approves the publication
of Poems.
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| 1846 |
Prešeren is granted a legal practice
in Kranj.
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| 1846 |
in October, the poet moves to Kranj,
where he starts his independent legal practice.
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| 1846 |
in December, the Poems by Dr France
Prešeren are printed, the key literary work of the time
and of Slovene literature in general. 1200 copies are
printed, bearing the year 1847, and the book sells relatively
well for those days.
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| 1848 |
Novice publishes Zdravljica.
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| 1848 |
a revolution in Vienna. The poet actively
involved with the national defence in Kranj.
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| 1849 |
France Prešeren dies in Kranj, of cirrhosis
of the liver.
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| 1849 |
(10th February) - the poet is buried
solemnly in Kranj, and at the wake, a committee is founded
to organise a monument in his memory.
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| 1852 |
Prešeren's remains are moved to what
is the central part of the Kranj cemetery and a monument
is erected on his grave. Bleiweis gives a speech, and
a choir sings Levstik's poem On Prešeren's Grave, set
to music by Gregor Rihar.
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| 1944 |
the Slovene national freedom council
proclaims the 8th of February as a Slovene national cultural
holiday.
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| 1947 |
the first Prešeren awards for cultural
and artistic achievements are presented.
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| 1992 |
the Bank of Slovenia issues a 1000 tolar
bank-note, on which there is an image of Dr France Prešeren,
which comes into circulation in 1992.
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| 1994 |
with the coming into force of the law
on the coat of arms, the flag and the anthem adopted by
the Slovene National Assembly, Prešeren's Zdravljica becomes
the official Slovene anthem.
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