Hannah Arendt, with her mother, Martha Arendt Beerwald, 1912. Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust.

1906, Oct. 14
Born, Hannover, Germany.

1928
Ph.D., Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.

1929
Published Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin (Berlin: Springer Verlag).

Married Günther Stern (divorced 1937).

1933
Moved to Paris, France.

1935-1939
Secretary general, Youth Aliyah, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Paris, France.

1938-1939
Special agent for rescue of Jewish children from Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Günther Stern and Hannah Arendt, ca. 1929. Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust.

1940
Married Heinrich Blücher (died 1970).

Sent to an internment camp, Gurs, France.

1941
Emigrated with her husband to the United States, and settled in New York, N. Y.

1941-1945
Journalist.

1944-1946
Research director, Conference on Jewish Relations.

1946-1948
Chief editor, Schocken Books.

1949-1952
Executive director, Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.

Hannah and Heinrich Blücher, New York, ca. 1950. Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust.

1951
Published The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace).

Became a United States citizen.

1952
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.

1953
Delivered Christian Gauss lectures, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

1954
National Institute of Arts and Letters grant.

1955
Visiting professor, University of California, Berkeley.

1956
Delivered Walgreen Foundation Lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

1957
Published Rahel Varnhagen, the Life of a Jewess; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston (London: Published for the Leo Baeck Institute by the East and West Library).

1958
Published The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

1959
Visiting professor, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

Hannah Arendt lecturing in Germany, 1955. Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust.

1960
Visiting professor, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.

1961
Visiting professor of humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

Published Between Past and Future (New York: Viking Press).

1961-1962
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.

1963
Published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Viking Press).

Published On Revolution (New York: Viking Press).

1963-1975
Professor and visiting lecturer, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

1967
Received Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.

1967-1975
University professor of philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, N. Y.

1968
Published Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World).

1969
Awarded Emerson-Thoreau Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1969-1975
Associate Fellow, Calhoun College, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

1970
Published On Violence (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World).

1972
Published Crises of the Republic (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).

Hannah Arendt, just prior to her death in 1975. Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust.

1972-1975
Member, Advisory Council of the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

1973-1974
Delivered Gifford Lectures, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland.

1975
Awarded Sonning Prize in Denmark.

1975, Dec. 4
Died, New York, N. Y.

1978
Posthumous publication of The Jew as Pariah, edited with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman (New York: Grove Press).

Posthumous publication of The Life of the Mind (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).

1982
Posthumous publication of Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, edited with an interpretive essay by Ronald Beiner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

1994
Posthumous publication of Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954, edited by Jerome Kohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.).

1996
Posthumous publication of Love and Saint Augustine, edited and with an interpretive essay by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).